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SATURDAY MAY 14 H I S TO R I C D OW N TOW N G A L L U P

MAY ARTS CRAWL D O W N T O W N B E AT Spring has sprung! Whether you have spring cleaning or spring planting on your mind, or if you just have general spring fever, you’d better head to ArtsCrawl: DIY on May 14th from 7 – 9 pm in downtown Gallup.

At ArtsCrawl: DIY, check out how students from the University of New Mexico Gallup are building green. Stop by to admire their handcrafted furniture and get tips for assembling your own one-of-a-kind designs. Warning: please do try this at home (with the proper equipment, training and safety precautions, of course!).

You can also get your hands dirty planting a seedling or two in gardening workshops. Speaking of dirty, learn how downtown Gallup is about to get much more beautiful by tackling a dirty job:

trash. Hear from artists involved in the contest to paint trashcans and receptacles and get a glimpse of their design proposals and creative process.

Everyone knows downtown Gallup also loves its neon signs! Stop by the Shallow Gallery to see Jemez Pueblo artist Jaque Fragua’s latest neon installation and chat with the artist.

You might also see artists seemingly accomplish the impossible in metal forging and stone-cutting demos, enjoy live music (as always!) and check out what’s on at downtown galleries and eateries.

GallupARTS hopes to see you downtown on May 14th for ArtsCrawl: DIY! For more information and to stay up-to-date, follow us on Facebook at ArtsCrawl Gallup.

by Rose Eason

Image taken by Suzanne Hammons.

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Come to Arts Craw on May 14th!

Vote for William Edward Lee • Ballot Position #2 • Ensure Integrity and Clarity at every level of county government through the adoption of strong sensible policies.

• Continue work to find Sustainable Funding for the Detox Facility and for the Behavioral Health Improvement Zone that will advance a continuum of care to address the revolving door issue.

• Assurance of Financial Responsibility which works to maintain clean audits, the best use of tax payer dollars, and a commitment to fight against tax increases that hinder economic growth.

• Move Forward with a Strategic Plan that provides for:

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Thoughts from the West End Graduation! That’s the theme for this issue of the Gallup Journey, and it’s a fitting one not only for this time of year but also for the magazine itself. Ironically the Gallup Journey is also in the 12th grade; yes for nearly 12 years this publication has been gently nurtured by its virtual parents (Me, Jenny, Nate, Heather and Chuck W.).

Like all parents we have certainly made our share of mistakes in raising this magazine child, but despite ourselves it has somehow made it this far. I remember the early years of delivering a magazine to every home in town for the first eighteen months, it is not terribly different than the first year of school for my kids: lots of transitions, adjustments, and work.

Over the years my baby grew, got bigger, got smarter, started eating more and through the collective schooling of our community the Journey became a pretty good kid.

Today the Journey is a lanky teenager eager to get out of mom and dad’s house (and their rules) and head off to college to learn more. Mom and Dad likewise feel bittersweet in the relief of getting this man/child out of their living space, and the sadness of seeing their little baby head into the big world.

The Journey isn’t going anywhere; it is staying right here, but it is going to college. It’s professors will be the capable instructors of Gallup’s very own Jason and Daisy Arsenault. They are the new guardians of the Journey, and I am confident they will bring the publication to a higher level. They have experience and skills with the internet, business, graphics, and native culture that Mom and Dad just don’t have and will certainly provide higher education in the growth and development of the publication.

In the meantime, I will still be a Dad to the Journey.

I will continue to partner with Jason and Daisy, doing stories, photography, as well as writing the often cryptic words that appear in this space. Just like good parents, Jenny and I are dedicated to the success of our kids in college; we will send money, we will listen, we will tolerate strange girlfriends, and we will always welcome them home (for a while).

As for myself personally, I don’t plan on much change as Gallup is my home. As always, I am interested and dedicated to the development of our local communities. I am interested in and have always talked about tourism development here.

And I hope to be a better Dad to my offspring that have real flesh and blood. Between these things and still partnering with the Journey, I’ll probably still be busier than I want to be. Such is life.

But for now: to all our local graduates, including the Journey…

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Contents 12 The Perfect Speech

34 Gallup Day Trip

14 Education Segues to Work

38 Events Calendar

by Leslie Farrell

by Nikki Van Slooten

by Sarah Zylstra

18 The Bill, Navajo Rug Dress

by Michelle Laughing-Reeves, Navajo Weaver

42 Six Direction, Indigenous School 44 An Interview with John Rains,

28 Gift Guide

Jane Polich and John Mraz The Techno Age

30 Venue Guide

48 Driving Impressions

32 Wanted: Young, Smart,

by Greg Cavanaugh

Hard-Working, Hopeful Applicants:

by Janie Ryoken

Contributors Ernie Bulow Greg Cavanaugh David Conejo Jay Mason Bob Rosebrough Sandra McKinney

40 Dream, Believe, Build

56 Business Directory 58 Work

by Jay Mason

62 Veterans Corner

by Sandra McKinney

66 A Brief History of Indian Education

by Ernie Bulow

72 8 Questions

by Fowler Roberts

50 Befriended

by Marcus Martza

Nikki Van Slooten Leslie Farrell Sarah Zylstra Michelle Laughing-Reeves Janie Ryokan Marcus Martza

Managing Editor: Aileen McCarthy

Special Thanks To the Journey Staff

Publishers Daisy & Jason Arsenault Chuck & Jenny Van Drunen

May 2016 Issue #142

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PROVEN LEADERSHIP HEALTH ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Established the liquor excise tax.

• Established the Na’nizhoozhi Center, Inc. (NCI) • With Senator Lidio Rainaidi established the 4 million dollar Gallup Dialysis Center. No cost to County taxpayers.

• Worked with others to establish the Gallup Cancer Center.

• As RMCHCS Chairperson turned a loss into a profit.

RECREATIONAL/YOUTH ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Established Hilso Trailhead including restrooms. No cost to County taxpayers.

• Worked to secure $500,000 in grants to establish the Zuni Mountain Trail System.

• Built road to the Red Rock ATV park.

• Provided annual funding to Gallup Boys & Girls Club.

COUNTY OPERATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Established financial stability for county jail with some years

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FUTURE GOALS • Continue working on health and social service initiatives.

showing a profit.

• Established the new Magistrate court building.

• Improved the County’s bond rating from BBB+ to A+ • Paid off Court House bonds 10 years early.

• Gave a million dollars annually to Gallup Navajo Pipeline.

• Accessed funds from Navajo Department of Transportation and New Mexico Department of Transportation for County roads.

• Continue supporting the Adventure Gallup & Beyond sports tourism initiative.

• Continue working on improving and funding the Zuni Mountain Trail System.

• Continue supporting veteran issues and projects.

• Seek alternate paved road for Red Rock State Park..

• Supported ‘World Changers’ to improve homes for disabled people

• Improve the county bond rating from A+ to AA+.

• Resurfaced the McGaffey Road.

• Continue funding for the McKinley County Humane Society.

• Standardized annual purchasing of County Sheriff ’s Office

• Improve working relations with all area governments.

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• Will not raise taxes.

“Together We Can Succeed”

The Perfect Speech In high school I was third. Third in the talent show, third in Drama State, third base in softball, and third in my class. I never thought I would be making a speech at graduation. The girl who was top of the class was far above everyone else, and the girl in second (let’s call her Ana) was far more hardworking than I was.

Surprisingly, not getting to make a speech in front of my entire class and all of their family and friends did not break my heart. But, because I was a creative literary genius even in high school, I came up with a speech. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t actually sit down and work on a speech because I was bored or because I wanted to challenge myself. No, no, it’s much weirder than that. It just started coming to me randomly. It floated into my mind one day and I ran with it, coming up with it entirely in my head.

This means it was never written down. But that was not a big deal because I was never going to have to give it. A fact that kind of bummed me out because I actually thought it was pretty brilliant.

I shrugged it off though and finished out my senior year. I was 12 May 2016

always one or two points behind Ana in every subject except English, where I dominated (this is not a brag, just more of a statement to prove my earlier claim of being a literary genius). As it turns out, English was the only subject that counted more since it was an AP class. I, of course, had not paid attention to this because I was a literary genius and did not care about such things (translation: I was too lazy and bad at math to even comprehend such things).

So it was a little bit of a surprise when my principal came in to speak with Ana and me about the position of salutatorian. He told us that Ana was about 0.5 points higher than me when the classes weren’t weighted, but I was about 0.5 points higher than her when they were. Because of this, he had decided to make us co-salutatorians.

I instantly rushed home and tried to remember the mindblowingly awesome speech I had come up with a couple months before, but, alas, nothing came. I was stuck.

I decided to set it aside and hope that it would pop into my head

analyzed during English class was “It’s a Woman’s World” by Eavan Boland where she mentions “stargazers” and “fire eaters” frequently. Anyway, just thought you would like to know that in case it comes up later...

“I am positive that each and every one of us will be able to make a difference in the world”

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again. Unfortunately, this did not happen.

Bits and pieces did float back, but not the whole thing. I was able to write up a fairly good speech, but it did take some effort especially because I was trying to capture the brilliance of the lost speech by cramming in the bits and pieces I did remember into a new speech.

I guess the world will never get to experience the sheer awe-inspiring brilliance of the first speech, but you can read it’s cousin here. But first, a few random facts: my school colors were green and white, my class flower was the stargazer lily, my class song was End of the Summer by Theory of a Deadman, and during my senior year the main poem we

SPEECH GIVEN TO MY SENIOR CLASS Finally… we are here. It is graduation day.

After all of these years of preparing, after all of our frustrations and trials, after every single meltdown, we have finally come out victorious. It is finally time to display our green and white haloes and don our majestic robes for all to see. Now all that is left is that walk down the aisle. That walk that changes you from a student to an adult. We walk as a class, yet we walk alone. A single file line of individuals marching down this long aisle of old memories, future plans, and fresh tears. A walk signaling the end… and the beginning. For awaiting us at the end of this aisle which separates us from our childhood is our future. Our bright, overbearing, world-rocking future. Oh yes, our class is going to change the world. We are not only stargazers, as our class flower would suggest, we are also fire-eaters, and we are going to light the world on fire.

I am extremely proud of my class. From sponsoring the renewal of a school-wide food drive, to banning together to win the most points in the spirit week activities, our class has shone its ability to shine. I am positive that each and every one of us will be able to make a difference in the world.

I cannot wait for class reunions for there will never be a greater gathering of more prominent people. Until that time, however, go forth and share your gifts with the world.

High school is done. All that is left is to say our thank yous and goodbyes. I’ll start: Thank you. Thank you for being there when I needed you most. Thank you for sympathizing with me over a hard test, or laughing over a nutty teacher. Thank you for cheering with me in the stands or cheering for me on the field. Thank you, for a great four years.

Now all that’s left for me to do is say goodbye… but only for now. It may be the End of the Summer, but it is the beginning of the time of our lives.

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Sarah Zylstra: Education segues to Work What was the degree/certification you earned from UNM-Gallup?

Associates of Nursing Had you already finished some University level courses/degree before beginning your course work at UNM-Gallup?

Yes, I took courses at Calvin College (1999) and also at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA (2010).

Some were core classes needed for my degree and some (Anatomy) were to fulfill requirements for an Associates of Nursing degree.

How long did it take you to finish your program at UNM-Gallup?

The nursing program was four semesters (two school years) [2013-2015]. I did two semesters prior to that completing prerequisite. UNM -Gallup does not have a part time nursing program, so, it was full time. I was able to go part time for my prerequisites.

Was the course work heavy?

YES! The content was different than anything I had studied previously. I could no longer just memorize things. Critical thinking was key to answering questions correctly, and I had to really stretch my thinking to understand this concept.

Did you have to dedicate a significant amount of time to your studies?

During nursing school, school work was my life. When the staff told us at the beginning of the first semester “you will have to say no to practically everything!,” they were not exaggerating. Ken (my husband) and I had to do some shuffling around of household chores and childcare to make it work.

Clean floors and gourmet meals were put on the back burner during this time. We ate a lot of grilled cheese.

We have an overstuffed chair in our living room that my kids dubbed “The Throne”. I would spend most of the day in it studying, giving directions to my brood when they happened to come into my vicinity!

You have a family, three (four): children and a husband. Was it hard to find time for your studies?

We made it work. I often said what a luxury it was that I didn’t have to work and could just concentrate on my studies! Many of my classmates were single parents and they still worked either full or part time.

They would continually amaze me! Though my kids were 100% behind me, there were many nights with a lot of crying and lamenting from my children. “I just want you to be done with nursing school!!!”

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Was the family behind you?

Oh yes! They were all behind me knowing that someday it would be over.

