Roswell, New Mexico

completely against vacating in the city. Noted by www.nbcfw.com, “Days after heavy rain, the flood threat continues to plague North Texas as Dallas County is under a Flood Warning.” In the year of 2015, the great flood of Dallas surfed all over the news. Lakes are flooding and causing most citizens to lose their home and some are evening losing jobs. This flood also had people stranded in their car, home, and job. People had no way of getting food or come in contact with their family. Vacating in

A History of the Teepee in North America Teepees, also known as tepees or tipis are a native American home used and constructed by the plains Indians of North America. Although not thought to be the invention of the plains Indian, that honour reputedly goes to the Indians of the Northern forests, they did further develop them and are the most famous dwellers in them. It is thought the earliest use of the teepee by plains Indians was around the seventeenth century. Teepees and plains Indians such

A quarter hour of high noon, sun blazing against the floor of the Desert, across the peaks and valleys: dancing were the prickly cactus to silent ripples of heat, waiting patiently for the rain. Considered a sacred place by natives who lived so many moons ago and by some of those living now, The Superstition Mountains hold countless secrets and there, more than one unsolved mystery has been borne. Many a man, and even a few adventurous women, young and old have come, dreaming of riches only

University is a private Christian association founded in Prescott, Arizona by the Southern Baptist Church in 1949. With six different locations, Grand Canyon University is found predominantly throughout Arizona and with one location in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The main campus was specifically situated in Central Phoenix, Arizona in 1951 with the surrounding of an urban community that is still intact today. In addition, the university was able to establish itself as an interdenominational Christian institution

Navajo culture distinctively took hold in the four corners area of the Colorado Plateau around 100 A.D., although they are believed to have been around for centuries before then. Disliking the term “Navajo Indians”, they refer to themselves as the “Diné” which means “The People” or “Children of the Holy People”. The Navajos are traditionally a matriarchal society. Descent and Inheritance were determined through the mother. In marital separation, woman kept the property and children. If the mother

The building blocks of New Mexico are Culture and Tradition just like the building blocks of my home town Hatch are Chile and Farming. Building blocks are the structure of everything and stand as a framework of underlying support. My building blocks are mainly Irish and Scottish with a little Spanish showing the diversity of my blood but I live in a mainly Spanish oriented town making for a unique combination. Being mainly of Irish and Scottish decent yet growing up in a Spanish oriented town I was

Indian code talkers are a group of bilingual Navajo speakers that were used to transfer messages during World War II. The Marine Corps recruited many of these Code Talkers to help them in the war. The Marines were so protective of the Code Talkers that if there was any danger of the Indians being captured for the Japanese to learn the code the Marines would have to kill the Code Talker. After the Navajo Code, also known as the Type One Codes, were created the Marine Corps started a Code Talking

Near the small town of San Antonio, NM is a spectacular display of one of nature's finest balanced beauty and wilderness paradise, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, situated on the northern edge of the Chihuahuan desert and straddling the Rio Grande. Fitting is the name Bosque del Apache, meaning "woods of the Apache," a reminder of the Apache peoples of long ago who lived along the Rio Grande. The 57,331-acre refuge was established in 1939 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an effort

My connection to Native American culture is very limited. The knowledge I do have would primarily be from the Disney movie Pocachontas as well as what I learned in elementary school relating to the first settlers and Thanksgiving. I have a basic understanding that their culture is based deeply in spiritual rituals. I also know that they have been forced to move from their land and have had to fight to keep the reservations that they currently reside on. I would say that the Native American culture

The Crow or Absaroka Tribe The Crow Tribe is also known as the Apsáalooke, Absaroka, and Apsaroke Tribe. They settled in Montana and then split into two different groups, the Mountain Crow and the River Crow. The Crow tribe made allies with Kiowa and Kiowa Apaches that where around the same area The Crows where in. The Crows are known for there skills with horses, however they did not always have horses and would hunt on foot and would use dogs to pull goods. Horse herds started to grow fast but