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Unincorporated community in New Mexico, US From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borrego Pass is an unincorporated community consisting of two Navajo communities[2] 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,[3] 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.[4]
The community formed around the Borrego Pass Trading Post which was opened in 1927 and was first operated by Ben and Anna Harvey,[5] and then starting in 1935 by Bill and Jean Cousins.[6] 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[1] 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.[2] 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]
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