You came to Gallup because of your husband’s job. Did you know that UNM-Gallup was in your future, or did you decide to do school for another reason?

We would have moved here (Rehoboth/Gallup) regardless of the UNM - Gallup program or not, but it was an extra bonus! I had heard about the program from a friend that lived here at Rehoboth and gone through it. I met with a nursing advisor at UNM-Gallup and she walked me through the application process and requirements. She was extremely helpful. But because I was not a resident of New Mexico yet, tuition was extremely expensive.

I decided to take a year off my studies and help my kids/self adjust to a new area and school. It was a great decision, one I don’t regret.

Could you have gone anywhere after graduation and found employment after going through the Gallup-UNM program?

Yes. I think so. I only applied at RMCH and one other place, so I guess I don’t really know, but I was offered jobs immediately after graduation, even though I hadn’t taken the test you have to pass to become a registered nurse (the NCLEX). After doing

my clinicals at RMCH I knew it was a place I wanted to work, and then was offered a job there.

I love where I work!

Is nursing as rewarding as you thought it would be?

Every time that I go to work I feel like I am rewarded. Be that from my patient’s satisfaction with my care, the chance to help a colleague or get help from a colleague, learning something new (every shift!!), even if I make a mistake, I am rewarded with the information that I hope I won’t make that mistake twice.

What would you tell those students who are in the program now - words of advice from a graduate?

You can do this! Really, just don’t procrastinate!

And when studying for the NCLEX (or any other test for that matter) find as many questions as you can and try to answer them!

Would you recommend this program to someone wanting to become a nurse?

Absolutely! I was well prepared for the NCLEX and had the fundamentals of nursing to do any nursing job! I was continually challenged in the UNM-Gallup nursing program to develop and hone my critical thinking skills. And to be a successful nurse - critical thinking is key!

THE BIIL, NAVAJO RUG DRESS May is here, and this means that graduation invites will also soon be in the mail. Graduates across the county are deciding which senior portrait to include with their invitations, which relative or friend they want in their cheering section, and most importantly, which outfit to wear to the commencement exercises.

Stereotyping will dictate that females are making a bigger fuss on their outfits than the males, and this includes young Navajo ladies.

For many Navajos, the pride of earning a diploma or a degree is shared by several generations of the family, not to mention the extended clan family. So, a young Navajo lady’s choice for graduation attire will ultimately include a traditional one. She may choose the most common of the traditional clothing, a velveteen top with a satin skirt and moccasins with a hair bun to complete the package, or she can be more fashionable and opt for the Pendleton one-piece dress, perhaps sleeveless, one-shouldered, haltered or strapless.

The third choice is an obvious choice, but coming by it is not so easy. The biil, the Navajo rug dress, would be the most prestigious choice, not to mention the empowering symbolism it has of the Navajos’ accomplishments: hard work, obedience, patience, time, and financial investment.

Before anyone questions the cost of a biil, one should understand its history and creation.

The history of weaving rugs reaches as far back as the late 1500s, but further back according to the mythological time of the Navajo people.

It is believed that Spider Woman invited a young Navajo woman into her house and taught her how to weave. Spider Woman made the young lady’s loom of sky and earth and used sunlight, lightning, shells, and crystals for her weaving tools. The imagery of such a creation is as beautiful as it is naturalistic.

It is easy to see the connection between the Navajos and Mother Earth and Father Sky, which is evident by the value and sacredness of any Navajo weaving. The origin story of Navajo rugs, however, is more likely an evolution of the Navajos’ lifestyle as their grazing and hunting lands were invaded by neighboring tribes and the Spaniards.

The Pueblos of what is now northern New Mexico, meanwhile, were farmers and they planted and harvested the cotton they used in their weaving of textiles. The Navajos, who wore deerskin clothing, stole the idea and used the wool from the sheep in their flock to weave with. The craft of weaving was originally done by the males of the tribe, just as it was amongst the Pueblos. The first rugs woven were made of natural-colors which came from black, brown, gray, and white sheep. The course wool made good durable rug blankets, serapes for the men, and dresses for the women and girls. As the Navajos became more skilled at weaving, they began to experiment with other materials, mainly stolen in raids or traded with for other goods. Soon, rugs were woven

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with combinations of cotton, wool, baize, and flannel cloth, and these new materials included new colors like red and blue.

By the 1800s, the Navajos had established a distinct niche with their own weaving technique, style, and designs. They were also no longer weaving to make functional pieces, the weavings had become an important trade item, ending up in distant places like Montana and Wyoming. The chief blankets, in particular, were prized possessions because it symbolized power and leadership. Meanwhile, the biil was also becoming popular with the Navajo women, and one of those women was Juanita, Chief Manuelito’s wife.

As a Hispanic slave of Chief Manuelito, Juanita learned the Navajo ways quickly.

By the time she became his wife, Juanita was a proficient weaver, weaving her own dresses and her husband’s serapes. She wove her rugs with wool which she dyed in indigo blue and cochineal red, which were brought by the Spaniards. A biil is typically two rugs, woven separately with a pre-established dominant color of black or red and geometric designs in red or blue, respectively. The biil usually had only two colors and it took many hours at the loom to complete. The two rugs were then laced together on the vertical sides and top, leaving an opening for each arm and the head.

Historical photographs of Juanita and other Navajo women show that the lace at the top still revealed a lot of shoulder. It wasn’t until 1863 when the Navajos were rounded up and placed in internment camps at Fort Sumner, NM that their weaving was again influenced. The sewing machine was introduced to the Navajos along with velveteen, cotton, and satin cloths. Women came home wearing a completely different clothing style.

From the velveteen cloths they made blouses for themselves and their families, and with the satin they made skirts. The men no longer wore deerskin.

Upon his return, Chief Manuelito was recognized as the leader of the Navajos and he escorted his wife on every diplomatic trip. She met two U.S. presidents, Grant and Hayes, while wearing the traditional biil, made with her own two hands. There is no greater symbol of resilience of the Navajos than the biil worn

by Juanita as she sat among the

diplomats of the time. As we come full circle to today, we remember Chief Manuelito’s words to his children, urging them to seek education as the pathway to success.

These successes will soon to be celebrated by many young graduates and their families, but for a Navajo woman this success encompasses a lot more. She A pictorial weaving of Spider Rock, the mythological home of Spider Woman. is proud to walk Woven by the author, Michele Laughing across the stage to receive her diploma or her degree, while and dyeing of the wool, to the actual weaving her family and clan share the same pride in of the two rugs, and finally to the sewing the audience. This celebration is priceless, of the two rugs into a dress. The hefty price and no attire is more appropriate for the tag sounds more economical. A typical biil occasion than the biil. purchased “off the rack” could cost between five hundred to over a thousand dollars. This So, take into account the numerous hours kind of shopping isn’t recommended since it has taken from the shearing of the sheep, rugs are not altered to fit, and the choice in to the cleaning of the wool, to the carding color is whatever was available to the weaver at the time. A biil needs to be ordered months, preferably a year, in advance, and the customer has the opportunity to design her dress and choose her favorite colors. The variations created by those who plan far in advance will have graduation audiences gasping with amazement and awe. Biil dresses spotted at graduations off and on the Navajo reservation are now as fashionable as mainstream dresses. The designs are more intricate and elaborate; some have pictorials, and the colors span the entire spectrum of available dye colors. The same amount of effort put into the weaving of a biil is comparable to the student’s effort in attaining her goal.

If you find yourself admiring a biil dress during this graduation season, take a photo. You shouldn’t pass up the opportunity to own an artifact of the most recent evolution of the biil.

And perhaps, someday the young lady in the picture will be the president of the Navajo Nation or of the United States.

By Michele Laughing-Reeves, Navajo Weaver

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Questions for our Awesome Graduating Senior Gallup High School Adrieanna

Q: What is your favorite high school memory?

A: My favorite high school memory is awaygames and playing volleyball and softball with unforgettable teammates who have and always will support me.

Q: What are five things that are going to be on your bucket list?

A: 1. Go to Rome; 2. Build my own house; 3. Travel Europe; 4.

Save a life; 5. Find true happiness Q: What advice do you have for junior high students ready for high school?

A: To all the incoming freshman, always do your work, stay on top of your grades. You do not need a boyfriend or girlfriend, it just adds stress. Have fun, but not too much fun!

Jefferson

Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: It may seem clichè, but my parents are actually my biggest inspiration. They were the ones who taught me how to find hope when down and to be humble when things are up. Together they have become one driving factor for me to do and be my best at school.

Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

A: In ten years I see myself working for a large prestigious engineering company that is developing and advancing modern technology. Either that or open up a shop in Gallup that is engineering related.

Q: What will you miss most about High School?

A: The People. Definitely the people. The teachers, my friends, and the staff, that have all contributed to the experiences that I deem valuable from Gallup High.

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Q: What is a High School accomplishment you are proud of?

A: Achieving my goal of being one of the top ten students in my class Q: What is your favorite High School memory?

A: My favorite high school memory is when our Key Club went to a district convention and we were able to learn more about service projects.

Q: What advice do you have for junior high students ready for high school?

A: Focus on your grades now! You’ll regret having bad grades when the time comes of applying for scholarships for college.

Also, join community service clubs!

Michelle

Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My biggest inspiration I would have to say is God. Everyone will let you down, I have let people down, but God has never done that. He has brought me through storm after storm and he has helped me to become the person that I am today. I could never be more thankful.

Q: Where do you see yourself in ten years?

A: I see myself in the Army or Air Force as a military police officer, possibly retiring soon, and dedicating my life to missionary work.

Q: What advice do you have for junior high students ready for high school?

A: Make every second count. Put your family first, but take high school seriously. Don’t fall into peer pressures and just be yourself and you will attract the right friends that will significantly impact your life in a positive way.

Mariah

Jalen

Q: What is a High School accomplishment you are proud of?

A: Throughout my senior year I have held a 4.0 GPA, along with getting all-district center for football.

Q: What is your favorite high school memory?

A: When I finally got the courage to ask my best friend to prom.

Keep in mind, I had never done anything like this ever, previously. (and beating Miyamura) Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My biggest inspiration was my father, he told me all about his days in high school. He explained to me right from wrong, and to always stay on top of my work.

Allysen

Q: What is a high school accomplishment you are proud of?

A: A high school accomplishment I am proud of would be being accepted to Northern Arizona University. I am very interested in their nursing program. NAU is one of my top college choices to attend.

Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My biggest inspiration is my family. They know what I am capable of and what I am striving to be. They never stopped giving me encouraging lectures and pushing me to succeed.

Q: What do you see yourself doing in ten years?

A: In ten years I see myself as a well educated women in the sports medicine field and an experienced certified nurse midwife.

My two majors will allow me to travel and work in a wide selection of hospitals, along with opportunities to view the world from a different perspective.

Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My biggest inspirations have been my parents.

Q: What are your plans after High School?

A: I am going to go to UNM to get a Bachelors degree in nursing.

Q: What will you miss most about High School?

A: After high school I will miss being a member of the Bengal Girl dance team and performing at all of the basketball and football games.

John

Q: How has family encouraged you?

A: They have encouraged me by giving me opportunities. They have given me the opportunity to go to school, play sports, and do community service. Without these opportunities, I would not have been able to accomplish anything that I have done up to this point in my life.

Q: What is a high school accomplishment you are proud of?

A: One accomplishment I am very proud of is qualifying for the State golf tournament, because it was a dream of mine that finally came true.

Q: What are five things that are gong to be on your bucket list?

A: 1. Play golf at Augusta, Georgia; 2. Live in Ireland; 3. Visit Italy; 4. Play in a professional golf tournament; 5. Get my Masters degree

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Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My biggest inspiration was my Dad. He always encouraged me to do my best.

Q: What is your favorite high school memory?

A: My favorite high school memory is going to state with my high school football team.

Q: What advice do you have for junior high students ready for high school?

A: Have fun.

Marissa

Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My biggest inspiration is my big brother, Brandon. He has always shown me that I should do my best no matter how hard the situation was.

Q: What are your plans after high school?

A: My plans are to attend Southern Utah University and hopefully pursue a career in mathematics.

Q: What will you miss most about high school?

A: What I will miss the most about high school is all the amazing people. All the great friends I have made and the wonderful teachers that have helped me along the way to graduation.

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Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

A: I see myself in 10 years working for a major league baseball team as a physical therapist and having a family Q: What will you miss most about high school?

A: The thing I will miss most about high school will be sports, all the people that have become family to me and the memories playing sports and all the.

Q: What advice do you have for junior high students ready for high school?

A: For those coming to high school next year, enjoy the time you spend there because four years goes by faster than you know but take classes seriously and enjoy high school.

Gabby

Q: What are your plans after high school?

To go to Eastern New Mexico University and pursue the career of a Speech-language pathologist.

