Restoring the Pueblo

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(SUNfoto by Kristin McFarland) Kelsey Medina, 19, stands before a ruined horno outside her family’s home in an Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo plaza. Medina’s mother, Christy, said she used to tell children not to play inside the then-functioning traditional oven, but in the five years the Medinas’ home has stood vacant, the horno has deteriorated as much as the house.

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By Kristin McFarland
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    When Tomasita Duran, director of the Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority, was told that a complete rehabilitation of housing on the Pueblo’s 400-year-old plazas was impossible, it gave her the strength to make it happen.     After five years of…

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