By El Paso Matters Staff, El Paso Matters El Paso historian and author David Dorado Romo believes geography is destiny. He was born in California but was raised in the borderland, where he attended South Central El Paso schools. The El Paso-Juárez region has played a huge role in his research and writing, he said.

“In Nahuatl, an ancestral language that has its origins on both sides of the border, the word for ‘Indigenous’ is nican tlacatl. It means ‘a person (from) here.’” Romo said. “I see my own identity and knowledge deeply rooted in the Native fronterizo landscape. It’s a source and foundation for much of my work.”

David Dorado Romo’s latest book, “Borderlands and the Mexican-American Story,” recounts U.S. history from the perspective of Mexicans who lived in the Southwest. (Corrie

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