Q: What will you miss most about high school?

A: My little sister Q: What advice do you have for junior high students ready for high school?

A: Do not procrastinate.

Niles

Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My biggest inspiration would be my parents and my two personal coaches, Lawrence Guilford and Felicia Guilford. They not only encouraged me to do my best at school but to be the best at the sport I participated in.

Q: What is your favorite high school memory?

A: My favorite high school memory would be becoming at Miyamura’s first State championship. Along with winning Gatorade Player of the Year.

Q: What will you miss most about high school?

A: One thing I will miss about high school would be my friends. In college you’ll be busy in school so it’s going to be pretty hard to make time for friends. This summer I’ll try and spend most of my time with them.

Rehoboth High School Keiyana

Q: What are your plans after High School?

Career/Education A: I plan on attending GCU (Grand Canyon University) and majoring in Pre-Medicine and I would like to get my basics for my medical studies done and finished until I receive a Bachelor’s Degree. Afterwards, I would like to transfer to GateWay Community College and major in Diagnostic Medical Sonography (Ultrasound Technician) and I will most likely be finishing my college career there.

Q: Where do you see yourself in Ten years?

A: I see myself being able to come back and teach other Native Americans how much potential we have by going on with our education and showing our strength through our knowledge. I would also like to teach other students Navajo.

Although, teaching Navajo would need to come later, after I learn and study the language myself.

Q: If you could go travel anywhere this summer where would it be? Why? A: I would like to travel to Japan. I have sort of an addiction to Anime which is like JAPANESE cartoons.

Although, I think the main reason I would like to go is because I like experiencing new places and comparing the differences of back home and the area I am currently in.

I’m also interested in their language which sounds so cool to me.

Q: What are five things that are going to be on your bucket list?

Go to Japan: Learn multiple languages; Travel to multiple countries; Befriend a wolf; Own a loom and learn how to weave.

Jordan

Haley

Q: What will you miss most about High School?

A: Interacting with my teachers. They made a huge difference.

Q: If you could go travel anywhere this summer where would it be? Why? A: London, England because I am fascinated by the culture and film industry in that country.

Q: What advice do you have for junior high students getting ready for high school?

A: Look at college and apply early. Don’t be closed minded. You might find something you like in an unexpected place.

Jessica

Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My biggest inspiration was my brother, Carlos.

Q: How did they encourage you?

A: He encouraged me to do the best in everything that I put my mind to. He showed me to never give up and with everything that I do to put God first and glorify Him always.

Q: If you could go travel anywhere this summer where would it be? Why? A: I would love to travel to Italy or Spain because I have family who live there that I have never met and it would be awesome to meet them. I would also love to see where my great grandparents/grandparents grew up and how they got from Europe to America!

Q: Who was your biggest inspiration? The person who was always encouraging you to do the best you could at school?

A: My mother.

Q. How did they encourage you?

A: She encouraged me by making me strive in my academics and extracurricular activities. She pushed me to finish all my assignments on time and cheered for me in my sports.

Q: What is your favorite High School memory?

A: My favorite high school memory is going on band tour in places all over California. We went to the beach in San Diego, Alcatraz in San Francisco, and played laser tag in Fresno.

Q: What advice do you have for junior high students getting ready for high school?

A: Don’t slack off in your school work or grades. Colleges look at all four years of academics in high school.

Thea

Q: What is a High School accomplishment you are proud of?

A: Participating in all three AP Classes that are provided at Rehoboth that include: AP European History, AP English and AP Calculus; Being inducted into the National Honors Society; Going to state for Cross country and softball.

Q: What are your plans after High School? Career/ Education A: I plan to attend the University of New Mexico Career: Optometry Q: Where do you see yourself in ten years?

A: Finishing Optometry school and being able to do what I love.

Q: What is your favorite High School memory?

A: Going to homecoming with my best friends. We danced, laughed and had lots of fun!

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Walking In Beauty

Health In The Land of Enchantment

In this space there will be a variety of local writers who will share their perspectives on health, lifestyle, and medicine.

Carbohydrates There is more than one type of carbohydrate.

Weight loss fads have and will always be changing. One of the latest craze is carbohydrates. Is this something we should include in our diets or completely eliminate in order to lose weight? Carbohydrates should never be avoided because they serve as our primary source of energy. They are a crucial part to any healthy diet. It is important to understand the difference between the two types.

SIMPLE CARBOHYDRATES Simple Carbohydrates are made up of simple-to-digest, basic sugars that have very little nutritional value for our meals. A food that is high in sugar and low in fiber tends to fall into this category of not the best choice of food for our diets. Examples would include; cookies, cake, soda, candy, white rice, pastries and sugar. Fruits and vegetables also fall into the category of simple carbohydrates but are very different from the list above because each of these contain a high amount of fiber which slows down the digestion process, making them more like complex carbohydrates.

The best advice is to enjoy simple carbohydrates on occasion, not making them your primary source of carbohydrates.

COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES Complex Carbohydrates contain longer chains of sugar molecules making them take longer for digestion. This gives us the feeling of being full for much longer than what a simple carbohydrate would provide. Switching your diet from simple to more complex carbs is easy to do by just going from white rice to brown rice. Getting good at reading food labels will help you distinguish between a simple or a complex carbohydrate. A good rule of thumb is if the first ingredient is whole-wheat

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flour or whole-oat flour, it is likely to be a complex carbohydrate product. Also, look at the fiber content of the food on the food label to see that it is high in fiber.

EXAMPLES OF COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES:

Whole Wheat Bread Brown Rice Raspberries

Carrots Quinoa Sweet Potatoes

So when in doubt, it is best to enjoy simple carbohydrates on occasion, not making them your primary source of carbohydrates.

Have a plan to include each of the food groups in your daily meal plan, making sure that the majority of your calories come from fruits and vegetables.

Business Spotlight

By Aileen McCarthy

It’s common knowledge that with the advancements of technology comes efficiency in the work place and in our homes. With the press of a button one can effortlessly engage in communication. Although technology has opened this advantageous door, it has also opened an opportunity for a disconnect between persons. The business deal that used to be done over coffee and solidified with a hand shake is now done without ever seeing the person you are communicating with. Time is saved but often a relationship is lost. This disconnect, although an easy temptation, is only that, and it can be avoided without detriment to efficiency. U.S. Bank prioritizes that balance. “We genuinely strive to care for our customers with personalized communication,” said Eric Begay, Gallup’s office Market President, “and not just on a financial level. We strive to care for the betterment of our customer’s whole well-being.”

When it comes to a genuine interest in the customer, the buck does not stop at the individual. U.S. Bank strongly believes in the improvement of the communities they are in and the businesses that are in it. Within a year U.S. Bank invested over $50.5 million in New Mexico communities. That included grants and non-profit sponsorships. During that same time, it loaned over $35.7 million dollars for community development throughout New Mexico. “We take a special interest in local businesses,” said Eric, “We understand their investment in this community so we want to support and encourage their efforts by investing in their business. All the Gallup’s office employees grew up here. We are here to stay and we want to support businesses who are here to do the same.”

U.S. Bank goes that extra mile for their communities. In one year their employees volunteered over 2,200 hours of community service in New Mexico. It is no surprise with such attentiveness U.S. Bank is the 5th largest bank in the United States of America and that in 2015 it was voted the most ethical business in the U.S.

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The Bill Malone Trading Company Address 235 W. Coal Ave Gallup, NM 87305 Phone: (505) 863-3401 Hours: 10AM - 6PM Monday through Saturday Come find gifts for your Graduate or your loved one for Mother’s Day! 28 May 2016

Rico Auto Complex

Address 220 S 5th St, Gallup NM Phone: (505) 906-6026

Butlers Printing & Office Supply

Address 1900 E Historic Highway 66, Gallup NM Phone: (505) 722-2388

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Sports World

Address: 1500 S. Second Street Phone: (505) 722-3055 Come shop for your bicycle needs

Gallup Custom Tinting

Address:110 S 3rd St, Gallup NM Phone: (505) 722-2388

Richardson’s Trading Company

Address: 222 W. 66 Avenue Email: richardsonstradingco@yahoo.com Phone: (505) 722-4762 “Store of Treasures”

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Great Local Venues Hilton Garden Inn

“You can count on us” Max Capacity: 200 people or 140 people with dance floor Occupancy: 105 Rooms that include 2 suites Address: 1530 West Maloney Avenue Gallup, NM 87301 Phone: (505) 722-9600

Sammy C’s

Graduation Banquet Planning?

Sammy C’s will accommodate up to 150 guests.

Let us help you create a memorable celebration for your graduate! Choose from a variety of buffets, including: Steak and Enchiladas, Roast Beef dinner, Turkey dinner, Prime Rib, Ribeye Steak dinner, Mexican buffet, Italian buffet, and more! For a reception style event, choose from a variety of Appetizer Platters.

Call and ask for Deb, or simply leave a message and we will call you back to set up appointment.

Address:107 West Coal in Downtown, Gallup.

Phone: (505) 863-2220

Cocina De Dominguez

Host Capacity 90 Cater Up To: 200 “Best service in town” Address: 1648 S 2nd St. Gallup, NM Phone: (505) 863-9640

Silver Stallion Coffee & Bread Gallup’s only fully organic kitchen.

Specialty coffee. Artisan bread.

Sandwiches and pizza.

Pasteries and bagels.

Host or catering Contact Scott at (707) 479-6253 Address: 213 W Coal Ave Gallup, NM

Virgie’s

Great atmosphere that serves Mexican food and steaks Cater up to 40 people Address: 2720 West Historic Highway 66 Phone: (505) 863-5152

Fratelli’s Bistro

Winner of the “Home’s Best Pizza In New Mexico” contest!

Cater up to: 500 Max Capacity: 80 Address: 1209 Highway 491, Gallup, NM Phone: (505) 863-9201

Smokeys

Cater Up to: No Limit Feed In Up To: 300 Max Capacity: 380 including patio Phone: (505) 722-2023 Address: 505 N. Hwy 491

Coal Street Pub

Catering available to large or small groups We cater on or off site. You can choose your own menu or pick from ours.

Located in the center of downtown, this restaurant serves tasty food in a fun atmosphere.

Open daily at 11 am Address: 303 West Coal Ave. Gallup NM Phone: (505) 722-0117

Don Diegos

Please call for more information!

Address: 801 W Historic Highway 66 Gallup, NM Phone: (505) 722-5517

Wanted: Young, Smart, Hard-working, Hopeful Applicants Is there a fast track to becoming successful and happy in life? Is there a way to skip the next six to eight years of racking up debt while you figure out if you want to be an accountant, a criminal justice lawyer, a nurse, or a mechanic? I think so. The trick is not to feel the pressure to make all of your decisions at once, while avoiding the funk that might result in a perennial minimum wage job instead.

THE BASIC IDEAS Look for evidence of who you are in your own experiences and passions. What have you done well at, what do you enjoy, and where do you invest extra time? Look back over your own life and find out who you are, and then think about what you want long term. Above all, don’t let your education define you, instead, define your education.

BUT, HOW? Not everyone knows from the time they are “knee high” what they love to do more than anything else. So how can you find out what you love? Experience. There’s nothing more fun and self-enlightening than to experience something new.

You can do this multiple ways: Sign up with a Temp Job company, and you will experience jobs in many different fields, from landscaping to office work.

Take several different classes that interest you to some degree, like pottery, welding, creative writing, filmography, etc., but don’t commit to a degree program.

Travel. Visit other countries and go to places that are not on the usual tourist attraction lists: like rural innovative farms in Asia or Europe, the fishing industry in the Philippines, or apply for a summer of work at a coffee house in the mountains of Tibet.

If you love to cook, you could get a culinary-arts degree or volunteer at a great foodie revolution restaurant and learn how to make artisan breads or be a barista. Doing both may afford you better job opportunities, but maybe not. Find out if the great chefs you know have degrees and where they got their education.

If you plan to be a mother and wife someday, but are interested in medicine; think about what education will empower you to be a wife and mother and suffice your interest in medicine.

Midwifery? Herbology? Pediatrics?

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STORIES FROM PEOPLE THAT DID IT Contractor or Architect: The adobe building contractor named Bonafacio beautiful face stood before us with his arms outstretched, turning in a slow circle in the adobe room he had built for the four million dollar home on the Rio Grande.

“Come in here, come in here. Feel that? You feel it? Do you remember when you last felt that sense of . . . peace, security, and well-being? The womb. That’s when you last felt it. That’s why I love adobe.”

“How did you get started building these houses on the Rio Grande?” I asked him.

“I’ve loved adobe since I was this high,” Bonafacio answered, putting his hand down by his knee. “All I wanted to do was play in the mud. I wanted to build adobe houses. I became a licensed contractor and made adobe my specialty.”

