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Founded in 1932, the Department of Painting and Design, or “Studio,” at the Santa Fe Indian School was the first official, government-run boarding school program to promote pictorial paintings based exclusively North American Indian arts and culture. It was yet another program designed to bring about the assimilation of Indians into the economy and society of American, but progressive influences had introduced a change in orientation to Indian Policy by the beginning of the 1930s; instead of demeaning Indian cultures by demanding cultural assimilation, a beneficent stance was adopted that promoted them and their assimilation as American Indians into the ethnic diversity of society. As the Studio experience unfolded, it became a unique art world in which Indian artist-students from various cultures and non-Indian educators and patrons engaged in a cross-cultural effort to carry forward ancient Indian decorative arts to shape what became know as traditional modern American Indian painting. But the Studio also became a forum in which its young artists engaged in a cross-cultural search for an American art and identity with their non-Indian educators and patrons. As such, the Studio is a unique social microcosm for studying the nature and formation of the modern American identity of both its young Indian artists and of it non-Indian progenitors. This v study will examine the personal and collective identities that arose through this cross- cultural interaction during the formative years of the Studio – the tenure of its first “guide,” Dorothy Dunn, from 1932-1937. In order to gain a fuller understanding of the concept of identity formation, individual members of that art world are prominently portrayed against the background of BIA education policies concerning indigenous arts and the Studio’s unique historical position in that regard. A selection of 150 Studio paintings is examined to detect ways in which the artist-students chose to depict themselves and their cultures, i.e., their identities. And on that score, the Studio artist- students expressed themselves and their cultures, however marginal they were then and now to American society, and they shared with the non-Indians a new understanding of how they both were Americans. / text

A study of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico (1821-1832) during the Mexican period through the transcription and translation of selected manuscripts in Spanish made available on microfilm by the State of New Mexico Records Center is the primary intent of this research. The dissertation contains photocopies of the microfilm frames, transcriptions and translations of the frames, and annotations to the translations of the eight documents selected. It also contains suggestions about transcribing and translating these manuscripts to help other researchers to unlock the door to the wealth of information contained in these archives.Chapter I provides historical information about Mexico on the eve. of her independence from Spain and relates the structure of the political system to New Mexico, a territory of Mexico.Chapters II-VI contain photocopies of eight documents, the Spanish transcriptions of the documents, and annotated English translations. In these five chapters new or more precise information is gained about persons prominent in Santa Fe, the territory of New Mexico, and the Mexican republic. New light is shed on the activities of Anglo-American traders and trappers involved in affairs in northern Mexico. Especially clarified is the operation of the system of justice and the politics of the municipality and the territory. The functional level of municipal political structure is revealed. The work of the municipal, territorial, and national governments with respect to international trade on the far frontier is shown.Chapter VII sums up the findings revealed in the documents and concludes that the need for more transcriptions and translations of these archives to add to the limited information_ available for the history of New Mexico, 1821-1846, is evident from the richness of this limited selection of the documents.

Thesis--University of Florida. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-127).

The purpose of this study was twofold: First, to analyze two methods of teaching mechanical drawing in the seventh grade by conducting an experiment to determine by which method the greatest amount of achievement was obtained by the students in the ability to visualize, sketch, letter, and understand three-view drawing; and second, to recommend a work plan and certain teaching techniques for teaching mechanical drawing in the seventh grade of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Junior High School, based upon the method by which the greater amount of achievement was indicated in the study.

New developments often lack regional identity and distinctiveness of place. Before the industrial revolution, landscapes were the result of social, cultural and environmental constraints. Currently, a strong sense of place is lacking in many American cities. Santa Fe, New Mexico, as an example, faces the challenge of integrating new development with existing historic areas. While the downtown central core of Santa Fe has a distinctive and unique character, the outlying fringes of Santa Fe County are being developed in ways that undermine the sense of place that is valued by its residents and visitors. Current county development patterns do not meld with the intimate, small-scale character of the older neighborhoods in the downtown central core areas of the city. To address this issue, this thesis uses theory related to sense of place to identify distinctive characteristics that can be adapted for projects outside Santa Fe's central core. The study uses a mixed method approach, including a literature review and field study methods to assess Santa Fe's distinctive physical characteristics. The results are a set of contemporary community design guidelines for the Santa Fe, New Mexico region that address sense of place in the following categories: (a) Spatial Planning and Architecture: street design characteristics and their physical relationship to architecture; (b) Environmentally Responsive Architecture: architecture design characteristics that respond to the regional environment and Santa Fe Style; (c) Decorative Architectural Details: architectural detail design characteristics that respond to the regional vernacular and the Santa Fe Style; (d) Integration of Architecture and Landscape: open space design the physical relationship between the local landscape and architecture; and, (e) Landscape and Cultural Character: regional landscape and art design characteristics that respond to Santa Fe's environment and culture. The resulting design principles are expressed as guidelines to support sense of place and their application to new development in Santa Fe County. / Master of Landscape Architecture

