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>"Got CALICHE?" Newsletter
>Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!
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>Sunday May 27, 2001
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>THE WEST
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>http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/05/24/p12s1.htm "Whiskey's for
>drinking, and water's for fighting," Mark Twain once wrote about water out
>beyond the 100th meridian, where rainfall is scarce.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/national/27FRON.html 108 years after
>Frederick Jackson Turner suggested that the American frontier was closed,
>there are now more Indians and bison on the Plains than at any time since
>the late 1870's. Much of North Dakota has a ghostly feel: empty homesteads
>and occasional schoolhouses litter the land, with caved-in roofs and grass
>growing where there used to be front porches. Many historians have argued
>that white settlement, particularly of the northern Plains, was largely
>government-induced from the start, through subsidies to railroads and
>homesteaders. "If the government ever pulled out, the Buffalo Commons would
>come on like a storm," Mr. Popper said. The idea of Manifest Destiny in
>reverse is scoffed at by many people, especially in the dying counties.
>
>DIGGING IN
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>http://www.sltrib.com:80/05272001/nation_w/100697.htm With unprecedented
>access to battlegrounds and new technology, archaeologists and military
>personnel have undertaken recovery operations.
>
>http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/orl-asecbillie27052701may27.story?coll=sfla
>%2Dnews%2Dfront At 56, Billie is a sixth-generation medicine man on a
>crusade to protect Native American gravesites in Florida. Billie's
>uncompromising positions have frustrated state archaeologist Jim Miller so
>much that the only comment Miller is willing to make is: "Nothing good can
>come of anything I might say about that man." "There is a great irony
>here," says Patricia Wickman, historical preservation officer for the
>Seminole Tribe of Florida. "The U.S. government, which spent 200 years
>trying to destroy Indians, has now set itself up as the unilateral arbiter
>of Indian-ness. It is a cosmic joke from which most of us will never
recover."
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>TEXAS
>
>http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/today/metro_state_4.html The
>museum's collection of military vehicles, weapons and equipment takes hours
>to see and appreciate. The exhibits begin with the 1836 Texas Revolution.
>
>NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES (NM, TX, UT)
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><http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2001/miac010528.pdf>
><http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2001/moac010524.pdf>
><http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2001/fht010523b.pdf>
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>
>NEW MEXICO
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>http://www.abqjournal.com:80/news/344883news05-27-01.htm Union and
>Confederate forces traded cannon fire in April 1862 in what was the last
>skirmish of the Western campaigns during the American Civil War.
>
>NEVADA
>
>http://www.oweb.com/newslink/National/TownTussleP0210.html Nevada's
>birthplace will celebrate its 150th anniversary this spring. The
>disagreement is over where to hold the party. Genoa and Dayton both sprang
>up in 1851 as thousands of pioneers streamed through during the California
>Gold Rush. Residents acknowledge the undisputed title as Nevada's
>birthplace would be good for tourism but deny money is driving the feud.
>Some historians have embraced research showing Dayton might have preceded
>Genoa by a couple of weeks or so.
>
>CYBERIA
>
>http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com:80/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/displa
>y?slug=smithson27&date=20010527 Igor Sikorsky, a member of the
>institution's advisory Smithsonian Council, has asked for a congressional
>investigation of Small's conduct as secretary, warning that "the future and
>stature of the Smithsonian Institution is at stake."
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