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 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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]