San Juan Pueblo News

As part of The Turkish Coalition of America's ongoing efforts to expand educational exchanges between the United States and universities in Turkey, TCA is sponsoring a Native American Lecture Tour in November.

In the spring of 1605, a band of 30 Spanish soldiers set up camp amid the groves of pine and juniper at the base of a stunning mesa of golden sandstone in west-central New Mexico.

Researchers are answering questions about much of the water diverted to acequia irrigation is lost to seepage and evaporation and what the benefits of acequia systems are to the hydrology of the surrounding areas.

Photo: Gov. Don Pedro de Peralta on horseback statue on Federal Place west of the Post Office.

Some of the events listed below require tickets. For information, call SWAIA at 983-5220. Today 8:30-10 a.m.: Breakfast with the Curators: Talk by Bruce Bernstein, Ph.D. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo.

Photo: Artwork created by their families hangs above Ramoncita Sandoval, left, and Geronima Montoya.

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization today called for restrictions on press freedom to be lifted in Honduras, where President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales was ousted by the military last month.

An unidentified gunman shot and killed Honduran journalist Gabriel Fino Noriega on Friday in the town of San Juan Pueblo, according to local press reports.

Poor old Sandino must be rolling in his grave. And he probably has the company of Simon B through the long mites, bemoaning "oh what has become of our wonderfull fevolution.

Photo: Excavations under way in 1962 at San Gabriel, site of New Mexicoa TMs second capital near San Juan Pueblo.

Photo: Tiwa Pueblo drummers and chanters back up buffalo dancers carrying rattles.