"Ethnic identity is accompanied by ethnic stigmatization, and
the [ruins of the] Basque hotels, set within the larger building
community that is the West, are reminders of the both the
region's cultural diversity and cultural divisions. " For Indian
men and women, the past lies embedded in features of the
earth—in canyons and lakes, mountains and arroyos, rocks and
vacant fields—which together endow their lands with multiple
forms of significance that reach into their lives and shape the
ways they think. Knowledge of places is therefore closely linked
to knowledge of the self, to grasping one's position in the
larger scheme of things, including one's own community, and to
securing a confident sense of who one is as a person. As
conceived by Apaches from Cibecue, the past is a well-worn
"path" or "trail" which was traveled first by the people's
founding ancestors and which subsequent generations of Apaches
have traveled ever since. Beyond the memories of living persons,
this path is no longer visible—the past