Journal of the Southwest articles from June 2004

Journal of the Southwest archives from June 2004

Publishing the Southwest.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2004... The last issue of Journal of the Southwest celebrating the Emil Haury centennial (volume 46, number 1) contains several errors, including instances of omitted figures that were referenced, misspellings of names, and a minor factual error--in...

Introduction: the William P. Clements Center for Southwest History.(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... All of the essays in this special issue of the Journal of the Southwest came from the pens of former fellows of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Dallas may not be included in...

Food choice and social identity in early colonial New Mexico.
June 22, 2004... In 1601, three years after Spain established the colony of New Mexico, one settler described the land as "sterile, lacking in everything necessary to support human life" (Hammond and Rey 1953: 688). In 1669, Franciscan priest Juan Bernal again...

The origins of Navajo pastoralism.
June 22, 2004... Long ago, when the Holy People still roamed the earth, Changing Woman created livestock to reward the Hero Twins for ridding the world of evil. She then traveled to her permanent home, an island in the Pacific on the edge of the earth and sky....

The construction of Anglo-American identity in the Republic of Texas, as reflected in the Telegraph and Texas Register.
June 22, 2004... The Telegraph and Texas Register appeared in the worst of times and the best--the worst in that war plus the natural hazards of the pioneer press made its survival improbable, and the best in that the same war gave it, if it did survive, a rare...

The ghosts of frontiers past: making and unmaking space in the borderlands.
June 22, 2004... Many Americans imagine the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a land that time forgot, a wild, unsettled place where "renegades" and "bandits" such as Geronimo and Pancho Villa have simply given way to newer barbarians: mercenary narcotraficantes,...

An artists' home: gender and the Santa Fe culture center controversy.
June 22, 2004... In the spring of 1926 the writer Mary Austin went on a tirade. Such behavior was not uncommon for Austin, but within weeks she had allies as esteemed as the satirist Sinclair Lewis. Austin's target was a proposal for a summer Chautauqua...

Land, culture, and sovereignty in the Pueblo Dance Controversy.
June 22, 2004... In November 1922, the Council of All the New Mexico Pueblos issued "An Appeal to the People of the United States" in protest against the Bursum Bill, then under debate in Congress. The Bursum Bill was intended to settle longstanding title...

Travels in the American Southwest.
June 22, 2004... On the licence plates in New Mexico it reads: 'The Land of Enchantment.' And that is it, by God! There's a huge rectangle which embraces parts of four states--Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona--and which is nothing but enchantment,...