Four Corners (was: Salem (was: Schools all around

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6154

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:

> Picture a school set in New Mexico or Arizona, where the Pueblo 
> people live(d), where the magical traditions of the original peoples 
> have been preserved and expanded? A lot of the students would be 
> Native Americans.

I don't know whether the Native American wizarding folk north of 
Mexico educate their young-uns in school or by some other method such 
as apprenticeship. A suggestion that once was made that there is a 
Navajo-Apache-Puebloan wizarding school in the traditionally magical 
Four Corners region would require that the wizarding folk put away a 
great deal of Muggle ethnic hostility and bring in a lot of language 
translation. 

We-uns will never know about it, as (in my universe) the Native 
American wizarding folk north of Mexico keep themselves entirely 
hidden from Euro-American wizarding folk AND Euro-American Muggles. 

I imagine that they would Very Much limit their contact with 
African-Americans and with the Central and South American wizarding 
folk who have included/adopted all wizards and witches born in their 
land regardless of race. Because if you are in contact with too many 
people who are in contact with Euro-Americans, there is more chance 
that one of the people you are in contact with will let the 
Euro-Amerians know about you.

I often wonder whether they avoid their relatives the Native American 
Muggles for the same reason -- which would cause wizarding children 
born to Native American Muggle parents to have no choice for magical 
education except the racially integrated schools.  

There's room for a couple of epics in there, but the writer would 
have to be not only a good writer, but a not-too-assimilated Native 
American himerself, and HP is sort of a very-assimilated interest, 
yes?