History of Arizona

I read the article Wisdom Sits in Places, about the White Mountain Apache tribe located in Eastern Arizona. The purpose of this article was describing how Anthropologist Keith Basso worked with two gentlemen from the Apache tribe in recording a topographic map of the area using Apache words. The Apache had named theses areas decades ago but the names were never recorded on a map for other tribesmen to read and learn. Mr. Basso traveled with his companions during the hot and humid…

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…

Huaorani also lived quite distinctively. They preferred nakedness to any clothing at all. The Huaorani also had a very poor survival succession. They were very close to killing off their entire group of people before the missionaries arrived. (Life Histories, blood revenge, and reproductive success among the Warrant of Ecuador)…

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…

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…

Perception of Navajo Women The Navajo reservation is where I was born and raised also my home. My grandmother had raised me; she had always stressed about how important school is. As a child, I never thought hard enough to realize what she meant until I entered my senior year of high school. After graduating high school everyone expected myself to become a nurse or teacher, not because my grandmother was a nurse the only reason is because I am a Navajo woman. The perspective of Navajo women is…