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“The past,” it's famously been said, “is a foreign country.” But the deep human past is better described as another continent. We humans have had the same…

Órale, the Caló word for today is chonteado. It’s a very colorful word made up of two otherwise unrelated words: choteado, which means disqualified or…

Today we continue with an important root word in Caló that’s come in up previous episodes: madre. We’ve already used madre for two other expressions:…

The Borderlands Research Institute – at Alpine's Sul Ross State University – was founded in 2007, with a mission to empower land managers to conserve the…

The Caló word for this episode is muleta. In modern Spanish, it means crutch or wooden peg leg. But it's the Spanish word maleta — which means suitcase —…

“These are the days of miracle and wonder, and don't cry, baby, don't cry.”Those lines from a Paul Simon song resonate in a time of unprecedented and…

Órale, chiva is the word for this episode of Caló. In Spanish, it means "goat." In Caló, it means "stuff," as in "my stuff" or "their stuff." It invokes a…

Órale, the Caló word of today is sonsear. It’s a verb meaning to act dumb or wonder about aimlessly. It comes from the Iberian adjective zonzo, or sonso.…

“There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material…

In 1894, a 22-year-old Texas Ranger named Everett Townsend was tracking stolen mules when he arrived at the South Rim of the Chisos Mountains. He looked…