New Mexico

Case of Stella against McDonald's in New Mexico on August 18, 1994. The actual event happened in February 1992. This lady is 79 years old (at the time) was passing through the McDonald's drive through appearing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and asked for a cup of coffee which was offered in Styrofoam cups. After receiving the trophy, grandson (who was driving card) going forward so you can put some sugar in my coffee, when I tried to open the lid, and spill hot coffee through her lap burn inner…

The Navajo Native Americans of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico have one of the continent’s richest and most unique cultural heritages. Their customs are the best conserved in the United States. While other folk cultures have succumbed to acculturation, the Navajo have endured. Their language provided a new means of cultural preservation through literary tradition, ensuring the survival of their folk culture while others when extinct. Foreign dangers have damaged but not destroyed their cultural…

sheep pasture in Roswell, New Mexico, but other beliefs say that it was a weather balloon launched off by the U.S. Military. This is what commence of the Roswell UFO case. Looking over the starting of the case, and the different testimonies, this all leads up to the modern day thoughts and beliefs people had and still have to this day on aliens and UFO cases. It was the summer of 1947 when the debris of what said to be, a UFO was found by farmer Mac Brazel, in Roswell New Mexico. While he and…

priorities list was key to making the experience memorable. Sight-seeing and trying out different types of food were up there, but the main thing I wanted to do was visit Utah 's mountains. Along the way, there were a few hiccups. First stop, was New Mexico. Going there first wasn 't prioritized for me, but it was expected since the state was right next to Texas. I figured I would try to make the best of it, but knowing my luck, there probably wasn 't much I could do since we only stopped there…

I would like to happily welcome you all in joining me on a tour of Carlsbad Cavern. Carlsbad Cavern is a United States National cavern located in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeast New Mexico. The cave was dissolved along cracks and faults in the limestone rock by sulfuric acid. The limestone was laid down about 250,000,000 years ago, as part of a reef complex along the edge of an inland sea. Seventeen to 20,000,000 years ago, the ancient reef rocks that had been buried under thousands of…

scene in this passage describes a mother explaining to her daughter, Izzy, that she will have to go stay in another state, New Mexico, while she goes to Costa Rica to complete her research. She mentions, “Our lives will change….For the better” (15). When Izzy tries to argue against having to go to New Mexico to stay with her Nana, her mother objects saying, “You’re going to New Mexico and that’s final” (28). These two statements that Izzy’s mother has made go to show that Izzy’s mother is very…

in a group sharing a common ancestral heritage. In his article, Buriel states that the population is biologically Mestizo, which is a genetic mixture of European Spanish and New World Indian. Early on, there were labels put on the Mestizos and by the 1800s’ they outnumbered the Spanish and were the dominant group in Mexico. Due to that, they choose to identify themselves with a Mexican identity instead of Spanish or Indian. Buriel’s article goes on to say that the European colonist’s…

1993). The Navajo Indian Tribe is the largest federally recognized Native American Indian Tribe in the United States. Their reservation is located through out the four corners of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. The Navajo Indian Tribe first settled in Arizona and New Mexico. When they reached New Mexico and Arizona they started to learn many things from the Pueblo Indians. A few things that the Navajo Indians learned from the Pueblo Indians including basket weaving, art and how to…

as well as academic and poetry journals about her struggles growing up as a Native American woman. Her stories are an inspiration to all Native and non-Native alike. Born in 1953, she was raised on a farm on the Navajo reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. The town was very small, only about a 16-mile radius, and growing up as a native she experienced everything from severe racism, criticism, and death. Tapahonso began writing poetry at the early age of about 8 years old, which was influenced…

There is over 3 million acres of reservation land that the Apaches live on. There are three primary states that the Apache Reservations are spread throughout, their homeland, Arizona, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation that the March of Tears led to is still open today. The Apache reservations have many tourist attractions such as museums, casinos, cultural centers, and famous land marks. One famous landmark is San Carlos…