Cultural Reference

Zuni is the name of both a people and a pueblo. The people's original name was A'shiwi, meaning "the flesh." The Zuni currently occupy Zuni Pueblo on the Zuni reservation in western New Mexico, a site that was formerly known as Halona, or "the Middle Place." Being one of the first pueblos contacted by Spanish explorers, the history between the Zuni and European colonists is long and fraught with violence, yet the Zuni have maintained many significant components of their way of life, including their language and their spiritual practices. The Zuni are known for their unique farming methods and skills, their silversmithing, and their traditional ceremonies, especially the winter solstice Shalako celebration.

The F-150 is an iconic Ford-built pickup truck that was introduced in 1948. A full-sized pickup with a carrying capacity of up to 150 tons, the F-150 became the work truck of choice, and necessity, after World War II as it was versatile and relatively affordable, and became a recognizable component of many American cultural landscapes.

The term usually refers to a car (or another vehicle) that is old, broken and damaged, sometimes to the point of being completely out of use and ready to go to the junk yard.

An American car brand that is known world-wide as popular, reliable and affordable. The Ford automobile company was named after Henry Ford, who is famous for changing the world of transportation as well as of industry. In 1908, he designed the Model T car, an inexpensive automobile that made owning a vehicle a feasible thing for the common man and not just for the wealthy elite. The method and philosophy of production introduce by Ford in the manufacture the Model T was an integrated moving assembly line known as Fordism, a system of mass production for mass consumption that was adopted in a variety of industries and deeply affected American economy in the first half of the 20th century.

The Ford company grew rapidly and developed into a multinational corporation. Over the decades, its cars were, and still are, among the best-selling in America as well as in many other countries across the globe.

A popular model of the American car brand Chevrolet. The Impala was first introduced in 1958, and updated models are still in production. The Impala was marketed as a sporty, yet roomy, comfortable and affordable car, and became a best-selling car in the 1960s.

Educational curricula at the elementary and sometimes high school levels in the United States that seek to promote civic competence by integrating the social sciences with the humanities. Whereas the social sciences seek to quantify and categorize information about the human condition into data sets and tables, for example by concentrating on the intersection of politics, economics, and demographics in a specific time and place, the humanities focus on qualitative aspects of human culture, such as philosophy, history, and literature. By bringing social studies and the humanities together, it was believed that a young person would be inculcated with the knowledge and resulting aspiration to function as a positively contributing member to society. Because for many years both the social sciences and the humanities retained blind spots relative to class, racialization, gender, sexuality, and ability, social studies focused on the development and improvement of a universal type that was, by default, a white male citizen who belonged to the middle class.

An anachronistic, or old fashioned term, for "escort," a term sometimes coded to refer to someone who sells sex, and sometimes nonsexual companionship, by appointment, as opposed to someone who gets picked up on the streets to sexually service a client. Similar to the historical sex trade once found in brothels, call girls may work under the supervision of a madam, who cultivates both her service specialists as well as her clientele. Call girls are assumed to be of a "higher class" than street prostitutes, in that it is assumed that they are free from addictions and that they specialize in various services, including elite cultural training in addition to sexual practices. Regardless of cultural milieu or class standing, any sexworker runs the risk of personal endangerment in the course of providing the intimate services expected of her or him, even if she or he has freely chosen to work in the sex trade.

One of the four mountains sacred to the Navajo Nation, known in modern times as Mount Taylor, located just northeast of present day Grants, New Mexico. In the Navajo creation myth, First Man buried turquoise in this mountain range, hence its symbolic color is blue. It features as a significant location for Blessingway and Enemyway ceremonies. According to Navajo legend, the chief of the Enemy Gods, Yé'iitsoh, once resided in the mountain. When the Twin War Gods (Born for Water and Monster Slayer, sons of Changing Woman) killed Yé'iitsoh, his blood spilled down the slopes and hardened into the lava flows of El Malpais, in the area surrounding Grants. The mountain is part of a cultural landscape of great significance to all indigenous groups in the region, including the Navajo Nation and the Pueblos of Acoma, Hopi, Laguna, and Zuni. In 2008, these five groups entered a petition to have Mount Taylor be designated a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP). In February 2014, 400,000 acres including and surrounding Mount Taylor were successfully designated a Traditional Cultural Property in a landmark case with national and international significance regarding the identification and (limited) protection of culturally significant landscapes.

A police force maintained by a U.S. state and responsible for the territoriality of that particular state. The state police force has a higher jurisdiction than the subsidiary forces such as the county, city, or tribal nation police. State police jurisdiction includes highway safety, the safety and security of the state capitol and associated personal, and assistance during multijurisdictional investigations concerning regional crimes or emergencies. However, state police may at times be answerable to a sheriff or chief of police from a county, city, or tribal force, especially in terms of public safety, statewide transportation issues, and protection of natural resources.

An idiomatic phrase, equivalent to the phrase "as the crow flies," which refers to the shortest distance between two places, a linear transect that avoids meandering turns and inconvenient detours often associated with following roads.