¡Colores!; 2628; Historian Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez, Historian Paul Hutton, Beadwork Artist Teresa Melendez, Natura Obscura

Funding for COLORES was Frederick Hammersley ...and Viewers Like You ♪♪ NEW MEXICO HISTORIAN DISCUSSES THE COMPLEXITY WITH AN ABIDING LOVE HISTORIAN PAUL HUTTON INTERTWINED LIVES OF SEVEN FANCIFUL SHAWL DANCER ELABORATE REGALIA FOR AN IMMERSIVE, NATURA OBSCURA INSPIRES IT'S ALL AHEAD ON COLORES! ♪♪ STORIES OF PLACE. So when last time we were

about how stories I, you know I I think of Aristotle who wrote that of all beings and here is classical thinker who understand that place is the people that live there ecosystem right I so as I of Costilla and Cuesta was, my dad is a And an and also So, place is alive and so everything on it in I think of all of those Western writer to Costilla, New Mexico and

think about our place Mhmm. How do stories fit into ourselves in the world? May I pick up my computer along the way here? Please do. We are going into my uhh but actually flip it this is my adorable as I call him and... This is my house. And I'm gonna tell I I I wanna, is This is great! Yeah. I as I think of the actually writing my book

and I've chosen to particular individuals, ancestor who wove this by telling her story I'm about the place that sh- it, the the place that she her Diné Navajo family and in her childhood she was ended up living the rest So I think about the place on the Navajo Nation with think about how Abiquiu I think about how her children So these three places definitive in our in in

that reflects her as us, as an enslaved the the stories of grandchildren and her That is so amazing that I know, in many ways it in terms of recovering people, of of indigenous and children of this captured and enslaved and So this is and in a in stories like this. Another great grandmother, every time I visited her told the same story of Pananaw, a Pawnee and

sort of imbued in me as inspiration for my lifelong What is the challenge A friend of mine, Arsenio said we The first is when we the second is when we're when we um, when we the last time across challenge is remembering their stories and so I was uh, the state the archive it was an just open that vault and of the stories crying out

loved just opening up those files and finding and trying to remember trying to tell them Of all these stories what that really matter? The most important stories are Umm those that are mentioned the archive I documents were mostly governors, by by men, children, they weren't weren't written by the so for me I dedicated my stories even if it's just figuring out a way to and tell those stories

And could those stories understanding of who Absolutely, I, you know as think about what stories gives us only a glimpse at when we find the story of the Spanish flu or we find who lived till she was umm and surviving slavery that story tells us more stories that get imagined reflecting about this. What is your approach to By listening. I, my grandmother told me are those who learn

So I have spent my life as into the villages, understanding that that into multiple generations greatest challenges the time to sit down at a bread and listening Every story is SEVEN ICONIC CHARACTERS. Welcome to Colores we are Paul Hutton, welcome Paul. Thank you great Great to have you. Know last time we spoke the characters who drive can you tell us a little characters and why they Some of them are

Uh- Daniel Boone, uh Davy nots not so much. Red Eagle, man named the leader of the Creek that took place at the same Uh, Kit Carson so famous Mangas Coloradas, the Sitting Bull, the leader the last great resistance then Buffalo Bill Cody, final character who is everything that builds his story cause it's Cody lives the Wild West the then creates a show takes world and helps to really on the United States you cowboy and cowboys and for the land, and a big his story was always

Do you see it as a heroic It is a heroic story but with tragedy and interestingly characters uh. Ends fairly tragically and unhappy at the end. Now a part of that is you not as happy as you were is a beautiful thing. But uhh but except Uh every story is tinged kind of what uh, the story It's this incredible uh determination and obstacles to build Mhm. And uh, boy I believe that of heart that that this we don't think about it usually it's the Oklahoma or Wounded Knee, the 1890 that's used as the

but Buffalo Bill takes for another twenty years. Mhm. Uhh, but so the West ends Pearl Harbors People who saw the end of Pearl Harbors So this the epic of the expansion westward and over the world there was the American West in the coming in, Hispanics of but all sorts of everywhere, especially resources of the West story builds a nation prepared to take on the century but it has a vision is a vision that we had a lot these days in crisis that we're in right things before we'll beat this Well it's that story of

story of the West that ourselves and maybe you too self-assured, we're with ourselves as But on the other hand. On the other hand you know, and um the history Mhmm. And so one of the things what I'm writing now is well how How do you celebrate the and the heroic deeds How did you settle Well some of their lives was that was an important certainly the white national celebrities, were the heroes of twentieth century America. The native characters

