The Lows is a pseudonym for a neighborhood that thrives, in its own way, in a town that is one of eight towns that make up a tribal district in the northwest quadrant of Oklahoma. It is a multiethnic, multicultural, economically challenged neighborhood. This is an aging neighborhood where the women outnumber the men, the elderly outnumber the youth, and the poor outnumber the middle class. It is a complex landscape.
The biopsychosocial, geographical, architectural, and semiotic landscapes of this neighborhood are textually and texturally diverse and complex (Basso 1996). Language, the sharing of stories, the exchange of recipes and remedies, the facilitation, creation, and distribution of meals, and the use of space all serve as markers of identity within this neighborhood.