As part of the public launch of Native Bound Unbound, a centralized digital archive of Indigenous slavery, this workshop will introduce the organization’s project and the broader history of Indigenous enslavement across the Americas. Participants are invited into dialogue, memory, and story by bringing in photographs, objects, family trees, or other materials connected to their personal histories.

The event is open to the wider community, with a particular warm welcome to descendants and families from Abiquiú and surrounding areas, as well as to people from Indigenous and tribal communities throughout the region — including nearby Pueblos, along with Jicarilla Apache, Ute, and Navajo communities — and to all who carry connections to these lands, their histories, and their living stories.

El Pueblo de Abiquiú Library & Cultural Center is located at 29 County Road 187, Abiquiú, NM 87510.

FREE! No RSVP required.

Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the executive director of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery, an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, leading a global team in the goal to document Indigenous/Native slavery across the Western Hemisphere. Trained as an anthropologist, historian, and Indigenous slavery scholar, Dr. Rael-Gálvez has served as the former Senior Vice President of Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and as the state historian of New Mexico. A native son of New Mexico, Estevan was raised on a farm and ranch stewarded by his family for multiple generations. He received his BA in English Literature and Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MA and Ph.D. in American Cultures from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he completed an award-winning doctoral dissertation, the basis of a current book project.