The relationship between social experience and action in the context of recurrent disasters is often thought of in terms of adaptation. This study problematises this assumption from an anthropological perspective by analysing the memoryscape that mediates past experiences of disasters. The inquiry is based on translocal and transtemporal ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2004-2011 in the flood-prone city of Santa Fe in Argentina. The study examines how past flooding is remembered by flood victims in the middle- and low-income districts and by activists of the protest movement that emerged in the wake of the 2003 flood. It deals with flood memory in the local bureaucracy, in local historiography, myths and popular culture. The analysis reveals that the Santafesinian flood memoryscape is dynamically configured by evocative, reminiscent and commemorative modes of remembering, which are expressed in multiple forms, ranging from memorials and rituals to bureaucratic documents, infrastructure and everyday practices. The study addresses the relationship between memory, morality and social inequality and discusses the implications for questions regarding vulnerability, resilience and adaptation.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the overland trade with northern Mexico as international trade, to analyze its unique role in the economic development of both New Mexico and Missouri, and to evaluate the influence of Mexican gold and silver on the economic development of Missouri. The economic development of the United States between the beginning of the Revolution and the Civil War was attended by uncertainty, risk, and experimentation. The United States was exceedingly poor in specie, had almost no liquid capital, and its international credit rating was not well established. The United States currency system was based on paper money in contrast to that of New Spain and Mexico.Chapter I discusses the vagaries of a paper currency system, especially when the young nation was trying to establish its international credit rating, fight a war with England, and develop a wilderness on its western frontier. The problems were made more difficult because citizens of the United States lacked not only financial experience, but also adequate liquid capital. Mexico, however, had gold and silver ores and the capacity to mint coin. Northern Mexico was handicapped by Spanish commercial policies; until independence in 1821, it had little industrial capacity and almost no mercantile facilities. Chapter II provides an overview of New Mexico in 1820. Taken together, these two chapters show the mutual economic benefit to be derived by both New Mexico and Missouri from the development of the trade.Chapter III is a detailed chronological study of the events of the first decade of the trade between Santa Fe and Missouri. It brings together into one place the most up-to-date information on the participants in the trade from 1820-1830. Comparisons are made between the Anglo-American sources and the Spanish-American records; an effort is made to fill in as many gaps as possible and to check the accuracy of both sets of records. In this chapter the chief participants in the trade are studied.Chapter IV studies the nature of banking, credit, and currency problems in Missouri. It shows the tendency of people on the frontier of the United States to resort to experimentation in their efforts to deal with deflation, recession, and depression. Particular emphasis is given the panics of 1819 and 1837. The chapter also shows the effects in St. Louis of rapid growth and inflation. The unique role of Mexican gold and silver in the establishment of Missouri finance is studied. Between 1830 and 1840, as Chapter V shows, the merchant-capitalists of St. Louis replaced the farmer-merchants of the period 1820-1830, and the exchange of trade goods for Mexican specie and bullion increased steadily. The specie flow to Missouri reversed the usual United States frontier economic condition. Missouri accumulated enough liquid capital to launch St. Louis into position of "the Gateway to the West" as the great movement of people to California and Oregon began in the 1840's.In Chapter VI, a comparison of coin in circulation in the United States and coins minted by the United States correlates with the specie flow from Mexico to Missouri. The data vindicates the thesis that the key to St. Louis' financial success in the early years of Missouri's statehood lay in its trade with northern Mexico which resulted in the accumulation of the most valuable of all commodities, gold and silver specie and bullion.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas State University--San Marcos, 2009. / Vita. Appendices: leaves 133-163. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 16-20, 52-53, 87-91, 116-119, 130-132). References in more than one sequence of leaves. Also available on microfilm.