Arizona v. Hicks

The Navajo (Dine) and Pueblo are very alike and very different. The Navajo home’s are called hogans which from what i have learned are dome shaped homes made of mud,branches, and leaves when the Pueblo’s homes are adobe homes called Pueblo’s. The owner’s of the home enter thru a whole that has a ladder which helps them keep out unwanted guests. Cool right? Well you will never believe how they farm. They both do it the same way… Dry farming! Dry Farming is since the southwest never got much…

Chaco Canyon was the place where the Anasazi culture thrived. The origin of the meaning Anasazi comes from an ancient Navajo phrase referring to the people who occupied the four corners region. The Anasazi are some of the ancestors of the current Native American indians of the same area. The Anasazi lived in the Chaco Canyon area in the second Pueblo Phase. This phase is separated into three phases: Early Bonito (850 to 1040 AD), Classic Bonito (1040 to 1100 AD), and Late Bonito (1100 to 1140…

the Apache Native American tribe. Originally, they lived in the Gran Apacheria, a territory that spread from western Arizona to eastern Texas and from southern Colorado to southern Mexico. The Apache tribe were one of the Native tribes in southern-western U.S. that came in contact with the first settlers. Today, over fifty thousand Apache Indians live in reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The term “apache” came from the spanish, which means “enemy”. The Apache tribe was a…

East of the Andeas between Napo and Curarary rivers deep in the rainforests there is a tribe with many different names. Some of the names consist of Huaorani, Waorani, Waodani, and the Aucas. The Huaorani are about the size of New Jersey. These warriors are known for their brutality towards outsiders and themselves, their unique lifestyle, and their survival succession. It was found that 42% of population loss as a whole were caused by Huaorani killing other Huaorani with 54% male and 39%…

The Tehama County Resource Conservation District pledged with the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and Aerial Information Systems (AIS) to create a fine scale, spatially and floristically, exact vegetation chart of the Lassen Foothills venture region. This zone includes a 108,400 section of land allotment of eastern Tehama County and spreads three substantial packages: South Denny Ranch, Tehama Wildlife Area, and Dye Creek Preserve. The undertaking zone speaks to an organically different…

Carved into the sides of cliffs in Mesa Verde National Park are what has come to be known as Cliff Dwellings. However, a more appropriate name would be cliff houses in a cliff village. The rooms range from small storage areas to entire communities of intertwined living spaces sometimes carved into the sides of cliffs. The Cliff Dwellings are believed to have been built by the Ancestral Puebloans (“Cliff Dwellings”), aka Anasazi and Pueblo Indians. This shift in the name of these people…

many subsidies of public power production to local farmers, so that farmers can grow many water-hungry crops for nearly free that some farmers in the east cannot afford to grow. In Arizona, there is a variety of attempts to transform the Grand Canyon to a battery of reservoirs. The author also criticizes the Central Arizona Projects. Because of its wrong economics and politics, when farmers believed they the Congress can always protect them from going broke. But some Indian tribes realize they…

TEXAS’S ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CPONTIRBUTION TOTHE SOUTHERN STATES Introduction The conquest of Western America shapes the present as thoroughly as it tested the ideals of the United States. The significance of Western history for the American nation cannot be understated. The American West was a meeting ground of different cultures consisting of the American Indians, Anglo Americans, African Americans and Asian Americans. All these contributed immensely to the history of the West given…

All Western historians and Women Historians should consider picking up a copy of the twenty-one essays collected and organized in the The Women’s West by Susan Armitage, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Jameson. Originally collected from the Women’s West Conference in 1983, it represents a cohesive and diverse perspective on the roles of women living in the Trans Mississippian West. In their book, Armitage and Jameson endeavor to recount the role of women through arguments attempting to rectify the…

picked up everything I owned and drove to Arizona. The state of Arizona makes law school flexible. I need a program that will allow me to continue to work, while attending school. Leaving New Mexico to follow my dream was one of the hardest things I have ever done. I left everything; my job, my friends and family. I left New Mexico feeling defeated and promised myself that I would not return until I had accomplished my goal. As I was driving to Arizona, I was nervous, scared, and uncertain of…