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>COLORADO
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>http://www.daily-times.com/Stories/0,1413,129%257E6574%257E705970,00.html
>Conventional history records European colonists finding themselves in
>wilderness
>when they arrived in North America. Not so, say environmental historians
>and anthropologists who have studied the lifestyles of the Indian tribes
>displaced by settlers. In Colorado, settlers and miners used wildfires
>allegedly set by Ute Mountain Utes as an excuse to chase them from the
>mountains, said Colorado historian Tom Noel.
>
>NEW MEXICO
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>www.sfnewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4599961&BRD=2144&PAG=461&dept_id=412632&rfi=6
>Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was the first European to explore the upper
>Rio Grande Valley, the Pueblo homeland and the Great Plains, and was the
>first to recognize the Continental Divide. Back in Mexico, some companions
>alleged that he had mismanaged the venture and abused the Pueblo Indians.
>The high court in Mexico City conducted an investigation, but in the end
>exonerated Coronado.
>
>ARIZONA
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>http://www.yumasun.com/artman/publish/story_542.shtml
>Solomon Barth worked in a store operated by Mike Goldwater. He was soon
>operating pack trains carrying goods to Coyotero Apaches. The experience
>almost cost his life in 1868 when the Chiricahua Apaches led by Cochise
>seized his goods and animals. Along with his teamsters, he would have been
>killed had not friendly White Mountain Apaches interceded and saved him.
>The entire group then had to walk four days to Zuni, New Mexico, with nothing
>to eat but cactus fruit and the remains of an Indian dog they killed after
>it followed them from the Apache camp.
>
>http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/misc/mogollon_rim.pdf
>The tallest tale may well be that the town of Show Low was named for a
>card game. Franz Huning explored the region and discovered the local creek,
>called "Shothloo" in the Apache language, meaning, "a wet, swampy, buggy
>place." One anthropologist later noted, "By fostering the name Show Low
>for the village, Cooley cleverly propitiated the Anglo efforts to pronounce
>the original Apache designation for the creek that ran north from the Rim."
>In other words, if the English speakers couldn't pronounce the difficult
>sounds of the Apache word, they would smooth it out into "Show Low" and
>justify it with a folk etymology.
>
>http://www.azstarnet.com/star/fri/20628DTsidebar.html
>Some residents in Barrio Viejo don't want any part of the city's project.
>Longtime residents don't trust the city and already get enough dictates
>from outsiders on how to paint and embellish their homes in the historic
>district. Neighborhood residents complain that the board members include
>more archaeologists, historians, architects and new residents than long-time
>neighborhood families.
>
>UTAH
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>From: Mike Polk <[log in to unmask]> (via histarch)
>Tim Scarlett just completed his dissertation at the University of Nevada,
>Reno. It concerned, entirely, potteries which existed in 19th Century Utah.
>He sought out these potteries and, in several cases, was able to identify
>and excavate portions of them. He was also able to obtain documentary and
>oral historical information...
>
>Editor's Note:
>http://www.geocities.com/danno_ulpius/timarch/all.html
>"Using US Census and local Business Directories from the nineteenth century,
>we found out where all the purchasers of the pottery lived. Some of them
>were store owners, others purchased pottery for private residences. Aaron
>took the data and fed it into a Geographic Information System computer
>shell and generated this map of Salt Lake City, showing the "density" of
>pottery purchases (as measured in the total dollar amount spent). The yellow
>dot is the pottery shop. The red dots are consumers... The great thing
>is that this data will be directly comparable to the archaeologically
>recovered
>pottery on sites. Since I will eventually be able to match unknown sherds
>from sites all over the state, I can feed the quantity of artifacts from
>each pottery into the same software program and compare the data between
>the account book and the archaeological recovery..."
>
>CALIFORNIA
>
>http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/jun02/steinbeck.htm
>John Steinbeck's account of the "Okie Exodus" in The Grapes of Wrath became
>the principal story through which America defined the experience of the
>Great Depression: [Enticed by false advertising, impoverished farming
>families
>loaded their possessions onto ramshackle automobiles and pickup trucks
>to brave the thousand-mile journey westward to California where they hoped
>to revive their fortunes and regain their livelihood on the land. This
>American version of Exodus faced its own Sinai crossing in the Arizona
>desert, where many vehicles broke down or ran out of gas]. Almost everything
>about the elaborate picture created in the novel is either outright false
>or exaggerated beyond belief. The Okie myth owes its existence not only
>to the Old Testament but also to Das Kapital.
>
>AMERICAN INDIANS
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>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mgm1jul01.story?null
>The studio issued a warning to Wall Street, blaming the poor performance
>of "Windtalkers."
>
>www.calendarlive.com/top/1%2C1419%2CL-LATimes-Calendar-X!ArticleDetail-64488%2C00.html
>"Windtalkers" is an overblown, bloated excuse of a movie. Purportedly the
>story of the Navajo "code talkers," the real purpose of "Windtalkers" was
>clearly to create a vehicle for white male stars. The false take on Navajo
>code talkers has shown itself in the box office flop the movie has become.
>The American audience, diverse in its thinking and its taste, will no longer
>accept such Hollywood myths.
>
>http://www.gallupindependent.com/todaysnews.html
>Kenji Kawano married into the tribe, and he's known for his portraits of
>the Navajo Marines who contributed to the defeat of Japan in World War
>II. Kawano wasn't too impressed with the "Windtalkers" movie. He'd only
>give it a two and a half star rating. "Windtalkers" missed the opportunity
>to develop any real story about its Indian characters.
>
>ARTIFACTS
>
>http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/06/16/loc_freedom_center.html
>Because so few artifacts exist, the competition for treasures from the
>Underground Railroad is fierce. Established museums may need to keep the
>artifacts they already exhibit, and even loans may be hard to arrange,
>Dr. Crew says. "And with private individuals, it will be a matter of whether
>they are willing to give them up," he says.
>
>http://www.sunymaritimealumni.org/NFFS/2002/nf020503.cfm
>Special Gas Divers are plundering artifacts and disturbing the remains
>of mariners who lost their lives in the 1942 torpedoing of the CITIES SERVICE
>EMPIRE off Cape Canaveral.
>
>Editor's Note:
>A similar story about dive vandals appears on the front page of the Wall
>Street Journal, July 1, 2002
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