Roswell, New Mexico

The people in Rick Bragg 's articles, “The Valley of Broken Hearts”, “New Development Stirs Old Case”, and “French Quarter 's Black Tapping Feet”, all experienced struggles that gave them courage and made them work to get what they thought they deserved: compensation, redemption, and freedom. It is Navajo custom to mourn for four days and then get on with life. Little Joe died from lung cancer 35 years ago, in 1980. He had taken up a job in uranium mines on Navajo land to buy things for his…

were never fulfilled. This treaty was entered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the first day of July in 1851. It stated the following: “Articles of a treaty made and entered into at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight…

However, Jargowsky does admit that “co-location serves to cement the identification of new immigrants as racially different from the majority, and ‘exposes second-generation children to the adversarial subculture developed by marginalized native youths.’” While Mexican culture is not to blame for the poor conditions which plague the city centers of Los Angeles, it does in a sense perpetuate the attitudes which contribute to the concentration of those poor conditions within ethnic enclaves. Once…

The struggle for equality and citizen’s equal rights has been an issue and continues to be one to this day. Texas has waged many battles in the struggle for women, African Texans, Latinos, Gays, and Lesbians to all achieve the social and political equality that they all deserve. The major developments that have occurred in order for their equality are extremely significant and hold an important role in today’s society. Luckily, even after the opposition that has happened, we all came together as…

The Journey A Pawnee Journey Laure Mbonimpa Long, long ago in the plains there lived a village. A village of the Pawnee. In the Pawnee culture, a village like that was called a band. A celebration was going on called the Powwow. It was loud and cheerful. You could hear music and voices. You could see people in colorful clothes. Here goes the story… “WHOOO HOOOO!” cried a boy named Pawn who was in that band. The Pawnee tribe and people were a fierce, wonderful, and brave group. Pawn went…

What does it mean to be of hispanic descent? Being hispanic descent means that your ancestors are from countries once colonized by Spain for example Mexico. “I will say to you that americans of hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had” said by Marco Rubio. This quotation shows that most hispanic parents want the best for their children. They wanted them to have the life they didn’t get a chance to have. Loads of Mexican/ hispanic parent’s move to the…

“America has always been known to force their cultural opinions on many cultures besides their own, compelling them to revolt against the continuing oppression of American“ - India Cage I almost wrote a short story about the struggle to revolt against the construction of an oil pipeline that has threatened to be built on an Native American reserve but instead of sticking to what my teacher would want at the beginning of my persuasive writing. I choose to not only write about the…

The Pacific Theater was the site of a great many bloody battles in World War Two. The one most revered by the American people today is Iwo Jima, but there is a slew of other battles in which the Navajos were instrumental to including: Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and the Saipan. Every campaign which the United States began from 1942 through 1945 implemented the use of the navajo code talkers. Without these key battles the War in the Pacific would undoubtedly have been lost, and therefore would have…

famous leaders from the one of the many Apache tribes. He was the leader of the Chiricahua Apaches Indians. “He defended his land and people from attacks by settlers and soldiers in Mexico and southwestern United States during the 1870’s and 1880’s.” (worldbookonline.com) Geronimo was born along the Arizona-New Mexico border. He grew up in the Nednais which is another Apache tribe. “As a young man he served under the Apache leaders Cochise and Managas Coloradas. In 1858, his mother, wife,…

Mankind decides the fate of our planet, so we better choose wisely when it comes to the choices that involve the health of our planet and the creatures that lie inside of it. Building the Navajo Generating Station has been a huge step forward for civilization, but its successes have overshadowed the major problems it has created for our planet’s well-being. The environmental destruction caused by this power plant is hard to miss, between the amount of pollution it gives off, as well as the…