Women's Multicultural Mural

Centuries before Gallup's founding in 1881, this region was one of interweaving Native cultures, including Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni. Coal, timber, railroads, and trading attracted settlers who created a city of increasing cultural diversity. Women carried on the traditions of daily life within their own cultures by raising children and making gardens and neighborhoods. They perpetuated the arts of cooking, sewing, weaving, dancing, and the rituals of special holidays, and they played a major role in forming cultural organizations, churches, schools, and libraries. A large symbolic storyteller honors women who kept multicultural memories alive by telling stories of the past.

Gallup, New Mexico · United States