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>" Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter
>Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!
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>Tuesday February 26, 2002
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>CALIFORNIA
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>http://www.businesswire.com
>The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will debut "Water and Power
>in the History of Los Angeles" - a historical exhibit at the Autry Museum
>of Western Heritage.
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>NEVADA
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>http://www.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=NA&Date=20020225&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=202250102&Ref=AR
>Sarah Winnemucca lived between 1844 and 1891 and was one of only a few
>Paiutes in Nevada in the 1800s who learned to read and write. She spoke
>five languages and toured much of the U.S., giving more than 300 speeches
>about the plight of Native Americans. She was an outspoken critic of the
>reservation system and dogged government officials in Washington for the
>release of Paiutes sent to live in the Yakima Reservation in the northwest.
>Winnemucca also worked as an interpreter and messenger for the U.S. Army
>during the Bannock Indian War of 1878, and historians give her credit for
>mediating between white settlers and the Paiute Tribe. She started an Indian
>school near Lovelock, which later served as a model of Native American
>education. Her book, "Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims,"
>was the first book written by a Native American woman and the first written
>documentation of customs of the Paiutes.
>
>http://nandotimes.com/healthscience/v-text/story/268956p-2474353c.html
>At its peak in the 1860s, Virginia City was "one of the great mining
>districts
>of the world, one of the richest places ever found in human history," said
>Ron James, Nevada's state historic preservation officer. "We have a very
>good idea from what was written at the time of what it was like to be white,
>rich and male in 19th century Virginia City. But the rest of the story
>has to be pieced together by whatever means," James said.
>
>http://www.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=NA&Date=20020225&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=202250101&Ref=AR
>Piper's Opera House in Virginia City was the big winner as the Cultural
>Affairs Commission doled out its annual $2 million in bond money for historic
>preservation projects. Piper's Executive Director Howard Bennett said the
>$200,000 from the state will help match the $400,000 in National Parks
>money awarded through the Save America's Treasures program.
>
>http://www.elynews.com/display/inn_news/news06.txt
>U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) recently introduced a bill that would
>highlight
>the rich cultural history and stunning landscapes of eastern Nevada. The
>Great Basin National Heritage Area Bill will celebrate and conserve the
>region's archaeological and historic resources as well as its wide array
>of natural resources, which include forests of thousand-year-old bristlecone
>pine.
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>UTAH
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>http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1001963,00.html
>Novak is a skeletal biologist and assistant professor at the University
>of Utah and its medical school. She had been brought in to examine the
>bones pulled out of the ground by the backhoe. It wasn't her first experience
>with a mass grave -- she'd helped document war crimes in Croatia. A Utah
>native, she'd heard little about the massacre. But she started seeking
>the answers the bones could supply. Novak and a research assistant sorted
>the fragments. By the time they finished, she concluded the bones in front
>of her represented at least 28 people who died at Mountain Meadows.
>
>http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/killingfields/
>That dedication ended with the unveiling of a new memorial. Some have given
>to calling it the "memorial to memorials." But it gives no hint of who
>committed the atrocity.
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>ARIZONA
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>http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0225mormons25.html
>A descendant of Mormon settlers believes Brigham Young intended Mesa to
>be a point of escape into Mexico for the embattled Mormon Church as it
>resisted pressure from the government to stop polygamy. Chad Willis, an
>Arizona State University alumnus, pitches the theory in his master's thesis,
>"Early Mesa: Outpost in Babylon."
>
>http://www.yumasun.com/artman/publish/story_313.shtml
>Descriptions of historical events have a way of changing with the passage
>of time. A good example is the story of how the Southern Pacific railroad
>ran their first locomotive into Yuma on Sept. 30, 1877. There are at least
>three different tales claiming to describe how that engine crossed the
>bridge in spite of orders from the government to prevent it from happening.
>
>From: Don Dove <[log in to unmask]>
>I found a web site to pull up and zoom topo maps and aerial photos
><terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/cmap.asp?ppd=1&r=4&c=3&W=0&ClickAt=?0,0>.
>Locate the nearest city and move the map or photo in the proper direction
>from there. Here is an example,
><terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=1912&Y=18675&Z=12&W=2>,
>an aerial of Calderwood Ruin along the Agua Fria north of Sun City.
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>NEW MEXICO
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>http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/business02/022502_business_long.shtml
>Businessman Jim Long has donated 8,000 square feet of space for the
>centerpiece
>of his New Mexico Multi-Cultural Foundation - a museum showcasing the state's
>history. The Legends of New Mexico Museum will open later this year at
>the retail center at Budaghers.
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>TEXAS
>
>http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlc=618131
>A study commissioned by the National Park Service concludes that
>Coahuiltecans,
>who lived and worked at Mission San Juan Capistrano during the Spanish
>Colonial period, are not extinct. But a direct lineage to descendants in
>San Antonio cannot be easily traced.
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