Back in business at the portal » Albuquerque Journal

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Native American artists returned to selling their wares beneath the portal at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe on Friday for the first time in more than a year.

The Native American Artisans Portal Program was suspended last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

While food vendors and other artists have reappeared at Santa Fe’s historic Plaza in recent weeks, Native American jewelers such as Allen Bruce Paquin of Jemez Pueblo didn’t get the OK to return to the portal until Friday. It was a happy day for the artisans, who have been cut off from a source of income since March 2020. And it was a day when friends, such as Lorraine Martinez of Kewa Pueblo and Patricia Anderson, Cochiti/Navajo, could renew…

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