“You know,” he said, “part of it is just knowing people — the people that make the bricks, the people that make the vigas and the carved doors. I know those people, the best people, so I have all the best materials. That makes me the best, you see?”

Technology and a Passport I know a man from Sweden who, while still in high school, was already working for large companies programming integrated circuits. He is very intelligent and really didn’t need a college degree at all to get the jobs he wanted. But what he did want was a job in the U.S. So he decided to go to college here in order to make connections and potentially get citizenship.

He probably would have been accepted at MIT or CalTech (for 40k per year), he chose a full-ride scholarship to a small college.

Why? Because he didn’t need the brand-name degree or the

education. He accomplished exactly what he wanted in short order. This man used structured education to get what he wanted: a U.S. passport.

Law and Connections I also know a man that wanted to be a lawyer and bring in a significant income. He discovered that many successful lawyers are Catholic. So he went to a classical liberal arts school that was endowed and attended primarily by Catholics. He didn’t choose this school primarily for the education, or because he was Catholic, but for the connections. This man was hired by a successful lawfirm before he finished his education.

Art and Layout I know another young man who was home schooled. He was artistic, and so his parents bought him art supplies and online tutorials instead of toys. That young man quickly became one of the best photoshop artists in the state of New Mexico. He began to do professional part-time layout and design work at the age of fourteen, while continuing his high school classes and building an impressive resume.

Love and War (a.k.a. Business) We know a couple who are a very successful team financially.

The man is a jeweler and artist. He married a girl who was good at managing business details. He paid for her to go back to school to hone her business accounting and computer skills. They are both doing what they enjoy, and are able to work together as well.

Janie Ryoken enjoys a view from an unfinished $4 million adobe home being built by Corrales builder and artist Bonifacio Gurule.

SO, YOU CAN DO IT TOO Don’t let your education define you, instead, define your education. Sometimes in life we’re given a great opportunity, but mostly we’re offered more debt, more unhealthy lifestyle, and more self-defeating life options. Most “deals” out there are a rip-off at best. So be thoughtful and creative. Be proactive in choosing which way you want to go, and how you’re going to get there. You’ve got yourself to gain or lose.

Janie Ryoken, Novelist and Playwright

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by Nikki Van Slooten

GALLUP DAY TRIP If you’re thinking about a “stay-cation” this summer, but you wonder “What can I actually do around Gallup?”

Maybe you just need to “get out of Dodge,” or you’re visiting from out of town and looking for adventure.

There are many day-trip options for you to consider, and if you’ve got a day, I highly recommend a trip out to Chaco Culture National Historic Park.

about a two-hour drive from Gallup, with the last half an hour on a bumpy dirt road.

When you arrive at Chaco you will need to head to the Visitor’s Center for your pass into the Park. Prices are $16 for a car, $12 for a

Ketl to Pueblo Bonito which allows you to get right up to the canyon wall and see petroglyphs. Pueblo Bonito is the largest of the Chacoan great houses with some 600 rooms four and five stories high. It was in

motorcycle, and $8 for an individual. They do honor Interagency Annual, Military, Senior, Every Kid in a Park, and Access Passes. The Rangers will be happy to help you plan your visit and tell you all about the Park.

The first ruins you can see are right outside of the Visitor’s Center at Una Vida.

From there travel by car on the paved, nine mile loop with the first stop at Hungo Pavi where you walk a short distance to the unexcavated Chacoan great house that contains 150 rooms, a kiva and an enclosed plaza. Continue down the road to Chetro Ketl for the half mile long trip to the second largest Chacoan great house; a trail guide is available here to help inform your tour.

We took the walking trail from Chetro

use from A.D. 850 - 1150. Allow yourself plenty of time to explore Pueblo Bonito and use the trail guide to help you understand what you see and experience. Your tour through the Pueblo is filled with low doors, interesting windows, and imagining life hundreds of years ago. After Pueblo Bonito, you return to your car and continue to Pueblo del Arroyo and Casa Rinconada.

If you are looking to hike in the backcountry you will need to grab a free permit at the trailhead or the Visitor’s Center. All trails are open from sunrise to sunset. Our family of five, including a 10 year old, 8 year old, and 5 year old decided to try the Pueblo Alto Trail which begins at Pueblo Del Arroyo.

Chaco Canyon National Monument was created in 1907, became Chaco Culture National Historical Park in 1980, and in 1987 became a World Heritage Site. The Park is filled with puebloan ruins dating back to the mid-800s and mile after mile of hiking trails.

I took my first trip to Chaco as a college student. I went again when our family first moved to Gallup ten years ago. This spring break we decided it was time to take our kids and enjoy the park through their eyes.

You’ll leave Gallup heading East and take the Thoreau exit heading North toward Crownpoint. The drive through the red rocks and juniper is beautiful, and if you have a traveling companion who enjoys conversation the time passes quickly! It’s

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The entire loop trail is 5.4 miles round trip. We went to Pueblo Alto for a 3.2 mile round trip hike, which included stopping at the Pueblo Bonito Overlook. This hike begins with an elevation gain of about 150 feet in the first 0.1 miles over boulders and in crevices of the canyon walls; while my kids scrambled up like big horned sheep, this was not my favorite part, and if you share my fear of heights and edges, be warned! Once you reach the top of this assent you find yourself on top of the mesa where you can look down over the breathtaking Kin Kletso ruins. The trail is clearly marked to the Pueblo Bonito Overlook and out to the Pueblo Alto and New Alto Ruins. When you reach the ruins, you are rewarded with spectacular views of the San Juan Basin. You can even see the mountains of Colorado off in the distance. This took our family about two hours and gradually gains another 250 feet in elevation.

If you plan to do the entire loop you should give yourself three to four hours so you have plenty of time to explore the sites.

From the Pueblo del Arroyo you can also try the Penasco Blanco Trail with hikes from 3.5 miles to 7.4 miles round trip. This trail is mostly level and provides opportunities to view Pueblo and Navajo petroglyphs and the unexcavated Penasco Blanco at the turn-around point. From the Casa Rinconada trailhead you can hike the South Mesa Trail which takes you out to Tsin Kletsin either 3 miles or 4.1 if you do the entire loop and gains 450 feet in elevation.

You can also hike the Wijiji Trail which is 3 miles round trip and takes you to a later-period Chacoan great house, quite different from the other Chaco sites.

Our family would highly recommend you hike the Pueblo Alto Trail. As with all backcountry hiking, make sure you have plenty of water and salty snacks. We like to pack a little surprise treat to enjoy at the halfway point as a motivation for our kids to keep going when they start to feel hot or tired. The main cause of heat exhaustion and heat stroke is lack of food and water. We saw many people using walking sticks, which seems like a great idea! Pets are allowed on backcountry trails as long as they are leashed. These trails are all quite exposed, so make sure you have sunscreen, hats and sunglasses. Also, it’s a good idea to carry Band-Aids or moleskin with you incase of blisters or scrapes.

On a side-note, if you are the parent of a Fourth Grader your child is eligible for the National Parks Service’s Every Kid in a Park pass which provides fourth graders, and their families, entry into all federal lands and waters through August 31st of this year. We were told by Rangers that they believe this initiative will continue next school year as well! Go on-line to www.nationalparks.org to download your free pass.

We had a great day exploring Chaco, filled with learning, adventure, family and laughter. With its proximity to Gallup, Chaco Culture National Historic Park makes a great day-trip everyone is sure to enjoy! Get out there and see for yourself !

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Events Calendar

Events Calendar

What’s Going On? May

7th

Cinco De Mayo Celebration

Sat.

4th Annual Main Street Festival Downtown Zuni 10am - 5pm Community Food Pantry Pancake Breakfast Fund-raiser Applebee’s 8 - 10am

8th

Mother’s Day

Sun.

10th

Jefferson Good Bye Party Tues. Jefferson School 1-3pm

13th

Fri.

Fort Wingate High School Graduation Fort Wingate Gym 11am UNM-Gallup Graduation Public School Stadium 11am Gallup High School Graduation Public School Stadium 6pm

14th

Sat.

Dawn Til Dusk Gamerco Trails Arts Crawl Downtown Gallup 7pm

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15th

Sun.

19th

The Elden Brass Quintet Church of the Holy Spirit 1334 Country Club Drive 3pm Free Run For the Wall

Thurs.

23rd

Just Move It! Mon. Rehoboth Sports & Fitness Center 6pm

25th

Mon.

26th

Thurs.

Just Move It! Red Rock Chapter House 6pm Rio West Kids Fest Holiday Kick-off Event Rio West Mall 5 - 7pm Rehoboth Christian School Mid School Graduation Rehoboth Church 7pm

28th

Sat.

30th

Rehoboth Christian School Mid School Graduation Sports Fitness Series 2pm VFW Memorial Day Parade

Mon.

Memorial Day Fun Run Summer Nightly Indian Dances begin Manuelito Children’s Home 5K Run Sports Complex 8am

Memorial Day – Monday, May 30, 2016 In commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of the dedication of the Veterans Park and Memorial.

The Gallup-McKinley Veterans Committee will be unveiling the addition of two new Pillars and the updating of some of the glass panels on the existing Pillars on Memorial Day, on Monday, May 30, 2016.

This new addition to the Park was built with funding from the State of New Mexico, McKinley County and the City of Gallup. The new Pillars will stand in testament to those Veterans who served in World War II and Vietnam.

The Veterans Park and Memorial, located in the Courthouse Square, downtown Gallup, was formally dedicated on Monday, May 29, 2006. The memorial is an array of Indian Black Granite glass Pillars depicting the names of all Gallup and McKinley County

Veterans who served beginning with World War I to present. Separate pillars also honor the Navajo Code Talkers, The Bataan Death March Veterans along with Hershey Miyamura, Korean War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient.

THE DAY’S ACTIVITIES ALSO INCLUDE: 9:00am Observance Ceremony in the Veterans Plot at Hillcrest Cemetery 10:30am Parade through downtown Gallup 11:00am Unveiling of the New Pillars and the Official Ceremony at Veterans Park and Memorial Invited guest speakers are Jackie McKinney, Mayor, City of Gallup, NM State Representative Patty Lundstrom, NM State Senator George Munoz and a representative from McKinley County.

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Dream, Believe, Build!

New local businesses improve our local economy.The right business could possibly keep visiting tourists here just a little bit longer. Plus, it just might allow us to enjoy our town a little bit more than we already do.This is what Dream Believe Build is all about. Dreaming about businesses that would make Gallup better, believing they would be viable and building them.

Imagine heading to Moab, Utah for the weekend and they didn’t have a bike shop. This high desert town is known for its world famous slick rock, and mountain bikers from around the world make the journey to this town of 5,000 people. Don’t worry, this small town has eight (count them), eight bike shops.

Dirt isn’t your thing. How about some water time? Take your family to Durango, Colorado and you will find a river running through it. Now imagine getting there and you can’t find a shop that rents kayaks, or a business that offers river-rafting adventures. Don’t worry they have over a half-dozen shops that will handle your needs.

Starting to get the idea? These towns, along with hundreds of others not mentioned, promote their assets with related businesses.

Now imagine you have decided to visit The Adventure Capital of New Mexico for the weekend. In case you do not know where that is, it is right here, Gallup, New Mexico. Now that you are here you are looking for the businesses to supply you with the gear you will need to explore our world-class trails and climbing areas. Sorry, but it seems Gallup has only one bike shop, Sportsworld. Seems we are in need of much more to build our Adventure Capital of New Mexico brand.

BELIEVE The property is being sold for $275,000. This is no small investment. We also haven’t considered the cost of the parking lot, retail building and the trail building cost to make this dream a reality. The construction of a warehouse style building around 5000 square feet is going to cost around $200,000 to $400,000.

Your new parking lot along with the trail building could add another $50,000 to $75,000.

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DREAM You will find a piece of property for sale right on Route 66 that has over five acres of open space. I can picture it right now. A big and beautiful paved parking area to accommodate the customers. The parking lot leads you to the new Gallup Adventure Company building that is filled with trail running, hiking, climbing and biking equipment. Things like Camel Backs, backpacks, camping gear, hiking shoes and outdoor clothing can now be found in Gallup, New Mexico. Online orders that economically drain our community can be a thing of the past. Customer service, try before you buy and staff that actually uses the trails you use… I’m so there.

We talked about the property being over five acres. The parking lot and building are only going to take up a small portion of this property. What do you do with the rest of naturally landscaped property? It is an easy decision. Build some trails on the property and let your customers try out their new gear. Plus you will find a small rock face that could be turned into a climbing wall. Let the community use the trails much like we use the UNM, Gallup trail.

