Posts by Bella Davis

In the opening scene of Pueblo Revolt, a play set in what’s now New Mexico in the late 1600s, Isleta Pueblo boy Feem Whim rehearses introducing himself to his crush Guillermo, depicted in a drawing he’s taped up in his home. He tests out a few greetings before landing on a casual, “Hi.”  “That was good, that…

Green fields and a basketball hoop line the road to Roddell Denetso’s sports apparel shop in Shiprock, a town on the Navajo Nation, in northwest New Mexico. Inside, racks of uniforms take up almost half the space, and the name of his business — Black Streak Apparel, in honor of his grandmother — is painted…