Wed, May 27
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Steven L. Davis, Beating Heart of the World: The Taos Art Colony, the Pueblo Resistance, & Battle for Indigenous America
The fascinating true story of how Taos Pueblo’s Indigenous people recruited members of the famous Taos art colony to help spark a movement for Native justice that reshaped the nation.
Date, Time & Location
May 27, 2026, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Order Beating Heart of the World: The Taos Art Colony, the Pueblo Resistance, and the Battle for Indigenous America online from CW ($29.95, hardcover, publishes May 26) or call the store to order.
When the first white artists arrived in Taos by horse-drawn wagons, centuries of military conquest and brutal government policies had pushed Indigenous people to the brink of collapse. New Mexico’s pueblos had become some of America’s last holdouts of traditional culture, resolutely preserving their sacred lands in the face of mounting pressure.
Many of the free-spirited newcomers in Taos came to admire the pueblos’ peaceful, communal societies and holy regard for the natural world. To these outsiders, pueblo civilization offered a marked contrast to America’s record of endless war, hyperindividualism, and environmental destruction.
Among those attracted to Taos was the “Queen of Bohemia,” a wealthy New York heiress…