Borrego Pass, New Mexico

Coordinates: 35°34′23″N 108°00′18″W / 35.57306°N 108.00500°W / 35.57306; -108.00500
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Borrego Pass is an

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 Dibé Yázhí Habitiin,[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 (Dibé Yázhí Habitiin Óltaʼ) 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.).[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

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-8263-0652-7
  2. ISBN 0-8061-3576-X
  3. ISBN 0-87358-612-3
  4. ^ "Trading post listed as 'historic place'" Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine KRQE News 25 October 2010
  5. ISBN 0-89672-368-2
  6. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Borrego Pass, New Mexico
  7. ISBN 0-8263-1689-1
  8. ISBN 0-7619-9180-8
  9. ^ "Dibe Yazhi Habitiin Olta, Inc (Borrego Pass)". Bureau of Indian Education. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
  10. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved July 20, 2021.
  11. ^ "GMCS Address Lookup". Gallup-McKinley County Schools. Retrieved January 15, 2022. - KML files: High boundaries and locations.

35°34′23″N 108°00′18″W / 35.57306°N 108.00500°W / 35.57306; -108.00500

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