A presentation tracing the Navajo people from their Athabaskan roots through their migration to the American Southwest will be held Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. at Historic Old San Ysidro Church.
Raymond Sisneros, an educator and local historian based in Cuba, N.M., will lead the free public presentation as part of the 2026 Corrales Historical Society Speaker Series.
The presentation will examine the Navajo migration from Canada and Alaska to the American Southwest between 1000 and 1500 A.D. Sisneros will discuss how the tribe established a lifestyle of hunting and gathering while adopting agricultural techniques from their Puebloan neighbors and adapting to the arid landscape.
The introduction of sheep complemented the Navajo’s semi-nomadic lifestyle and contributed to the development of their weaving traditions, according to the presentation description…