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Artist concept of a Gallup Adventre Company by Joseph Rising

Next, you will have to go out and secure vendors to supply your store. This is going to be done with your personal credit history.

Most of these vendors are going to offer some type of terms. Meaning that you are not going to have to pay for the merchandise up front but over a time period. Maybe something like 90 days.

The real question is whether the new Gallup Adventure Company can earn enough money to pay for the merchandise and its new commercial loan for building the business. Summer months when tourist season is in high swing and Christmas will be your busy season? Marketing will be very important, as well as local support. I believe we locals will be more than happy to head down to our beloved Gallup Adventure Company to buy our gear.

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For one person this would be an awful lot of financial risk. A group of people might think about tackling this opportunity as a partnership where risk can be reduced.

Not only will these reduce financial risk, but it could add voices to the decision making process. Having investors with different areas of expertise is only going to make BUILD this a better business.

This could be a real business with successful Another possible partnership would be an results. It not only begins to promote Gallup alliance with Sportsworld. Todd Costley has as the real Adventure Capital of New Mexico, been in the bike business for 30 years and but also starts the transformation of the knows a thing or two about the business. community culture into the outdoors types.

Plus, he carries Specialized Bicycles, which You don’t travel to Moab and Durango have a great reputation and marketing without being surrounded by mountain bikers, campaign. Creating some arrangement with hikers, kayakers and outdoor enthusiasts.

Sportsworld bikes’ being available at the new Gallup Adventure Company would be a step forward in building our reputation as the real Adventure Capital of New Mexico.

DREAM, BELIEVE, BUILD! Send your business ideas to Jason@gallupjourney and I might use them in the next Dream Believe Build article.

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Gallup is excited to welcome another type of Public Charter School to our community. Six Directions School is a free public school, open to any New Mexico resident. It began as a group of concerned educators, parents, and community members who wanted to see a new way to imagine the school experience for Native Youth in and around the Gallup area.

Receiving the go for a charter school is not one easy task.

It began work in the fall of 2014 and completed almost 90 one-onone meetings with parents, educators, non-profit service providers, and policy makers. Numerous presentations were done and received feedback at local chapter houses: the McKinley Community Health Alliance, the Indian Education Committee and others. Public planning meetings were held along with building strong partnerships with the National Indian Youth Leadership Project. All of this work, and listening to so many people’s stories about their schooling experiences, influenced the design of our school and our final charter application, which was submitted in July 2015. The public hearing in August 2015 was an important moment for the new school, and the positive feedback was one of the reasons cited by the Public Eduction Commission when they chose to approve the school by an 8-1 vote last September. This made SDIS one of the only two schools approved in the whole state.

An open enrollment is taking place now for grades 6th and 7th and will grow one grade each year until we serve 6th through 12th grades.

THE MISSION STATEMENT: The Six Directions Indigenous School will use restorative practices and culturally responsive methodologies to encourage critical thinking and community engagement, nurture holistic wellbeing,

Restorative Practices • We are committed to building fair and equal relationships between staff, students, administration, families, and our Governing Council through daily Advisory, community-building circles, and active Family Advisory Committee, and a Faculty Committee.

• We are committed to utilizing Restorative Justice Conferencing to respond to conflicts or wrong-doing so that students stay in school rather than being suspended or expelled.

Why come to SDIS? • It’s different! We add a unique and innovative school model to the options in Gallup.

• To go to a small school with a close-knit and supportive community.

• Students will have rigorous academic support in a way that values their culture and language.

• To be prepared to succeed in college

First day of school will be August 11th and inspire students to set and attain their post-secondary goals.

OUR MODEL: Culturally Responsive Schooling We are committed to ensuring students’ cultural identities are seen as assets and are represented in the curriculum we create by: • Providing Native language instruction • Utilizing Project-based Learning methodology that is interdisciplinary and focused on local history, literature, ecologies, etc.

• Providing opportunities for communitybased service learning • We are committed to a rigorous academic program that ensures students the opportunity to thrive after high school.

Holistic Wellness We are committed to attending to students’ social, emotional, relational, physical, intellectual and spiritual wellness through: • Creating a wellness framework and encouraging student reflection and goalsetting • Outdoor experiential education with the National Indian Youth Leadership Project

LOCATED AT: Western New Mexico University Governing Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month at 5:30 at the National Indian Youth Leadership Project (305 Sunde Street, Gallup) Please visit this website for more information: Website: www.sixdirectionsschool.org Email: admin@sixdirectionsschool.org Phone: 505-263-9737

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Memories of Gallup

An Interview with John Rains, Jane Polich and John Mraz Part 1 of 2

John Rains, Jane Polich and John Mraz graduated from Gallup High in 1961 when the high school was on Grandview where Gallup Mid is now.

GALLUP HIGH ON GRANDVIEW Of the Grandview site, John says, “It was a high school for seven years and then we outgrew it because of all of the babies that were born after World War II, and at that time they built a dormitory west of town, Manuelito Hall, that brought Native American students into Gallup. So that caused the school to be too small within seven years. It was probably the shortest amount of time that a building had been a

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high school before being outgrown. There had been a three story building north of where the football field is now that was the high school before that was the high school for about thirty years.”

Regarding the Grandview site, Jane adds, “We didn’t have the library. The gym was the same, but the library was different.”

John Rains says, “And the cafeteria. We didn’t have a cafeteria. Everybody had to either bring a sack lunch or run home.”

RACING THE TRAIN AFTER LUNCH AT HOME John Mraz says, “I lived over on Sullivan on the Northside and may times

we would run home for lunch and we’d listen for the east bound freight train that would come through about every fifteen minutes or so. Whenever it would hit Third Street and start blowing its horn, I’d take off and make a mad dash through the perky and come out the other side, maybe beating the train by a hundred yards or so.”

Jane says, “Shorty (Sandoval) says you used to crawl through the train, through the cars.”

BERT GIOVANETTI’S STORE Mraz responds, “No, no, no. Not me, but many, many days we would run home.

Other times we would go over to Bert Giovennetti’s little store.”

“Right there north of the football field,” says John Rains.

“About a block from Cathedral,” adds John Rains.

“On Cliff, I think. The one that goes behind Cathedral,” says Jane.

“About half way up from where Brett Newberry’s office is now and on the East Side,” says John Mraz.

“It was a little ol’ store. They had a butcher shop there and they would slice off a couple slices of bologna and sell you a couple of slices of bread. People would make their own sandwiches,” says John Rains.

“He got into making the sandwiches and had them in a grocery cart,” says John Mraz.

A forearm to the nose from a future All Pro. The conversation shifts to sports and Jane says, “There was quite a school rivalry with Farmington. Ever since I can remember, Gallup hated Farmington. You know it’s still the same.”

John Rains says, “I played against Ralph Neely.” Neely played for Farmington and went on to become an All Pro offensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys for thirteen years. He was listed as being 6’6” and 265 pounds.

“The year before I saw a guy get his teeth kicked out up in Farmington. Jimmy Saucedo got all his teeth knocked out and they couldn’t find a dentist so he had to come all the way back to Gallup. Our helmets at the time only had one protective face bar. You had a choice of putting it over your nose or over your teeth.

I put it over my teeth because I didn’t want to have my teeth knocked out like Jimmy Saucedo. Sure enough, on the first play of scrimmage Neely nailed me in the nose with a forearm and I was bleeding.

Neely whipped me bad, but I stayed in and played the whole game. That guy was good.”

To be continued next month

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Driving Impressions

SPECIFICATIONS

2016 Ford Explorer Sport

Vehicle Type: Front-engine, 4-wheel-drive, 6-passenger, 4-door hatchback Base Price: $44,445 Price As Tested: $47,930 Engine Type: Twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 24-valve V-6, aluminum block and heads, direct fuel injection Displacement: 213 cu in, 3496 cc Power: 365 hp @ 5500 rpm Torque: 350 lb-ft @ 3500 rpm Transmission: 6-speed automatic with manual shifting mode DIMENSIONS: Wheelbase: 112.8 in Length: 198.3 in Width: 78.9 in Height: 71.0 in Passenger volume: 150 cu ft Cargo volume: 21 cu ft Curb weight: 4939 lb FUEL ECONOMY: EPA city/highway/ combined: 16/22/18 mpg

By my count there are exactly two vehicles that fall into this category... let’s call this category the “not-a-giant-SUV-but-still-has-power-and-can-tow-thingscategory.” Those two vehicles are the Dodge Durango Hemi, and this, the 2016 Ford Explorer Sport. The key thing to know here is that this Ford Explorer is using the 3.5 liter direct-injected all-aluminum twin turbocharged V6 EcoBoost with a 6-speed automatic transmission. Making 365 horsepower at 5000 RPM and 350 lb.-ft of torque at 3000 RPM powertrain is a powerhouse. I tested an Explorer with the standard 3.5 V6 way back in September of 2011, and as with this one, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Now to be clear, many vehicle manufacturers use the term “Sport” to denote a lower trim line, sometimes with a larger engine, but not always. That is not the case here. In this case, the terms Sport actually refers to their second highest trim level only surpassed by the Premium model which is loaded to the hilt. This Sport model does come pretty loaded as well and the as-tested price of just under $48K

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“I have the power!”

shows that. It’s got everything from all the tech you need for safety features to heated seats and a dual moonroof that is just giant, to power third-row folding and storing seats. In fact, the third-row’s power folding seats are such a great show in and of itself that it’s probably worth the extra cost simply for entertainment value. But if you would find yourself moving that third row from storage to seating capacity frequently, I can see that power folding third row as a really great option.

Speaking of the third row, let’s get something clear here: if you need a ton of space for hauling people in the most comfort, get a minivan. However, that’s not to say the Explorer is not a great family vehicle. The Explorer uses the same layout that I have in my personal vehicle, a Ford Freestyle, and it works for our family of six quite well, but with one key difference. My Ford Freestyle uses bucket seats in the second row captain’s chairs, as they’re typically called; this allows kids to easily walk between them to get to the third row. This Ford Explorer however, has seven-passenger seating, meaning that it does not have buckets in the second row,

but a 60/40 folding bench. While this does give you more passenger capacity, it makes getting into that second row a good bit harder. If you need to have any kind of booster or child seat in the second row, it becomes even harder to fold those seats, so it’s a really important thing to keep in mind if you’re going to use that third row often. With the third row in storage mode however, the Explorer is especially good for a family of five or smaller. In that situation you have a very comfortable second row and a generous cargo area for all your gear.

Worth noting with the Explorer Sport is its tow 5000 pound tow rating. Typically you don’t want to max out the towing capacity of any vehicle that you’re towing with often. I have no doubt, however, that the 3.5 liter twin turbo V6 can move that 5000 pounds pretty easily. I would think that someone like myself, who could possibly tow something like a pop-up camper or maybe a small utility trailer, the Explorer Sport would be perfect. Given the EcoBoost’s flood of torque at all RPM, you probably wouldn’t even know your trailer is back there. So if you’re looking for a crossover style vehicle for towing, not a full body on frame large SUV, you need to strongly consider this Explorer Sport.

The 2016 Ford Explorer has been given a proper mid-cycle refresh aesthetically. Parked next to a 2011-2015 model, the 2016 is more refined with sophisticated lines, new headlights and grill and is an all-around more handsome vehicle. So handsome, in fact, that some are referring to the front end of this as Land Rover-like. An apt comparison, and quite a compliment.

On the inside, the Ford Explorer uses a handsome yet understated interior. If you need true interior bling, the Sport is not for you... the Premium is your ride. Now that’s not to say the Sport is an austere place. It uses great quality materials, has attractive metal and carbon fiber accents, good-looking gauges,

and a nice infotainment package from Sony. Speaking of the infotainment package, I only had one real gripe.

In order to access the vent controls for the HVAC system you have to go to the screen, there are no hard buttons for determining where the air comes out except for defrost. This may seem like a small thing, however if you are backing out of your driveway in the morning, the rear camera will be on and you will not have access to the vents. Like many people, it was hot when you parked your car and you likely forgot to turn the vents down. Now, it’s a cold New Mexico morning and you have cold air blasting in your face.

Your options are either to turn down the fan speed, turn off the climate control or raise the temperature and hope that heats up soon. Not a deal breaker, but not as convenient as hard buttons either.

All in all I have to say this Ford Explorer is a very compelling package, it’s nice to drive a crossover SUV with this much muscle. Everything else in this category, like the Highlander, Acadia, and the smaller engine in the Durango, make around 300hp (or less), making the powertrain here alone a strong selling point. Combined with the Explorer Sport’s bigger wheels, sport tuned suspension and faster ratio steering, all of these things add up to a package that just feels all around a little more athletic than the competition. While not a canyon carver, it makes an enjoyable vehicle to drive on a day-to-day basis.

