The Old Spanish Trail was a series of trails from Santa Fe‚ New Mexico‚ to Los Angeles‚ California. The three routes were called the Main Route‚ the Armijo route‚ and the North Branch.The trails went through New Mexico‚ Colorado‚ Utah‚ Nevada‚ and California. These trails were used for trade‚ including Native American goods of blankets and baskets for horses and mules from California. I choose this topic because it was a major trade route from 1829 to 1848. This is a huge part in our Western history
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General operating funds are an integral part for the sustainability‚ impact‚ and growth of all non-profit organizations. General operating funds would provide our organization with the flexibility to meet pressing community needs and achieve impact. Funding would also contribute to maintaining our sustainability‚ while shifting attention from limited program outcomes to broader organizational and social impact. Furthermore‚ it would help ease administrative burdens and costs associated with our
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| Dean Kuhlman | Research Paper HI-315VC | | | | | | | Kit Carson is best known for his role in the expansion of the West as a trapper‚ explorer‚ scout and American soldier. Carson not only spent time carving the path to the west‚ he defended it in battle as an officer in the U.S. Army. One of the most famous mountain men of the Westward movement‚ Carson has had several landmarks‚ cities‚ and areas named after him. Among these are Carson‚ Colorado‚ Carson City‚ Nevada
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learned to make baskets and irrigate. The Anasazi religion was very different compared to other religions of the world. Anasazi Indians chose to bury their dead either in the trash or against walls. The ghosts of the Anasazi were feared widely by most Navajos for some reason. The oddest thing about the Anasazi is that they had some kind of infatuation with a humpbacked‚ flute playing man named Kokopelli‚ or the Watersprinkler. On many walls all over the area‚ a drawing of Kokopelli can be found. These
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free to say anything about the president that was in power or if a massive pipeline is built under your town that runs the risk of poisoning the water supply‚ like in the case of the Dakota pipeline today‚ bad things like corruption and abuse of the Navajo people would go unnoticed and we would essentially be par for the course. This disturbing mental image is cured when we realize when we have the power to express ourselves which causes us to free ourselves from any slave-like society. Things like
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associated with religion; early civilization took notice of the celestial objects in the sky (such as planets‚ stars‚ constellations‚ ect.) Most early cultures had a creation story. In most cases‚ they involve the stars. Planets‚ ect. For example‚ the Navajo creation story‚ in a part of it‚ it mentions the constellation Pleiades and its meaning. When the Holy People were arriving into this world by a rainbow‚ they were walking along meanwhile some of the children wandered off and got lost. This constellation
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How Successful Was the Indoctrination of the German Youth Under the Nazi Regime? Hitler expressed the need for indoctrination in many speeches from the beginning of his leadership. This is shown in a quote from a meeting with radio officials on 25th March 1933: ’the mobilisation of the mind is as necessary as‚ perhaps even more necessary than‚ the material mobilisation of the nation.’ The Law on the Hitler Youth also emphasised the indoctrination of the youth: ’All German young people...will be
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The Quote “It’s time to end the fossil fuel infrastructure. I mean‚ these people on this reservation‚ they don’t have adequate infrastructure for their houses. They don’t have adequate energy infrastructure. They don’t have adequate highway infrastructure. And yet they’re looking at a $3.9 billion pipeline that will not help them. It will only help oil companies. And so that’s why we’re here. You know‚ we’re here to protect this land.”‚ by an Anishinaabe Activist Winnona Laduke is an important quote
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the seventeenth century‚ diseases imported by the Spaniards such as smallpox and measles‚ began to decimate the Indian population. Natural disasters such as crop failures and major droughts added to the misery of the natives. Attacks by the hostile Navajo and Apache tribes aggravated the strained relationship between the Spanish colonists and the Pueblos (Otermin‚
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English Only or Not? I Table of Content Page Content 1. Introduction 2. English only Policies 3. Lawsuits of Discriminations 4. EEOC vs. Pro English 5. Conclusion 6. Works Cited English Only or Not? Introduction In the United States we are filled with different cultures and backgrounds form other countries‚ for that reason many other languages other than English are often spoken in the workplace and
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