Calvin Smith Collection projectile points.

Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark and Museum and Eastern New Mexico University are located on the traditional homelands of the Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ), Mescalero Apache, Lipan Apache (Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa), and Kiowa (Gáuigú) peoples, whose presence on this land extends from the past into the present. We acknowledge and honor these communities and express our gratitude for the opportunity to live, work, and learn on their ancestral lands. This acknowledgement calls us to continue learning from the histories and knowledge of Indigenous peoples and to be thoughtful stewards of the land we share.