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Amy Kaplan's avatar

Hello, Alisa! I love this piece. The arc quote is a feel good meaning a lie. I worked at Bandelier in 2010 and I gave a program there about the people who lived on the plateau and how they lived much as you describe in your piece. Visitors were confused and confusion is good, it opens the heart. I live now in the Rociada Valley in the Sangre de Cristos. Rociada is likely an Apache or Ute word meaning "morning dew on the grass." I am going to recommend your book to our book group. Thank you!

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Jack Haynes's avatar

Hi Alisa - I’ve been working on a novel centered on the dispossession of the Hispanic homesteaders on Pajarito Plateau for several years. They were forced off their land at gunpoint and without compensation to make way for the Manhattan Project. About 25 families. Were you aware of that history. I have tons of research on Pajarito, including old archeological reports. My ears (or eyes, I guess) pricked when I saw you mention the Plateau in your post today. I did not know that you were Tewa.

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