Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place

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To visiting geologists Black Rock, New Mexico, is a basaltic escarpment and an ideal natural laboratory. To hospital workers, Black Rock is a picturesque place to earn a living. To the Zuni, the mesas, arroyos, and the rock itself are a stage on which the passion of their elders is relived. William A. Dodge explores how a shared sense of place evolves through the years and through a couple of cultures that claim the landscape.

Through stories told over many generations, this landscape has given the Zuni an understanding of how they came to be on this world. More recently, paleogeographers have studied the rocks and landforms to better have in mind the world as it once used to be. Archaeologists have conducted research on ancestral Zuni sites in the vicinity of Black Rock to explore the cultural history of the region. As well as, the Anglo-American employees of the Bureau of Indian Affairs came to Black Rock to advance the federal Indian policy of assimilation and brought with them their own sense of place.

Black Rock has been an educational complex, an agency town, and an Anglo community. As of late this is a health care center, commercial zone, and multi-ethnic subdivision. By describing the dramatic changes that took place at Black Rock all the way through the twentieth century, Dodge deftly weaves a story of how the cultural landscape of this community reflected changes in government policy and how the Zunis themselves, through the policy of Indian self-determination, sooner or later gave new meanings to this ancient landscape.

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