New Mexico

The Navajo are a Native American people who live and lived in the southwestern United States. The Navajo, generally speaking, reside mainly in the four corners area where the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet. The Navajo have a rich cultural history and cosmology which has been passed down through generations. This history informs the connection between the people and the natural, spiritual world. Most Native people have an origin story which explains how the world came to…

but soon this idea of playing the sport were erased as he died. Additionally, Tayo is distraught after believing that he saw his Uncle Josiah’s face in the Japanese camp he was in while during the World War II battles. Tayo returns to his home in New Mexico, where the area is suffering from an extreme drought. He blames himself for it on account of praying against the rain earlier in his life. Overall, I believe that Tayo seeks solace after the war, and from all the tragedies that he faced…

As a child, Gary Soto imagined that he would “marry Mexican poor, work Mexican hours, and in the end die a Mexican death, broke and in despair” (Soto, “Living Up The Street” 184). Although this may seem surprising coming from the renowned modern Chicano poet of “Saturday at the Canal”, it was the inevitable fate of many in his childhood community. Soto grew up in Fresno, California at the heart of San Joaquin Valley’s agricultural industry in the mid-20th century, where everyone in his family…

group of Native Americans living in the parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and the edges of Colorado, culture and how their culture affects their day-to-day lives today. The Navajo culture today is different than it was twenty years ago,…

rebates. The city also started to invest in treatment plants to recycle wastewater and now El Paso recycles and sells about 12% of wastewater. El Paso even has the biggest desalination plant in the US, this plant treats the brackish water and pumps the new fresh water back into the aquifer. Because of the steps taken,…

marker of aging (Markstrom, 1). Puberty is a time in a young woman’s life that is encompassed by insecurity, awkwardness, judgment, and for some, pride. The Apache Tribe has a different approach to girls reaching puberty. The tribes, in Arizona and New Mexico, celebrate their members’ entrances into womanhood with a ceremony lasting several days and nights and filled with other members of the tribe singing, dancing, and praying (Yupanqui). It is believed…

Compared to other Native American tribes, the Navajos were considered geographically assessable. They were new comers to the “four corners” region, which is where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado currently meet. The Navajos basically thrived in the South West. By the 15th century, there were two hundred and twenty thousand Navajo inhabitants on twenty-five thousand square miles of land. The people relied on horticulture, which consisted of hunting and gathering, and sheep herding played…

Alzheimer’s disease almost a decade sooner than non-Hispanics.” (Gillette, 2014). Since Mexican Americans are more prone to cognitive impairment than non-Hispanics, medical experts can screen for early signs before things progress too far to treat or find new treatment…

Navajo Nation is considered the largest federally recognized Native American Indian Tribe in the United States which covers 27,673 square miles at the corners where Utah, Arizona and New Mexico meet. [1] The Navajos call themselves Diné which means “The People.” Mexican and Spanish people named the Navajos as “Apaches de Navajo.” “Apaches” means enemies in Spanish, and “Navajo” is an adapted word from Tewa and it means planted fields. In 1969, the Navajos Tribal Council officially named them as…

Culture is all around us. From what we wear to what we eat to how we speak. You can try to hide your connection to culture, but it will always find you. When searching for a definition to culture I feel Texas A&M University did an amazing job. Their definition states: “A culture is a way of life of a group of people—the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation…