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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Borrego Pass is an unincorporated community consisting of two Navajo communities[1] and a trading post in the Navajo lands of McKinley County, in northwestern New Mexico, United States. In Navajo its name is Шаблон:Spell-nv,[2] meaning "Upward Path of the Lamb."

Borrego Pass is located on Navajo Route 48, twelve air miles and fifteen miles by road southeast of Crownpoint.[3]

History

The community formed around the Borrego Pass Trading Post which was opened in 1927 and was first operated by Ben and Anna Harvey,[4] and then starting in 1935 by Bill and Jean Cousins.[5] It was sold in 1939 to Don and Fern Smouse who operated it for over forty years. The trading post was named after the nearby Borrego Pass[6] an ancient water gap, across the Continental Divide,[7] that cuts into the Dutton Plateau.[8]

Education

There is a Navajo school at Borrego Pass, the Borrego Pass School (Шаблон:Spell-nv) which was established in the early 1950s.[1] In 1972, it became one of the first contract schools of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (B.I.A.).Шаблон:Citation needed It is now affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).[9]

It is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools.[10] It is zoned to Crownpoint Elementary School, Crownpoint Middle School, and Crownpoint High School.[11]

Notes

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Iverson, Peter (1983) The Navajo Nation University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, volume 2, pages 144–145, Шаблон:ISBN
  2. Bright, William (2004) Native American placenames of the United States University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, page 71 Шаблон:ISBN
  3. Eddington, Patrick and Makov, Susan (1995) Trading post guidebook: where to find the trading posts, galleries, auctions, artists, and museums of the Four Corners region Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, Arizona, pages 133-134, Шаблон:ISBN
  4. "Trading post listed as 'historic place'" Шаблон:Webarchive KRQE News 25 October 2010
  5. Cousins, Jean; Cousins, Bill and Engels, Mary Tate (1996) Tales from Wide Ruins: Jean and Bill Cousins, traders Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas, pages 77–85, Шаблон:ISBN
  6. Шаблон:GNIS
  7. Julyan, Robert (1998) "Borrego Pass" The Place Names of New Mexico (revised edition) University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, page 46, Шаблон:ISBN
  8. Lekson, Stephen H. (1999) The Chaco meridian: centers of political power in the ancient Southwest Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California, page 119, Шаблон:ISBN
  9. Шаблон:Cite web
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  11. Шаблон:Cite web - KML files: High boundaries and locations.