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Reservations open to WHA members on June 18, 2025. Room rates at the Clyde Hotel are $149/night. The WHA has a small block of discounted rooms at $109/night  for *WHA student members only* (the staff will review these reservations to ensure eligibility). Non-members will gain access to the room block on July 15, 2025. 

WHA MEMBERS: RESERVE YOUR ROOM STARTING JUNE 18

The Clyde Hotel

330 Tijeras Ave NW

Albuquerque, NM 87102

1-800-619-5632

The WHA's 2025 conference will be held at The Clyde Hotel in the heart of Albuquerque's Civic Center. Learn more about the hotel and its amenities through this link. 

WEDNESDAY (10/15)

Acoma Pueblo

Wednesday, October 15, 9:00 A.M. | Meet in Clyde Hotel lobby at 8:45

Accessibility: : A shuttle van takes the participants from the visitor center to the top of the bluff, and those who wish to walk down will have time to do so. A shuttle van is also available for those wishing to take it back down. The walk through the Pueblo village on top of the bluff is on dirt roads and is not strenuous. Acoma weather in October is typically cool.

Cost: $85 | Transportation: Bus shuttle will be provided | Capacity: 54

This tour focuses on the history of Acoma Pueblo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America, built atop a sheer-walled, 367-foot sandstone bluff in a valley studded with sacred, towering monoliths. In 1629, construction began on the massive San Estévan del Rey Mission, a Catholic mission church. Participants will take a short bus ride to the top of the bluff where a member of Acoma Pueblo will lead a tour of the village and its iconic church, showcasing the history and enduring heritage of the Acoma people, with time at the end to peruse exhibits in the Haak’u Museum. 

A sack lunch will be provided for attendees. The shuttle will arrive back at the conference hotel by 4:30 P.M.

Bosque Redondo

Wednesday, October 15, 8:00 A.M. | Meet in Clyde Hotel lobby at 7:45

Accessibility: : The Bosque Redondo tour is inside and outside. If attendees want to walk around outside and visit the old site and the shrine, about 1/4 mile away from the main building, they may do so. Ft. Sumner weather in October is cool.

Cost: $85 | Transportation: Bus shuttle will be provided | Capacity: 52

This tour takes visitors to the Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, which was officially opened in June 2005. The memorial focuses on the 1863 forced relocation and incarceration of Navajo (Diné) and Mescalero Apache (Ndé) peoples onto the Bosque Redondo reservation. Set against the political and historical backdrop of the US Civil War and its associated military campaigns in the US West against Native peoples, this violent episode in US history is commemorated today by the Memorial. Participants will make the journey from Albuquerque to Bosque Redondo with Diné historian Jennifer Denetdale, who will offer a Diné-based history of the place. 

A sack lunch will be provded for attendees. The shuttle will arrive back at the conference hotel by 5:00 P.M.

THURSDAY (10/16)

Native Albuquerque/New Mexico

Thursday, October 16, 12:15 P.M. | Meet in Clyde Hotel lobby at 12:00

Accessibility: The Maxwell Museum is wheelchair accessible and the location is indoors and climate controlled. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center section of the tour is also partly indoors and climate controlled. The walk to nearby 4H Park is about 7-8 minutes from the IPCC building on city sidewalks.

Cost: $70 | Transportation: Bus shuttle will be provided | Capacity: 54

This tour focuses on the history of Native New Mexico and the legacies of US colonialism in two parts: a focus on livestock reduction and Navajo resistance through the work of non-Native photographer Milton Snow at the Maxwell Museum, and a focus on the legacy of the Albuquerque Indian School at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. It will begin at the Maxwell museum, where the Navajo (Diné) curator Jennifer Denetdale will guide participants through an exhibit of Milton Snow’s photographs (with food served by Diné caterer Cleo Otero), and will continue at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, where Ted Jojola (Isleta Pueblo) will speak about the larger legacy of the Albuquerque Indian School, and docent Joe Sabatini will lead a tour of the Albuquerque Indian School Cemetery at nearby 4H Park.

Tasting New Mexico

Thursday, October 16, 12:15 P.M. | Meet in Clyde Hotel lobby at 12:00

Accessibility: The Agricultural Center is accessible. The tour is not strenuous, but is on dirt (crusher fine) paths. Attendees may wander off the more accessible paths if they wish to explore.

Cost: $70 | Transportation: Bus shuttle will be provided | Capacity: 54

This tour explores the rich culinary history of New Mexico’s Indigenous and Hispano peoples. We will travel to the Agricultural Center in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, located just across the road from Los Poblanos. Upon arrival we will have lunch catered by a local chef, while also having a cooking demonstration on local foodways. After lunch, Willy Carleton, Agricultural Program Director, will lead a tour through the Center’s acres of projects and programming. We will conclude with a Panel, “A Critical Celebration of New Mexico’s Chile Pepper.”

Cultural Roots and Historical Routes

Thursday, October 16, 1:00 P.M. | Meet in Clyde Hotel lobby at 12:45

Accessibility:  The Gutiérrez Hubbell House and National Hispanic Cultural Center are ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible. There will be some outdoor walking at the Gutiérrez Hubbell House.

Cost: $50 | Transportation: Bus shuttle will be provided | Capacity: 52

This tour will introduce participants to the Latina/o/x history of New Mexico, focusing on the South Valley of Albuquerque. It will start at the historic Gutiérrez Hubbell House, a stopover on the Camino Real in the colonial era and managed today as a focal point for community building and area pride. We will then drive north by bus through the South Valley, with local speakers introducing us to La Plazita Institute, a grassroots organization focused on Latina/o/x youth, cultural restorative justice, and sustainability, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, which is hosting the Voces del Pueblo exhibition co-curated by Ray Hernández-Durán, UNM Professor of Art. Throughout, we will focus on the ways that generations of local activism and community engagement have uplifted and centered cultural identity in the present rather than the colonial past.

Piedras Marcadas Pueblo/Coronado Battle

Thursday, October 16, 1:00 P.M. | Meet in Clyde Hotel lobby at 12:45

Accessibility: The Piedras Marcadas Pueblo hike is short, a little over half a mile round trip, and is not strenuous. It does involve walking on sand and so wheelchairs cannot access the site. Visitors are able to use a cane or walking staff for assistance but a walker may be difficult due to vegetation.

Cost: $50 | Transportation: Bus shuttle will be provided | Capacity: 30

This tour focuses on the immediate post-contact history of Piedras Marcadas Pueblo, the largest intact ancestral village of the Southern Tiwas in the middle Rio Grande valley. Covering almost 10 acres and featuring over 1,000 ground-floor rooms and several hundred upper-story rooms, the site was occupied from approximately 1300 AD until around 1600. It was the focal point of a major battle between the Vázquez de Coronado expedition and its Mexican indio allies, who fought against Tiwa defenders during the Tiguex War of 1540-1541. The tour will focus on the material evidence of that skirmish.