Alcatraz Island and Prison Alcatraz Island‚ also infamously known as “The Rock”‚ is located in the San Francisco Bay 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco‚ Ca. It stands 121 feet above sea level and spans approximately 22 acres. The Spanish Lieutenant Juan Manuel de Ayala named Alcatraz Island for sea birds; he was reported to be the first known European to sail through the Golden Gate in 1775. It was named “La Isla de los Alcatraces” meaning the Island of the Pelicans. It later became home
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McIntosh Supreme Court decision - This case involved the validity of land sold by tribal chiefs to private persons in 1773 and 1775. The Court held that that Indian tribes had no power to grant lands to anyone other than the federal government. The government‚ in turn‚ held title to all Indian lands based upon the "doctrine of discovery"—the belief that initial "discovery" of lands gave title to the government responsible
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Ashley Professor Martin HIS 101 10 April 2010 Essay #1 What aspects of the non-English styles (Spanish‚ Dutch‚ French) show a different mindset from that of the English settlers? (That is‚ what values or priorities are different?) As we have read in the book‚ Agriculture has become very big in our society today. The way a house is built gives a home its beauty‚ and it’s feeling. The non-English style houses (Spanish‚ Dutch and French) show a different mindset and have different features
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World War II / Navajo Code Talkers The Navajo of the Southwestern U.S. are the largest Indian Reservation and most recognized tribe in all of the United States of America. It was based on the Navajo Language‚ one of the hardest languages to learn. Children who lived on the Reservation were not allowed to speak their own language at school but even that didn’t stop them; they always used it at home or any other place but if children were caught speaking any other language besides English‚ they
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The Zuni and Hopi peoples’ pantheon is also a perfect exhibit of what they value in their own culture. Their gods care for those they consider kin‚ even going so far as to spring them from an impressively hellish pit of pure darkness‚ and they are personable‚ making
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language we speak. It was Edward Sapir who theorized that our viewpoint on the world is affected by the language. Whorfs theory was drawn from a study of Hopi Indians‚ which stated that their language has no concept of time as an objective being. From this‚ Whorf attempted to prove the linguistic relativity theory by looking at the way the Hopi rely on preparation‚ such as planning events in advance‚ does show a concept of time. In this case it is just time continuing along instead of matching the
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The Navajo creation story involves three underworlds where important events happened to shape the Fourth World where we now live. The Navajo were given the name Ni’hookaa Diyan Diné by their creators. It means "Holy Earth People". Navajos today simply call themselves "Diné"‚ meaning "The People". The Tewa Indians were the first to call them Navahu‚ which means "the large area of cultivated land". The Mexicans knew them as "Navajos de Apaches"‚ known as a special group somewhat distinct from the
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EXT. osaka - Garden of Ether - TOP OF HILL - DAYFADE UP: The waters flowing uphill from the river of life into the Garden of Ether‚ two immortal beings‚ MARTY‚ a man‚ and VENUS‚ a women‚ holding hands running up a green hill. There eyes are emerald fire like.LENNOX (V.O.)For it was time...for a new awakening of knowledge of the righteous and unrighteous...come upon Apollo’s beloved creation‚ human beings...DISSOLVE TO: Solar eclipse‚ blinding both beings‚ and bending down to cover there eyes.CLOSE
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American History‚ preserve what’s left‚ for new times to come for new generations. While she was designing‚ The Watchover tower she had in mind Native American culture‚ which is obvious in all of her artwork. She worked closely with another artist Hopi descent‚ Fred Kabotie; he is the one that
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Bible vs. Native American Creation Stories from the Southwestern United States Human curiosity is shared between both the Biblical creation story and the Native American myths .Both the Bibles account of creation and the Native American myths tell about an intelligent creator that created complicated beings. Creators in both of the stories have a dwelling in the sky. In Genesis‚ the creator God dwells in heaven. In Native American stories‚ the creator lives in the sky and is known as the Sky
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