Pupils overcome fear: ABOVE: Jessica Peterson, 15, rappels to the ground at the Gallup Fire Departments repelling building June 12. The Ft. Wingate eighth-grade Enrichment Program likes to challenge the pupils by having them do an activity the students have never done before. LEFT: Mr. Holyan, a Fort Wingate teacher, holds onto the belay waiting for Chanae John, 14, to rappel down the building at the Gallup Fire Department's training facility. [Photos by Matt Hinshaw/Independent]

The Original Sweetmeat in Waterflow was banned from selling A'chíí for almost a month this winter because it's way of handeling was undeclared and in question. The store is critical to the local population for daily meat supply and also for more traditional means of meat supply for area Native Americans. [Photo by Daniel Zollinger/Independent]