Alex Seowtewa named 2011 Ceremonial ‘Living Treasure’
Muralist Alex Seowtewa sits in front of a photograph of the mural on the south wall of the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Mission at his home in Zuni on Jan. 13. Seowtewa has spent several decades painting the new crumbling mural. Independent file photo.

By Bill Donovan
Independent correspondent

GALLUP — Alex Seowtewa’s life for the past 40 years has been a “labor of love” and this labor has garnered an honor — being named a Living Treasure by the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association.

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