Honoring Our Elders: Taos Pueblo Snowballs and Smokey Bear THURSDAY, NOV. 17 | Doors open at 5 PM BATAAN HALL | 121 CIVIC PLAZA DRIVE SMOKEY Taos Pueblo elder Adolf Samora will tell his story of being a young firefighter in the early days of the Taos Pueblo Snowballs, and the rescue of a baby bear from the Capitan Mountain fire who survived to become the iconic Smokey Bear. Local youth and natural resources professionals will kick off questions about conservation NM TAOS MEAM M For more information: Chenoa Velarde, velardet@unm.edu or Karen Loveless, kloveless@unm.edu CATE Celebrate our elder's story with a community dinner provided throughout the event. Featured talk begins at 6 p.m. ANCE CON NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Event is FREE and open to the public. Presented by UNM-Taos, Climate Change Corps, and Emerging Indigenous ******* Ecologists. LOR FOUNDATION TAOS LAND TRUST Honoring Our Elders : Taos Pueblo Snowballs and Smokey Bear THURSDAY , NOV . 17 | Doors open at 5 PM BATAAN HALL | 121 CIVIC PLAZA DRIVE SMOKEY Taos Pueblo elder Adolf Samora will tell his story of being a young firefighter in the early days of the Taos Pueblo Snowballs , and the rescue of a baby bear from the Capitan Mountain fire who survived to become the iconic Smokey Bear . Local youth and natural resources professionals will kick off questions about conservation NM TAOS MEAM M For more information : Chenoa Velarde , velardet@unm.edu or Karen Loveless , kloveless@unm.edu CATE Celebrate our elder's story with a community dinner provided throughout the event . Featured talk begins at 6 p.m. ANCE CON NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Event is FREE and open to the public . Presented by UNM - Taos , Climate Change Corps , and Emerging Indigenous ******* Ecologists . LOR FOUNDATION TAOS LAND TRUST