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About the company
Sabinita Development, LLC, is a limited liability company, registered in the state of New Mexico. Sabinita Development, LLC is a family owned
concern. Stephen Wall and Fragua-Cota are its members. Stephen Wall is the managing member of Sabinita Development, LLC. Sabinita Development is a 100% American Indian owned business. Sabinita Development is the
vehicle for Sabinita Consulting, a firm that specializes in facilitation, strategic planning, and group process. Sabinita Studios, which markets artwork by Laura Fragua-Cota and Stephen Wall
is hosted in this website as is Sabinita Properties
Stephen Wall, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe/ White Earth, has been involved with American Indian tribal governments and
tribal courts for 30 years. He has served as a tribal prosecutor (Mescalero Apache Tribe) for 9 years and as chief tribal judge (Mescalero Tribal Court) for almost two years. Stephen has also served as Behavioral
Health Coordinator for the Tohono O’Odham Health Department. Over the years he has participated in a variety of projects nationwide relating to tribal governments, tribal courts, intergovernmental relations and
community development. Through his years of experience in those projects, education and community activities, Stephen has developed and honed his group process and planning skills. For the last two years, most of
his efforts has been in the area of strategic and program planning. .
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Laura Fragua-Cota is the 1999 recipient of the Alan Houser Award, one of New Mexico’s Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Laura
comes from the village of Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. She graduated with a BA in Arts from the University of Albuquerque in 1977 and attended the arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and graduated with
an Associates degree in 2-D and 3-D art in 1984. At the 1984 Eight Northern Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show her alabaster sculpture, “My Corn Meal Bowl Full of Prayers”, took the Best of Show and won the Pueblo
Governor’s award. The sculpture also won best of Division at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 1984. In 1992 she participated in an exhibit “The Artist Perspective of Columbus” and did a hide painting
which later took the Patrick Suazo Hines Award for New Directions In Painting at the 1993 Santa Fe Indian Market. In 1996 her oil painting entitled “Pueblo Indian Harvest Dance” won Best of Division in the Santa
Fe Indian Market in the 2-D category. In April of 1999, Laura curated and showed in a show at the IAIA Museum entitled “Changing Woman: Native Images in Stone” which was a show of women stone sculptors who were
IAIA alumni. Laura is currently completing her coursework for a Masters Degree in Art Therapy
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