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1	Title: Teshuvah Source(s): Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico Author(s): Isabelle Medina Sandoval (Author); Joan Logghe (Editor); Miriam Sagan (Editor) A poem about Jews exiled from Spain who came to New Mexico. Glad tidings Cousin Rabbi blood of my blood of Spain. Many years more than forty years my family lived in the Sinai Desert without a temple to pray. Many years more than four hundred years my family lived in the deserts of Mexico withou... Show Keywords:
2	Title: A Voice Source(s): My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) A poem describing the narrators mothers struggle to learn English. Even the lights on the stage unrelenting as the desert sun couldn’t hide the other students, their eyes also unrelenting, students who spoke English every night as they ate their meat, potatoes, gravy. Not you. In your house that smelled lik... Show Keywords:
3	Title: The Utes Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight A brief history of the Utes. The Utes call themselves Nunt’z, “the people.” In former times, the Utes roamed in eleven bands across much of Colorado, Utah, and parts of Arizona and New Mexico. Today they live on reservations in southern Colorado and eastern Utah. As many a... Show Keywords:
4	Title: Tierra Amarilla Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight A brief history of Tierra Amarilla. The village of Tierra Amarilla lies in the Chama River Valley. Groups of hunters and gatherers lived in this valley as far back as about 5,000 years ago. Archaeologists know about at least ten significant pueblo sites along the Chama River, between p... Show Keywords:
5	Title: The Woman at Otowi Crossing Author(s): Frank Waters (Author) An excerpt from a novel about the making of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos and its detonation at White Sands. This is it, thought Gaylord working in the blinding brilliance of the July sun. Trinity, when he first had heard it, was only a Top-Secret operational code name. Then, when more and more men began to leave Los Alamos and he himself accompanied them, ... Show Keywords:
6	Title: Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Narváez Expedition Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight A description of the Narváez expedition in 1527; how Cabeza de Vaca and three other survivors struggled to cross North America. Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1490-c.1557) was born into a noble family near Seville, Spain. The name Cabeza de Vaca (Cow's Head) came from an ancestor who played a role in a victorious battle of Spain against the Moors in 1212. The ancestor was a s... Show Keywords:

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