to the present day‚ American Indians have usually been presented as either underachieving metahippies‚ tree-hugging saints or some combination of the two. The trouble with all such stereotypes‚ as Charles C. Mann points out in his marvelous new book‚ "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus‚" is that they are essentially dehumanizing.
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When one hears the Apache‚ pronounces as “uh-Patchce”‚ people think about Chief Geronimo or of a warlike tribe. The name Apache comes from the word “apachu” which means “enemy”‚ it was given to this tribe of nomadic hunter by the Zuni who fear them. The Apache were feared because through their history‚ they would raid other tribes or villages for food. A big part of the Apache culture is based on warfare‚ but like all Indian people they had a well-defined and complex society and mythology. The Apache
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Tuesday‚ a 12 year old boy brought a shotgun to Rosewell middle school in New Mexico and fired at a classmate. The boy suspected of the shooting‚ who the police did not identify‚ carried a shotgun inside a band-instrument bag‚ pulling it out once he entered the gym. Roswell police said the suspected shooter was arrested Tuesday and the school was placed on lock-down. A classmate said the shooter was being bullied‚ but New Mexico state police said they still did not have a motive. An eleven year
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states other than Texas. Particularly‚ New Mexico and Louisiana have retained generally higher and more consistent incentive programs and offer close geographic alternative to Texas. The results of Texas falling behind in terms of competitive film industry incentives are already apparent with‚ for example‚ notable film maker Robert Rodriguez moving production of his television show From Dusk till Dawn: The Series out of his Austin based studio to New Mexico for the production of the show’s third
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explorer and conqueror of the Aztec Empire. It has been said that Hernan has been to the University of Salamanca‚ but he eventually quit before finishing or that he may have failed his courses. He first sailed out at the age of 19 out into the “New World” because of the gold he had heard of in the Caribbean‚ but was extremely pissed and disappointed when he
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The Presidio of San Elizario In 1598‚ the Spanish nobleman‚ Don Juan De Oñate from Zacatecas‚ Mexico was leading a group of Spanish colonists from Mexico to settle the newly discovered province of New Mexico. The group traveled for weeks across the desert until it reached the banks of the Rio Grande River near the San Elizario area. Soon afterward‚ Oñate proclaimed possession of this area in the name of his King‚ Phillip II. The small town of San Elizario is named after the French
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Why India? Why IANS? With India’s growing importance in international strategic and economic thinking‚ news about the country is becoming more critical to the world. India alone accounts for over a billion of South Asia’s 1.3 billion people. The sheer mass creates news. Changes in the global balance of power‚ India’s economic rise‚ and South Asia’s continuing political and social ferment‚ are attracting worldwide attention. In addition‚ Pakistan‚ Afghanistan‚ Sri Lanka‚ Bangladesh‚ Nepal‚ Bhutan
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two cultures collided. A contrasting essay is the Letter from New Mexico by Juan de Onate from 1599‚ which showed ill intention from the beginning to the end. Onate’s entire purpose was to acquire land for his king‚ and he was not to be stopped‚ not by orders and definitely not by his own morals. In the 1623 An Indentured Servant’s Letter Home by Richard Frethorne he complains of his work and living conditions as a crop servant in the new land. Frethorne’s experience in America could have been better
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discussed. The people who were going to become the Navajo tribe settled in what would be the mountains of New Mexico in or around the 1600’s. Prior to that time the area was the home of the Anasazi (The Ancient Ones.) The Anasazi had lived there for approximately 1200 years but‚ for unexplained reasons‚ they abandoned their highly developed dwellings and moved westward and southward. A new group of people‚ the Athapascans‚ migrated from what are now Canada‚ Alaska‚ and the American Northwest southward
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the other tribes to learn how to ride horses. Around 1700 the tribe went towards the Kansas plains to grow watermelon‚ beans‚ and corns. The Comanche tribe to over the territory and defeated the Apache and made them move towards the New Mexico‚ Arizona‚ Texas‚ and Mexico. During 1730s‚ the Apache and Spaniards went into battle for a long time and caused many deaths. In 1743‚ the Spanish leader finally agreed to set an area of Texas to the Apache to live so the battle was over. Then July 1869‚ a
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