This combination is unique in the broad segment, making the Sport well worth your time to give it a proper test drive.

A special thanks to Gurley Motors for the test drive To see the Explorer Sport in Gallup, watch my video review on Youtube. Just search for “Gallup Journey Test Drives”

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Piecing It Together: Befriended

By Marcus Martza

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he rough hues of emerald pine trees blurred past with There was a sharp cut in my rant, leaving only the hum of a pause for a clear patch of chestnut colored sand and the engine. I could sense my parents giving each other a glance rocks, the rush of land was my only entertainment of concern before the silence is broken. through Vanderwagen. It’s been a while since I’ve been in Gallup.

“So, to the mall it is,” my dad jokingly said, breaking the The last time I was here was before life went a little haywire. tension.

It all seems like a lifetime ago. *** I feel a pat on my knee, breaking me from my gaze. I pull off my headphones and turn to the front of the car, to find my There is an odd, eerie silence as I enter in the JCPenny of mother tapping my knee, grabbing my attention. the Rio West Mall. Like the silence of a library was shoved “Em’, you don’t want to hang out with any friends while inside a clothing store. I shrug and make my way through the we shop?” my dad asked as he lifted his hand off the steering aisles 606 E. Hwy 66 • (505) 722-3845 fourcornerswelding.com Like us on wheel to rub his shaved head.

I grab a ruby jacket in my size off the rack and try it Facebook! on.

I chuckled harshly, “They’re probably all busy.”

The soft cotton feels comforting against my cold arms and it “Come on, Sweetie, one of your friends should be free,” my fit snug against my form as I zipped it up. It was the perfect dad noted with hope. jacket, until “Hmm…well let’s take count,” I sat up and cleared my I saw the price. throat. “Teddy’s off in some other state getting a better “Forty-eight dollars?!” I shout as I slowly unzip the jacket off. education and probably forgot about me from all the friends he As my arm slips out the sleeve, I listen in on the overhead made there, Seamus is in an oh-so-loving relationship, focused speakers. I hear the familiar bang of electric drums as the on his job, and supporting his girlfriend, and Clara’s busy with synthesizer chimes in with a familiar tune. I smile wide and graduation obligations. Everyone’s busy with life, and I don’t swing my hips to the beat of the drums as I take the jacket off. want to bother them I’ll just get in the way.”

“We’re no strangers to love…” I sing quietly.

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“ You know the rules, and so do I.” a woman’s voice sang behind me.

“A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of.” I turn around to the person.

“You wouldn’t get this from any other guy,” the young lady sang. Her peach skin shimmered under the rough florescent light, her short, scarlet hair bobbed along to the music, and her bright, amber eyes lit up with flare as she sang.

“I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling,” I smile.

“Gotta make you understand,” We sing the line in unison, creating a perfect harmony.

She instantly grabs my hand, leading me to the walkway. She raises her arms in the air, and shakes her hips to the melody, dancing wildly. I watch and join, twirling around gracefully.

“Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down,” she grabbed my arm and led me down the walkway, toward the entrance of the store.

“Never gonna run around, and desert you,” She twirled me around, grasping onto the jacket to pull me back. She slowly waltzed me out of the store with her. As we exited, we heard the claps and cheers.

She grabbed me tightly and whispered in my ear, “Let’s go quick, we just stole forty and sixty dollar jackets.” *** The young lady came back from the Orange Julius with two cups in her hand. “Did you even pay for these?” I took the cup.

“Oh, honey,” she ruffled her ruby locks of hair, “when you have a way with words, you can get anything.”

I could feel my face blush a little and stuttered out, “Oh, w-what’s your name?”

She took a big sip of the smoothie, grinned, and said, “The name’s Anastasia, but you can call me Ana for short. What’s your name, Sweet Pea?” “I’m Emily, but most people call me Em’,” I said taking a sip.

“Most people? What do the other people call you? ‘ily?” she said laughing out loud.

I sat there nervously.

“Okay,” Ana set down her drink, “so obviously you still got the jitters after our big heist. What brings ya into G-town?”

“Want the short version or the long?” I smile nervously.

She takes a short pause, “Let me guess, you wanted to get out of the house because you no longer have a purpose functioning as an adolescent and you have to face the real world of adulthood due to the fact that your college let you down and now you’re stuck back where you started. Am I right?”

I sat shocked at the accuracy of it all, “How d-did you know?”

“Let’s just say we share the same problem, Em’. Also, your face says it all. Trust me, after hearing of your friends’ success in life so many times, you tend to wear that face a lot.”

I hang my head low and say, “Or when everyone constantly asks you what you are doing with your life, week after week.”

“Or when your friends constantly post pictures of their life in order with kids and relationships,” there was a glimmer of excitement in her eyes.

“Oh my gosh! Yes!” I said laughing hard. “I need a friend like you in my life.

Someone who knows how this feels!”

She grabbed a napkin and pen and began to write numbers on it and handed it to me, “Well how about you give that number a call sometime and we can hang out and be lazy bums together.”

I smile wide and grab the number eagerly.

“Come on, stop being mushy and let’s go cause chaos in Hot Topic,” Ana grabbed my hand and began to run.

I followed, rushing past all the people, leaving behind a blur of people. Although my normal friends are busy with life, I’m not alone. With people like Anastasia, sharing the same mindset and ideas, I f ind that there is always a friend looking out for me. After all, a new stranger is always a new opportunity for friendship.

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GALLUP READS PROGRAM Help Them Learn To Read And You Can Open New Worlds Now just finishing its second year, the Gallup Reads Program matches volunteers from the community with kindergarteners. Our tutors help children learn to love reading. By spending a little over an hour a week during the school year, a tutor makes a major difference in children’s lives.

WHAT IS INVOLVED? Sponsored by the Gallup-McKinley County Chamber of Commerce and Gallup McKinley County Schools, Gallup Reads involves matching tutors with kindergarten students at a participating school.

Tutoring sessions include working with two children for thirty minutes each on reading, writing, and skill development. All sessions are structured and tutors will be guided on what to do. Tutor sessions over the last year were on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:15 – 10:30 at Stagecoach Elementary.

WHAT IF I CAN’T COMMIT TO AN HOUR EACH WEEK? Companies can submit teams of 2-4 individuals to cover the three days each week. Tutors or tutor teams need to commit to assuring that a tutor is present for each tutoring session, so that the students receive the benefit of consistent one-on-one weekly reading practice.

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Rico Auto Complex 220 S 5th St (505) 722-2271

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UNM 705 Gurley Ave (505) 863-7500

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Rehoboth Christian School Rehoboth, NM (505) 863-4412

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Sacred Heart Cathedral 415 E Green Ave (505) 722-6644

Entertainment

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Cocina De Dominguez 1648 S 2nd St (505) 863-9640

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Ancient Way Cafe and Outpost 4018 NM-53, Ramah, NM 87321 (505) 783-4612

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La Montañita Co-op Food Market 105 E Coal Ave (505) 863-5383

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Don Diego’s Restaurant 801 Historic Rte 66 (505) 722-5517

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Sizzler 926 US-491 (505) 722-6498

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Sammy C’s Rock N’ Sports Pub & Grille 107 W Coal Ave (505) 863-2220

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Coal Street Pub 303 W Coal Ave (505) 722-0117

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El Morro Theater & Native Film Festival 207 W Coal Ave (505) 863-1250

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Virgie’s Restaurant & Lounge 2720 West Historic Highway 66 (505) 863-5152

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Gallup Aquatic Center – Triathlon 620 Boardman Dr (505) 726-5460

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Silver Stallion Coffee & Bread 213b W Coal Ave (505) 488-2908

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iHeart Media 1632 S 2nd St (505) 863-9391

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Fratelli’s Pizza Bistro and Ice Creamery 1209 North Highway 491 (505) 863-9201

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Manuelito Navajo Children’s Home – Race 12 Theta St (505) 863-5530

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Richardson’s Trading Co. & Cash Pawn 222 W Historic Hwy 66 (505) 722-4762

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Millennium Media 300 W Aztec Ave # 200 (505) 863-6851

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ART123 Gallery 123 W Coal Ave (505) 722-4383

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Bill Malone Trading 235 W Coal Ave (505) 863-3401

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Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe 306 S 2nd St (505) 722-5017

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Gallup Business Improvement District 2025 W. Coal Ave (505) 722-4430

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Gallup-McKinley County Chamber of Commerce 106 W Historic Rte 66 (505) 722-2228

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Benjamin Franklin Plumbing 3100 E Aztec (505) 726-9519

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Clay Fultz Insurance 201 E Aztec (505) 722-4476

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Elite Laundry & Dry Cleaners 208 Historic Rte 66 (505) 863-9543

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Gallup Custom Tinting 110 South Third Street (505) 722-2388

Hilton Garden Inn Gallup 1530 W Maloney Ave (505) 722-9600

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Rio West Mall 1300 West I-40 Frontage Road (505) 722-7281

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Work

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Theodore Roosevelt

by Jay Mason

Next year I will have worked at the same job for 40 years. There is an attorney in Gallup (Walter Wolf ) who has done the same for over 55 years. I don’t know where the time goes but it seems to go even faster now. I have been fortunate to work in a field that does not take its toll on your body, but it is not stress free. Most people want to work for their family and for their own self respect.

However, around here there are many people who cannot find employment.

Hopefully the economy will improve soon and jobs will be created.

So what is the nature of work? There are many modern jobs that are not necessarily good for the persons who fill them. Some people work at a job just out of necessity. Ideally as a young person you search for a field that is attractive to you. You get the requisite training or education and follow your dream.

Hopefully it is what God has called you to do. That is what the word “vocation” means - “vocare” or “to call”.

Robert Frost in his beautiful poem “Two Tramps in Mud Time” talks about vocations. He describes a man splitting wood when two tramps come by and one lingers behind. The tramp implies that he would like to do the same work for pay.

The man surmises that the tramp thinks it is his right to cut the wood since he used to be a lumberjack. The man agrees that he has the better right, but he also remembers his own love of splitting wood and concludes:

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future’s sakes.

That is the ideal – when our vocation and avocation are one. That does not happen very often in the modern workplace, but it is not impossible. For most of my life I have loved what I do. I have been very fortunate to help many people (some in desperate situations) with legal knowledge and skill. There is a satisfaction that comes from that experience.

I first learned how to work from a family friend, Tommy Lee Hamilton. He was a huge man. He had such big hands, and I soon learned that he could do anything with those hands. Tommy Lee Hamilton was born in Burkburnett, Texas and only completed the third grade. I didn’t learn until I was in my 60’s, that Tommy Lee had really never learned to read. Born a poor black child in Texas, ninety years ago, it did not surprise me, although he hid that deficiency very well. Tommy Lee could build or fix anything. He built a playhouse for my sister

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and me when we were very young. It even had electricity. We spent many hours in that playhouse imagining our futures and enjoying the innocence that should come with childhood.

My mom sent me out with Tommy Lee on Saturdays when I was eight years old. I didn’t know then that her real reason was to teach me how to work, and boy did I learn fast. Tommy Lee cleaned yards, did landscaping and repaired and maintained all kinds of things. He loved what he did and did his job well.

He tolerated my presence and took the time to teach me how to do things well, even the grunt jobs like picking weeds and sweeping sidewalks. Tommy Lee only stopped working when he could no longer walk. The lessons I learned from Tommy Lee about work have helped me over and over again during my life.

Over 150 years ago, an English essayist and social commentator, Thomas Carlyle was living the Industrial Revolution where people were treated as small cogs in the big gears of huge factories. Working conditions were less than ideal, and the ordinary worker had a difficult life. In the United States the conditions are much better today. But Thomas Carlyle hearkened back to a time when work was a noble undertaking:

For there is a perennial nobleness, even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair…. a man perfects himself by working.

– Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

Every office I have had in Gallup was blessed before we went to work in it. Our current office is a special place because it was originally someone’s home. George and Helen Kraker raised six children in our office, and they were all born there. When we bought the house, one of those children, Martha Corcoran, was then in here nineties and at the Little Sisters. It was her house long before it was our office. Before it was remodeled, the house had fallen on hard times, and Martha cried tears of joy when she saw what we had done. But I digress. During the blessing we prayed that God would direct us to work hard, but more importantly to serve people in their time of need. You may have to be the bearer of bad news to a client; it is not always a pleasant experience. And one thing about practicing law in Gallup is that you will see your client again, for better or worse. In the big city you can perform a service for someone and never see them again. In Gallup that is not true. You will see them at church, a ballgame or the grocery store. So you better try to do the best you can.

What is wrong with the world? For one thing more of us need to be working.

There is much more good work that needs to be done.