although certainly Sitting Buffalo Bill was in his course Sitting Bull in his Wild West Exactly. Yeah your head will figure all this stuff out about that, uhh... but you know uhh, Buffalo Carson knew Mangas Umm and their lives uh you American Moses who takes Cumberland Gap and Revolutionary era. Uhh and then he finds no he's created in Kentucky uhh, uh Missouri where he course for James Fenimore character and the Sure. Davy Crockett is the next parents actually were I mean his grandparents Wars that Boone was Crockett becomes a

hunter in the West and as the Indian Wars and as new West, a political the Massachusetts, had dominated uh, politics politically and culturally country from the Tidewater Appalachians with the rise Houston, Henry Clay, he, he brings the values of and this this pioneer central character uhh, of mark, he can't really world, he flees it, he time of course for the dies at the Alamo sets up uh which Kit Carson is in first as a mountain man Trail, settling in New in Hispanic, prominent

Which character are you with the most? Well Davy Crockett is the West did so indeed uh, of think he would be the one dinner with you know, you "who would you want Davy Crockett. If you had dinner with hear about is Really? Yeah but Crockett I think a spellbinding storyteller think he would be the values that he hero of the common man, his political career is even though he's famous opposes Andrew Jackson on stands up in Congress destroys his political his constituents they can going to go to Texas well know which place was worse wound up in Texas at And uh indeed from his

being the hero of the martyr to manifest America will overreach spread its institutions Why are these seven us to know about? They tell the story of the the story of who we are Americans and exactly what American but you can't Davy Crockett and Kit American you have to also of of Red Eagle and Mangas and Red Eagle makes his onrushing Anglos but And they they die as uh way of life, a way of life of course in many ways,

Americans into the West. SYMBOLISM AND TRADITION. My favorite form of I really enjoy beading. I find it relaxing. I enjoy thinking about the materials that I wanna use, I also really enjoy making it's functional artwork. Beadwork is a form of American artwork. So anywhere around the tribal nations you'll see I've been making beadwork And usually when I design beadwork it's for use ceremonies or Powwows. So I'm a Powwow dancer, I like to dance jingle and time to time too.

But my kids and I, we of the beadwork that I make is So when I'm coming up with first start with the So I'm really thinking designing for and the use the look that I like to lay everything then I'll translate that sew it down to the pattern to work with. And then I just Beadwork is incredibly As you look at these you know that each one of Artists will have And so I like to put on back through two. Every single bead is least once but sometimes how they tack it down. And so the larger pieces,

of hours of man time. I would say one of my beading is watching the you have this vision. And a lot of times your the final product but And so it's fun watching but actually seeing the the designs come together, it provides me a lot of gonna be like, "Two more complete "and I can finally ♪♪ When I make for really So my husband and I got I wore a traditional wedding, and then my Payu outfit for And then our daughters pieces also. My 14-year-old, her name And so you'll see in those image of a rose.

And then Pasitiva our wild iris, and so there's And then in my bandolier different flowers that There's a flower that flower, and then my And there's a hummingbird And then going up the straps So Busceppi, his I beaded a red star-like ♪♪ One of the pieces I I made when I graduated I went to Michigan The medallion's in the a little sash across with sociology and then I graduated with a So it's common in things like that that are specific to the individual

All my beadwork that It feels good to wear because I know it comes I know that there's a lot pieces but I also think Americans that we see the here and who've Here in Nevada there are That's a lot of tribes. That's a lot of tribes. Most states don't have Sometimes when we think and indigenous arts we history, something that's that's not current. There's all kinds of being done by artists they're capitalizing on It's beautiful to see art art 'cause what's indigenous is AUGMENTING REALITY.

♪♪ - Immersive art, to me, completely envelopes the there's visual obviously, there could be scent. Working with Prismajic, we immersive project, we knew nature, so we partnered about 30 other - Prismajic is immersive mission is to harness the how people look at Natura Obscura is big, feet, you wanna imagine have paid as much installing art above as So now you're sort of physically And then we'll layer other

- We had to use a variety projection mapping, technology, sensor-based in front of the sensor, - The augmented reality compliments the exhibit, understand, it had to be honesty, we don't want menus when they should So, augmented reality gave to allow these characters have a dialog with the - [Eric] And since most preformed inwards, that's - What makes this exhibit it allows you and it

There's a certain beauty with the piece is their So some people will find certain It brings that - Technology will really future of the arts. When it's done right-- - lot of people. - They'll feel a sense of wonder ♪♪ TO VIEW THIS AND OTHER New Mexico PBS dot org and What We Do and Also, LOOK FOR US ON "UNTIL NEXT WEEK, THANK ♪♪ Funding for COLORES was

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