Members of the Jemez Pueblo perform the closing song of the 2013 Nizhoni Days Pow-Wow at Johnson Field on Sunday afternoon. American Indians from as far as Alaska and New England came to Albuquerque to participate in the free powwow, hosted by the UNM Kiva Club.
Pawnee and Cheyenne Native Irene Edwards shows off her handmade traditional Southern Cheyenne clothing at the 2013 Nizhoni Days Pow-Wow at UNM’s Johnson Field on Sunday afternoon. The powwow, unlike the traditional Gathering of the Nations at The Pit, is free, and views the dances as a celebration instead of a competition
UNM security employees, Sara Vigil, left, and Jorge Del Valle stand over a pile of pre-owned bicycles to be auctioned Tuesday morning. The bikes were abandoned at bike lock-ups around campus at the end of the fall semester and sold for anywhere between $5 and $85. The auction was a part of the 2013 UNM Sustainability Expo & Lobo Growers Market on the Cornell Mall.
A member of the New Mexico State Forestry Division monitors smoldering brush after an afternoon bosque fire burned about three and a half acres of bosque and a small bit of private land in the South Valley directly south of Rio Bravo. Heath Weekooty, incident commander at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and captain of the Southern Pueblos Agency, said the fire started when a mattress ignited due to an unextinguished warming fire in a transient camp Monday at around 2 p.m.
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