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My wife and I didn’t want to do it, but we folded. We lied to ourselves to make us feel better. Telling each other that we are responsible adults by purchasing our twelve year old their own cellphone. After all we didn’t want our precious child to be in an emergency and not be able to get in touch with us. Yeah, we are being the perfect parents by keeping our child safe.

Over the next four years we were fortunate enough to have no emergencies and our child has been kept safe. During this time she has become an expert at using her phone. She has become an online social butterfly spending endless hours staying in touch with her friends and making sure she knows everything that is going on in her circle.

Now she is 16 and getting ready to get her drivers license. Of course with this great responsibility comes great concern

for the safety of our child, once again.

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Veteran’s Corner

Eliane Dartois Zanardi Digregorio WWII French War Bride It was in the tiny country village of Bétheniville in the Region of Champagne-Ardenne, France that construction of an air field began in 1935. After three inactive years, only disturbed by a few aircraft landing, the airfield suddenly came to full life in September 1939 when war was declared against Germany. It was a farming community where the French Army along with the Royal Air Force had utilized the farmer’s fields to construct the air field. It was here that 14year old Eliane Dartois lived with her parents, four other sisters and tiny little brother.

We sat at Eliane’s kitchen table here in Gallup as she recalled details of the beginning of WWII. Her beautiful French accent is still very evident after these many years in the United States.

Eliane quietly explained, “Bétheniville was very close to the boarder of Germany. The RAF fighter planes would take off from the air field heading out for attacks, and just a short time later, we would hear the BOOM, BOOM of the bombs being dropped on Germany. Most of the fighter planes would complete their mission, but it was a sad sight when a big flare would light up the sky to indicate that a plane had not made it back home.”

“I was old enough to understand what was happening,” Eliane said, “but I was too young to recognize the extent of the danger and the full implications of the war.” But all that came to startling reality when they were told by the French Army that they must vacate their home because the Germans were coming. Eliane vividly recalled, “It was a Sunday and my family and I were eating chicken and drinking wine when there was a pounding on the door. We were told by our French soldiers to leave NOW. We were able to pack only a small suitcase for each of us and to grab our coats and get loaded onto an old bus.” It was not too far along the road when that bus broke down and everyone climbed off and started walking down the road carrying their suitcase and coat, all the while German planes were flying low overhead. The group realized that they were not safe traveling during the day, so they would hide in ditches and under trees during daylight and continue walking through the night. “There was a time when we were hiding in a ditch close to a lake and German bombs were dropping all around us. We could hear the booms and feel the earth shake from the bombs, but we were thankfully never hit,” Elaine said with a shudder.

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“Finally we reached the train that would take us to South France and the ocean, and we traveled for several days. The thing I remember most intensely there at the ocean was all the mosquitos;

they were feasting on all of us new to the area, and the people who lived there by the ocean could not understand why we were so tasty,” Eliane explained as she brushed imaginary mosquitos from her arms. “Thankfully, we did not have to stay too long; probably about six months. We picked peaches during our time there to earn money for boarding and food.

Then we again traveled by train to return back to Bétheniville. But life became very different when the Dartois family returned back home. Eliane’s little brother was only six, and he had contracted meningitis and he died, bringing great grief to the family during this time of war all around them.

The German’s had overtaken their little town and watched everyone constantly. Mr. Dartois liked to listen to the news from London on his radio, but that was not allowed by the Germans. So it was the duty of one of the five sisters to be the lookout at the window to watch for the German guards. When a guard would get close to their home, the girls would tell their father to turn off the radio; as soon as the guard was far enough away again, Mr. Dartois would

by Sandra McKinney immediately turn the radio back on.

Along with the farms of Bétheniville, there were two factories that made cloth fabric. One of the factories was owned by a Jewish man. “For quite some time the Germans must not have known he was Jewish, but one evening he went missing and his wife never saw him again, she only found his eye glasses crushed on the ground,” Eliane sadly explained and she shook her head. “It was a horrible thing to see the trains when they would stop at Bétheniville to get water for the steam engine; you could see that the many, many Jewish people were standing packed into the train freight cars, and you could often see blood dripping from the bottom of the cars. It was a ghastly time, and terrified us all,” she said with wide eyes. “Many of the German officers learned to speak French or English and they would dress in Allied Uniforms from dead soldiers and knock on doors, trying to pose as friends, but they were actually trying to catch us harboring a Jew or doing something else they thought to be wrong.” During the German occupation, the young children were brain-washed by the many German guards to report their parents if they did anything wrong.

Thankfully, when the United States also entered into the war, times changed. The Allied Forces were winning the war then after several years. The little village was now protected by the French Army, Royal Air Force and American troops. Many of the Germans who were walking back to Germany would steal bicycles, horses, or anything they could use for transportation. A prison camp was built there at Bétheniville which housed many German prisoners of war. With fighting, bombs and German occupation behind them, there was time again for some happiness. Often, the Americans would hold dances at the church hall and invite troops from all around to attend. The German prisoners would happily provide the music for the dances! Big Army trucks would bring soldiers from many small communities all around to come participate in the fun. Eliane had learned to be a beautician and would fix her hair and for many of the ladies so they could look pretty for the dances. One such dance brought U.S. Army Pvt. Angelo Zanardi to Bétheniville and he was very attracted to young Eliane Dartois. He would return many times for the dances and to just visit this beautiful young woman.

Shortly before it was time for Zanardi to return

to the United States, he asked for the hand of Eliane Dartois in marriage. Eliane laughs when she explains, “My older sister Sylviane went to see the French Catholic priest and had him contact Fr. Ardy at the Catholic Church in Gallup in the United States to learn about the Zanardi family. My parents did not disapprove; they liked Angelo, but they were sad that I would be moving so far away.” In France, a couple must be married first by the mayor of the community, and once that is done, then they have a marriage ceremony in the Church. After the wedding, Zanardi shipped back home and Eliane was left there in France for about five months to arrange her papers and all her travel itinerary to America. There were thousands of young war brides who were doing the same thing; they had each been swept off their feet by the American soldiers (and soldiers of others countries, as well). It was arranged to group the young women by where Eliane as a school girl in Béthaneville with others before the war. She is the second from the right. they would be traveling and they all boarded different ships to carry them to their supper for the family. Her son Pete said his mom was always a hard-working destinations. Eliane traveled with another lady (Helen) who was from Belgium. partner to his dad, plus a loving and caring mother. “She never complained about When they got off the ship in New York they ended up having to stay there for a the work, the time in the bars, or the heat of the laundromat. I really admire my while as the train workers were on strike. Eliane and Helen were eventually able mom for all that she did for the family,” Pete said with pride. to travel by train to Gallup, New Mexico and arrived in 1946 to an entirely new They worked hard and set aside savings; the children did well in school and life with their new husbands. Eliane and Helen would remain friends here in life progressed. Pete joined the Air Force, Toni got married and moved to Gallup until the time of Helen’s passing.

Albuquerque. Angelo and Eliane were blessed to be able to retire at an early Upon arriving here in the U.S., many people suddenly changed her French age. Angelo was 50 and enjoying retirement when tragedy struck as Angelo was name of Eliane to that of Elaine. She will answer to both, but I personally think diagnosed with lung cancer. He fought valiantly against the dreaded disease, but the French pronunciation is very beautiful. “I didn’t speak English when I got succumbed to the lung cancer when he was only 53. The tears welled in Eliane’s here,” Eliane said. “Angelo had learned to speak French during the war and that eyes as she said, “Pete was stationed at the Alamogordo Air Base, and Angelo was the only way I could communicate. I would speak to him in French and his wanted to see Pete before he died. Pete drove from Alamogordo to Albuquerque family would speak to him in English and Angelo would share all the words back and arrived just two hours before Angelo passed.” Eliane, Toni and Pete were all and forth that we spoke. It was a confusing, but fun time to be learning so many there with him when Angelo died. Eliane had not learned to drive a car in all the new things about my new home and new in-laws. Communication became easier years before, but during Angelo’s illness, Toni had insisted that she learn to drive. when I eventually learned English.” Angelo went to work for the United States This was now a time of loneliness, but also of independence as she learned new Postal Service for several years upon his return from the war. The young couple skills to care for herself without her husband. had two children, Antoinette “Toni” and Pete. Angelo’s sister Mary and brotherAfter several years as a widow, Eliane met a retired Gallup fireman, Freddie in-law Charlie owned “Charlie’s Bar” in Lupton, Arizona. The young family DiGregorio. They were married in a nice ceremony at Gallup Fire Station #1 with moved to Lupton to take over Charlie’s Bar. The kids started grade school in Toni and Pete as attendants, and also with friends and many firemen approving Sanders, Arizona. Eliane was also attending school at this time to become a U.S. the union. This was a time when Eliane found a new social life as she and Freddie Citizen. She is very proud of her American citizenship, but she has also found attended dances and went out to dinner with friends. They shared several good the opportunity to travel back to France to see family, plus her sisters came to the years together, but tragically, Freddie also succumbed to lung cancer, leaving Eliane United States to visit. (She still has one sister and nieces and a nephew in France.) a second-time widow. That evil cancer was to play part in another tragic loss when They soon realized the children needed schooling in Gallup, so they sold the bar her daughter Toni also lost her battle to lung cancer eleven years ago at the age of in Lupton and moved back to Gallup and bought a nice home in the Mossman 58. “Losing my daughter was the most difficult time of my life,” Eliane stated with area. Eliane and Angelo then purchased tears in her eyes. two different bars in Gallup that they There have been many heartbreaking times for this lovely woman from would operate together for several years Bétheniville, France, but her positive and giving attitude keeps her going. She until they sold the bars and purchased still lives on her own, still drives her little car here locally to the grocery store or a laundromat which was again a team to visit a couple of friends at Little Sisters of the Poor. There are nuns at Little operation. Their life together was Sisters who speak French, and she enjoys speaking her beautiful native language always one of teamwork. Whatever with them. She has not been back to France in quite a while, as her last trip was new enterprise Angelo started, Eliane with her daughter Toni. But she speaks in French often by telephone with her was working with him side-by-side, surviving sister, nephew and nieces who still live in France. Her best friends now plus raising the children. Eliane would are her son, Pete, who lives here in Gallup, and her grand-daughter Patricia and get the kids up in the mornings, make great-grandson Bruce, who live in Albuquerque. Eliane has always worked hard breakfast and get them off to school, and has been willing to help and give to all those around her. She survived a war while Angelo went to work early and and tragic times in her home country, lost her little brother at a very young age, got the day’s business started. Later on lost her parents and three sisters, all of her in-laws, out-lived two husbands and in the day, he would pick up Eliane and her own beloved daughter, plus so very many of her friends. But this precious take her to work for a second afternoon lady keeps going strong and is turning 90 years old on May 8, 2016. We hope shift. Angelo would bring her home in that if you know Eliane, you will give her a call this month and wish her a VERY Eliane and Angelo before the wedding time to be with the children and cook HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY! May 2016

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Ernie Bulow

by Ernie Bulow photo by Erin Bulow

A BRIEF HISTORY OF

INDIAN EDUCATION

Many years ago I was attending a ceremony far out on the Navajo Reservation when the old medicine man in charge switched from speaking Navajo to English. He began talking about one of his daughters recently receiving her Master’s degree. At the time this was a triumph of intelligence, perseverance and hard work and rather uncommon. The man was understandably proud of his daughter and spoke at some length. Since I was the only Anglo there, switching to English was obviously for my benefit, and I remember his heartfelt eloquence to this day.

The Government of the United States, or those people who control such things, has long believed that the greatest single weapon against Tribalism is the institution of education.

I don’t really like the word institution because it is defined as being “devoted to the the promotion of a particular cause or program” and education is listed as a prime example.

There is another face to that coin—education was the only defense an Indian had against the dominant culture in the Twentieth Century. Navajo Boy Tom Torino Those who learned the ways of the White man early on were in the best position to prosper.

Today we—many of us—think of the Department of the Interior as the home of the Bureau of Land Management, Forestry, Fish and Wildlife and National Parks. When it was created in 1849 it was spoken of as The Department of Everything Else. There was a hodge-podge of Bureaus including the patent office, census, Federal prisons, the mint, exploration of the West, geological surveys, and education.

The first Bureau created in Interior was the Office of Indian Affairs, which had previously

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been under the Department of War. Among the first items of business was Indian education, which was a tough call because a great many tribes in the West were still at war with this United States bunch, and they were fighting for their very existence.

Education soon became one of the articles included in peace treaties. The Navajo Treaty of 1868 promised that there would be a teacher for every thirty children. Most viewed this as punishment, rather than gift. The U. S. Government couldn’t afford to provide for this particular article and the Indians didn’t much care,

Citizens out of these kids. The first Indian school was a day school in Washington state in 1860. Similar schools were established all over the country. Then the educators realized they had made a huge mistake. Schools on Tribal lands (alien Reservations in most cases) were not working as planned. The children attended school when they liked, watched and took part in ceremonial activities and went on speaking their own languages.

