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    Currently there are many issues related to the access of indigenous food sources throughout North America. The readings dealt with both indigenous food insecurity in both the southwest U.S. and in the northern U.S. and Canada. The Senora desert is a hot and arid region in the southwest U.S. and northern Mexico and is one of the largest deserts in North America. It has an average rainfall of only 10 inches and can reach as high as 120F in the summer months (Salmon, 68). Despite being a…

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    Anasazi Culture

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    The Anasazi as they are now known were an advanced Native American culture found in the Southwestern United States. The word Anasazi Is derived from a Navajo Indian term which roughly translates into two separate terms the first of which speaks to a very likely adversarial relationship with neighboring tribes “The ancient Enemy” the second of which is a great deal less ominous and is merely “The ancient Ones”. Both are fitting names as Anasazi culture is thought to date as far back as far as…

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    20 Obvious Reasons To Love Arizona There are endless reasons to love Arizona. With nearly 300 or more days of sunshine a year, we can enjoy all that our state has to offer on any given day; unlike many other states that experience snow storms, hurricanes, or earthquakes. Interested to find out why everyone should enjoy Arizona? The Grand Canyon: We deserve bragging rights for this one. Case and point: It’s one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Not many states can say they own one of…

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    Philmont, New Mexico, one of the most beautiful and wonderful places on earth. Philmont is a two week wonderful camping trip that changes your life for the better, whether that be the good times you had on the trip, the beautiful breathtaking views, or the extremely hard backpacking you have to endure, for me it was a little bit of each. I bought some new shoes, and I wore them on the trip. So as we headed to new mexico it was a extremely long trip. It was around 8 hours, so we made many stops.…

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    The Great American Desert is the area of land west of the Mississippi River and east of Rockies. The Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, a good part of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. During this time only Indians were in this land. White people were considered unfit for habitation. This area of land got its name because it is in America and this area of land flat, treeless, and like a desert. There is no food and very hard to grow food. This area was quickly transformed into…

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    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…

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    It is the 1880s. The civil war has been over for 15 years. The economic conditions in town I live in have deteriorated, and I am struggling to make ends meet. I’m deciding to go west where there is plenty of land and plenty of opportunities, so I’m going to be a farmer. In the west I have to face opportunities and difficulties. In the west the farmers had to go through many things to get by. Depending on where they lived in the west, farmers were continually working hard every day to maintain…

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    I start my trip from the location of frenzied outfitting activity throughout the 1840s and early 1850s, Independence (Missouri) was the jumping-off point for the Santa Fe and Oregon trails. The town includes several historic buildings, monuments and Independence Spring. As the place of convergence of early routes from the Mississippi Valley, this square was the last significant point of supply until the mid-1840s, when Westport also became an outfitting town. When I visited Independence in 1846,…

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    Whistler Research Paper

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    Whistler is a deluxe city that is located in a valley between two mountains. Our city is 161.7 km2 and has over 30,000 hectares of protected forest with a lot of evergreen trees and wild flowers. We are near British Columbia’s capital Victoria and the biggest ocean in the world. This city is the home to about 10,000 permanent residents. We were the host of the 2010 winter Olympics and for our world class mountains as well as ski resorts. This city is blessed to have all these different physical…

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    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%…

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