Wise heads got together and puzzled over the problem. The answer was rather simple—get the young folks as far away from their parents and their cultures as possible.

Build boarding schools at remote locations, put the children in them, and do not let them go home until their sentence, schooling that is, was up.

In 1879 Colonel Richard Henry Pratt started one of the most famous Indian schools in the country, Carlisle in Pennsylvania. Frank Cushing, just a year later, when he was doing the first U. S. Census, put that note on two Zuni boys—Carlisle.

Fast work.

Like most of the schools of this period, its in 1882 Same Tom Torino "Civilized" in 1885 official name was United States Indian Industrial as long as they got the promised seeds, tools and School. The answer to the problem was to make sheep to resume traditional life.

Tribal members into useful citizens. But how many Back East it was a different story. Schools were blacksmiths did the world need? Or harness makers? established and they were strict and autocratic.

That was the “trade” of Frank Vacit.

Indian children would become educated if the Pratt was the man who famously said, “Kill the staff had to beat it into them. The common Indian, save the man.” That slogan seems to be practice was to haul the children to school, strip forgotten these days. Haskell in Oklahoma was them of any trappings of home, shave their built along the same lines. Another thing seldom heads and delouse them, and then dress them in mentioned was the unusually high death rate uniforms. Military rules and practice were the among these kids. Coming from Reservations, models they followed. they were vulnerable. There is an impressive Truthfully, education was less the goal than graveyard at Carlisle. Haskell is haunted by the transformation was. The job was to make White unquiet spirits.

Louis Tewanima trained with Jim Thorpe at Carlisle Phoenix Indian School had a measles epidemic in 1899. There were 325 cases, 60 cases of pneumonia, and nine died in the space of ten days.

It is small wonder Indian parents didn’t want to send their kids off to school.

The marvelous Hopi author, Don Talayesva (whose name does not appear on the cover or

title page of his autobiography), was taken away from the Mesas, sent to Riverside, California, and kept there until he was into young manhood.

This caused him to miss most of his education as a traditional Hopi: His role in the Katsina Society, some of his language, marriage, and social instruction. Of course that was the idea.

The most powerful indictment of the boarding school system comes from his supposedly naïve revue of what education meant to him. I knew Don. He was a guest speaker in my Native American Literature class at the University of Utah in 1971. He was a very wise man and a keen observer and I believe many of his observations are veiled sarcasm. Who would expect it from him?

When it was time for him to leave the boarding school at Keams Canyon he made a review of his education to that point: “I had learned many English words and could recite part of the Ten Commandments, I knew how to sleep on a bed, pray to Jesus, comb my hair, eat with a knife and fork and use a toilet.” He adds: “I had learned that the world is round instead of flat and it is indecent to go naked in the presence of girls…”

The toilet part had been difficult for him because the outhouses were filthy and he had to be careful where he sat. I don’t think our greatest novelists could compose a statement any better

than that. I suppose the satire is more powerful if completely unintentional When he finished school at Riverside he mused similarly. “I could name all the states of the Union with their capitals, repeat the names of all the books of the Bible, quote a hundred verses of Scripture, sing more than two dozen Christian hymns and patriotic songs, debate, shout football yells, swing my partners in square dances, bake bread, sew well enough to make a pair of trousers, and tell “dirty” Dutchman stories by the hour.”

And we wonder what they are doing with our education dollars.

Perhaps the reason Don didn’t have much to show for his early education was the fact that he spent most of his time chopping firewood and doing chores. The exploitation of the school children is a topic that hasn’t been much explored to date. At Riverside Don worked in the stables (where he learned the dirty jokes). All the children at Phoenix Indian School were farmed out to white families in the valley. The girls became domestic labor for whole households, the boys were put to work in the fields, doing the work Mojados would later take over. They were not paid for this work.

It was understandable that the students spent their summers raising and canning food for the next school year. But it is less understandable when they were made to mop floors for White ladies.

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Probably the most valuable and enjoyable part of these boarding schools was the fact that they brought children from many tribes together in one place, sharing the same process of acculturation. Several famous Zunis brought back wives from Phoenix Indian School and elsewhere.

The only school that to my knowledge was not integrated was Intermountain, near Brigham City, Utah. Like many schools it was located in the abandoned buildings of a Federal facility, in this case Bushnell Army Hospital. The school opened in 1950, closed in 1984. For most of that time it was exclusively Navajo. A few surviving buildings have been turned into town houses and called “Eagle Village.”

A very little-known fact is that Allan Houser, the great Apache artist and sculptor, got his first job there, teaching art. An even more obscure fact is that he painted a mural in a local bank. When I went looking for the priceless piece of art it was difficult to find anyone who even remembered it. I finally found Jim Thorpe in football 1915-20 a retired banker who told me, “Oh, that was painted over years ago.” He had never heard of Allan Houser.

The only reason I knew about the mural was that my in-laws lived near Brigham City and remembered it.

As far as the curriculum was concerned the schools were outstanding in a couple of areas: football, marching bands, track and field stars like Jim Thorpe, Billy Mills, the Hopi runner Louis Tewanima and several Zunis. Before he enlisted in World War I Teddy Weahkee was a star track man at Phoenix Indian School. He posed for a publicity picture with Hopi runner Howard Talyumptewa.

Look at the Hopi’s shoes. He was much more accustomed to running barefoot.

I started teaching at Ft. Wingate in 1966, the year the school opened. I spent a lot of time with my students and heard horror stories, no exaggeration, of life in the dorms. One of my brightest boys was Curtis Wilson and he told me about being forced to scrub toilets with his own toothbrush because he was caught speaking Navajo.

Neither of Curtis’s parents spoke English and he started school with almost no knowledge of the language. The official policy of the Bureau of Indian affairs was just what it had been one hundred years earlier. Their motto was still “Tradition is the Enemy of Progress.” Imagine how I reacted when I found out from another boy that the dorm aide who ordered that punishment was a Navajo.

I went to one of the older, more traditional Navajo aides and asked him why the Navajos were often the most rule-bound and merciless. He pursed his lips and uniform, studied me for just a moment. “I went through this education. Only worse. Most of the others went to boarding schools too. I got an education and I made something of myself. In the end it was good for me.” He smiled. “It will be good for them too.”` The old man in that hogan, only lit by a small fire, paused for a bit. He grabbed the corner of the hide he was sitting on and jerked it up. “I earned my sheep-skin too. I worked hard for it. I didn’t get to go to any school. I didn’t have that. But I got an education, all the same. I worked hard and learned many things, like this ceremony we just had. How to cure people, how to speak well, many things.

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etoadlena@gallupnm.gov LATERAL POLICE OFFICER Minimum Starting $18.07 - $19.75 CERTIFIED POLICE OFFICER Pre-Academy Non Certified $15.25 After Academy Minimum $18.07 Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 25 year retirement, Deferred Compensation Plan, PERA Employee contribution: 4.36%, Sick leave sell back, Paid Vacation: 84 hrs/yr, Paid Sick leave: 100 hrs/yr 11 paid holidays (double time pay), Alternative paid day off, $800 clothing allowance/yr, Take home unit, On-call pay, Specialty Pay: Degree, SWAT, K-9, FTO, Detective, Narcotics COMMUNITY SERVICE AIDES Minimum $13.47 Meet physical requirements, ask for more details.

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Last day of school for Seniors Gallup High School Crownpoint High School Thoreau High School Navajo Pine High School Ramah High School Tohatchi High School Miyamura High School Tse Yi Gai High School Gallup Central High School

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The Faculty and staff of GMCS congratulate the 2016 Graduating Seniors for a job well done and wish the graduates the very best for their future plans.

For more information, please contact individual school sites or visit our homepage at gmcs.k12.nm.us.

GMCS TEACHER RECRUITMENT:

For the last month, GMCS directors, principals and other SSC staff members have been eagerly attending teacher recruitment fairs around the country. The focus of attending recruitment fairs is to attract qualified teachers and counselors to Gallup. The goal is to be as close as possible to being fully staffed at the beginning of the school year 2016-2017.

Fairs visited have been located in New Mexico, Washington, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, New York, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Good luck to all the recruiters as they finish up the very important job of filling positions, in order for our students to begin the school year with highly qualified staff.

2016-2017 SCHOOL CALENDAR

The calendar for the upcoming school year is now available on the GMCS website at gmcs.k12.nm.us. Please visit our homepage for this, and many other exciting events around the GMCS district.

LOOK for GMCS news monthly in the Gallup Journey, LISTEN for news on Millennium Media, and WATCH for GMCS district happenings on the Barbara Stanley show (Comcast Ch.21) at 6pm live on April 13, 2016!

GMCS Public Relations Team:

Teri Fraizer • Coreen Smith • Vanessa Duckett tfraizer@gmcs.k12.nm.us • csmith@gmcs.k12.nm.us • vduckett@gmcs.k12.nm.us

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8 Questions

8 Questions for Heidi Overton 2007 GHS Graduate and General Surgery Resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital

1. (by phone) Heidi, where are you and what 5. While you are away what do are you doing?

I am in Baltimore, Maryland and I am a general surgery resident at John Hopkins. It’s a five year program, but most of us take time in between and do research. I’m planning on taking three years in between to do a PHD program in clinical investigation, so I’ll be here in Baltimore for a total of eight years.

2. What was the pre-med program that you and so many Gallup graduates have gone into?

At UNM it was the combined BA-MD program.

The program is designed to provide physicians for rural and underserved New Mexico. Two thirds of the class each year comes from rural New Mexico and one third comes from Albuquerque.

3. While at UNM you were appointed as the student representative to the Board of Regents. Tell me about that?

That was my third and fourth year of medical school from 2013 to 2015. I was appointed by Governor Martinez. It was during medical school so I was very busy, but it gave me a hands on learning opportunity to see how business, education and politics operate at a young age.

4. How did you approach your duties as a Regent?

A: I have received a lot in education and scholarships from New Mexico so I approached it as a service position. I found that approaching it as a service position helped me to be a little idealistic about the possibilities of education and health care and I saw it as my job to ask questions to see what the possibilities were.

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6. What do you miss about Gallup?

I really miss the people. Gallup has people that I love and have invested in me a lot. I think growing up in Gallup you recognize that you have grown up in a city of diversity. The diversity is part of everyday life and you are able to appreciate the people around you. In a lot of ways I think the diversity in Gallup is seamless. That’s just who we are. That’s not to say that Gallup is perfect but it’s given me a great appreciation for other people and cultures that I’ve had a chance to learn from. I think growing up in Gallup helps you be more aware of that early on.

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long the hours are for medical residents.

What kind of hours are you working and what do you do for fun on your rare time off?

We are bound by national standards to an 80 hour work week limit. I go into the hospital about 4.30 in the morning and work until 6 pm or 7 pm.

That’s pretty normal. Of course there are days I have to work longer and the goal then is to balance it out later in the week. I work six days a week and get one day off, so you learn to be appreciative of that one day off. On my one day off, I try to catch up on everyday life activities like paying bills and just try to have fun. I enjoy being outside and I’m

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looking for a soccer team to join. I live right by the water so I’m able to go running by the water and see the boats. Baltimore is a food city, so my friends and I are able to try a lot of great restaurants. I’m still really active in church and I go to church and community group whenever I have time.

8. What advice would you give this year’s class of Gallup seniors as they graduate and go off to work or further education?

A: You can do anything. Coming from Gallup does not place any limitations on you. It opens a lot of doors and you have the opportunity to do 606 E. Hwy 66 • (505) 722-3845 anything you want to do. Be proud that you are Like us on Facebook! from Gallup. The longer I am away from Gallup, the more thankful I am of the lessons I learned and the people I met in Gallup. I would also say that success is not a destination; it’s not somewhere you arrive. It really is a process and there are things to be learned in each step and each step is necessary for you to be prepared for the next step.

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you miss about New Mexico?

I miss so much. I miss the blue sky and I miss having chile at every meal.

My parents have to bring me chile every time they come out. I am getting better at cooking it myself.

Interview by Fowler Roberts

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“I CAN’T HELP EVERYONE BUT I MUST TRY TO HELP SOMEONE.” Someone asked me, "Do you really think you can stop alcoholism?"

"Not in a thousand years," I replied. "But in one person, maybe tomorrow. And if I help, maybe now!" I can't help everyone but I must try to help someone.

I do not judge an alcoholic because I am full of my own faults. But if I open my heart to the alcoholic, perhaps God will open his door to me when I need help.

The person who helps others walks lighter on the earth.

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