>Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 06:22:58 -0700
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>MEXICO
>
>http://www.yumasun.com/columns/whenarizonawasyoung.html There were some in
>the United States who considered the fate of the Crabb expedition to be
>justification for invading Mexico and adding Sonora as American territory.
>One who felt that way was the editor of a San Diego newspaper who believed
>that an army expedition to pacify the Mohave Indians was actually the cover
>for an invasion of Sonora.
>
>
>CALIFORNIA
>
>http://www.thedepot.com/news/local/badin31.htm Several California
>entrepreneurs say they want to search for the World War II bomber that
>archaeologists have long thought hidden at the bottom of Badin Lake. The
>entrepreneurs say they represent a Los Angeles-based salvage company called
>Vintage Military Aircraft Recovery. Earlier this week they contacted the
>town of Badin and said they will decide soon whether and when to begin a
>search. The group's interest in the plane could severely complicate matters
>for a team of archaeologists led by Wendy Coble of Pleasant Garden. Coble
>searched unsuccessfully in February for the bomber, a part of the local
>folklore in Badin, 50 miles northeast of Charlotte.
>
>
>ARIZONA
>
>http://www.azcentral.com/news/0730heard.shtml Frank H. Goodyear Jr. has
>been named director of the museum of Native American arts and culture. He
>replaces Martin Sullivan, who left the museum earlier this year. One of the
>goals Goodyear has set is increasing the operating endowment for the museum.
>
>http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/STATE/Hopis.html The Hopi tribe in good faith
>has complied with the process available to gather and use eagle feathers ,
>said Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma, director of the Hopi Cultural Preservation
>Office. "The Park Service is exercising what they feel is their authority
>to deny that right."
>
>http://www.azcentral.com/news/0731b3ho.shtml The Westward Ho has historical
>significance as part of the first big push to increase tourism. Its
>California-influenced design is Spanish Colonial Revival with
>Churrigueresque detailing. The hotel and its tower made the big screen in
>the panoramic opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
>
>http://www.boston.com/dailynews/212/nation/Air_conditioning_In_Valley_of_:.s
>html The historical society's exhibits show how heat, and fighting it, has
>defined the region. The ice-lined coffins that 19th-century Phoenix
>morticians employed to keep bodies cool. The adobe huts that insulated
>Indians. The people who'd pick spots on the buttes and mesas outside Tempe,
>carry up sheets (or even entire beds), wet them down, wrap themselves up
>and go to sleep. The state hospital that hung soaked cloth in the windows
>and hoped for wind.
>
>Snail M photocopy from Chris Hardaker: American Indian Report (May
>1999)--Musing on kiva construction, Hardaker noticed basic shapes appeared
>everywhere. He saw kivas with six and eight pilaster arrangements. His web
>site for 4th-9th graders illustrates geometry and illuminates an underlying
>order to the universe. http://earthmeasure.com
>
>http://www.azcentral.com/news/0801aspenside.shtml For lack of a better
>term, U.S. Forest Service workers call the large stand of aspens on the
>western base of the San Francisco Peaks the "porno grove."  There are
>life-size carvings of nude women. Animals, too. It's the work of bored
>Basque sheepherders who started bringing their flocks to the state's
>mountains in the 1880s. But Linda Farnsworth, an archaeologist for Coconino
>National Forest, sees much more than smut on the sides of thousands of
>aspen trees in the Flagstaff area. Farnsworth launched an ambitious project
>four years ago, aided by senior citizen volunteers through Northern Arizona
>University's elder hostel program, to chronicle the Arizona history of the
>Basques through their dendroglyphs, or tree carvings. Thus far, she has
>more than 2,000 pictures and photo negatives in her files of scribblings
>and artwork of the Basques.
>
>[ Why attribute it to boredom ?? Those tree never stood so tall and
straight. ]
>
>
>NEW MEXICO
>
>BILL WOULD PROTECT 26 N.M. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES 07/31/99 ALBUQUERQUE (AP) _
>More than two dozen archaeological sites on public and private lands
>between here and Santa Fe would be protected under a measure being
>considered by Congress. The measure, introduced by Sen. Jeff Bingaman,
>D-N.M., is designed to protect 26 artifact-rich sites that include pueblo
>ruins, petroglyphs, Spanish colonial sites and others dating as far back as
>the late 1500s. Both the Bureau of Land Management and an archaeological
>group offered support for the bill during a hearing Thursday before the
>subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. "The
>Department of Interior supports this bill, which would preserve, protect
>and interpret the nationally significant archaeological resources of the
>Galisteo Basin," said Nina Rose Hatfield, deputy director of the Bureau of
>Land Management. The bill would let the BLM acquire lands from willing
>property owners by donation, purchase or exchange as a means to protect
>sites on private land. But the measure doesn't require private landowners
>to meet any added federal requirements for preservation, Hatfield said. The
>bill also calls for developing a general management plan for
>identification, research, protection and public interpretation of  the
>archaeological sites. The BLM would be the lead federal agency working to
>develop plans to protect and preserve the sites. Mark Michel, president of
>The Archaeological Conservancy, said the sites are in good shape but
>increasingly threatened. "There's several things that are targeting these
>sites that weren't present 20 years ago," he said. "One is this
>unbelievable sprawl that's going on out there. The ranches these thing used
>to be on, these things are being broken up and sold as subdivisions."
>Erosion and the purchase of archaeologically rich land by amateur hobbyists
>who conduct their own digs also are threatening the sites, Michel said. La
>Cieneguilla and San Marcos are two of the 26 sites addressed in Bingaman's
>bill. At San Marcos, remnants of the grand 2,000-room pueblo still remain.
>San Marcos was active during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, with many of the
>Indians living there playing leading roles in the uprising against the
>Spaniards. The 26 sites cover more than 4,000 acres in central New Mexico.
>
>
>KANSAS
>
>http://cjonline.com/stories/080199/kan_arrowheadfolo.shtml From across the
>country and across the world, archaeologists and anthropologists have been
>taking digs at a Kansas State University undergraduate who buys Indian
>artifacts and then sells them for a profit. Ever since an article on
>anthropology major Daniel Fox appeared last month in The Topeka
>Capital-Journal, angry e-mails, faxes and telephone called have poured in
>to Kansas State and to the acting state archaeologist. "I have received
>outraged messages from archaeologists in Alabama, Arizona, New York, Ohio,
>Texas, Washington, D.C., and the United Kingdom," said Virginia Wulfkuhle,
>acting state archaeologist who was quoted in the article. "Every one of
>those messages condemned Mr. Fox's activities." Weeks before the article
>appeared, Fox had placed an advertisement in the classified section of the
>newspaper under the heading, "Big Money for Arrowheads!" He said educating
>the public about the value of their artifacts was among his goals.
>Wulfkuhle cited the efforts of the Kansas State Historical Society to
>educate people, especially the young, about the intrinsic, rather than the
>monetary, value of artifacts. "We realize our impact is limited. We want to
>build an ethical structure from the ground up." Fox said he hasn't received
>any negative mail or phones calls. "All I got was about a hundred calls
>asking me if I would appraise their collections," he said. "I just want
>people to know that I have recorded and cataloged many collections over the
>last several years. "I understand the point of view of the professionals in
>the field. But I think 90 percent of the public does not subscribe to their
>views. I also think it's important to let people who have collections know
>what they have and what it's worth." To that latter endeavor, Fox is
>holding a free seminar Aug. 21 from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. in the
>Gold Room at Ramada Inn Downtown at S.E. 6th and Jefferson in Topeka. He
>said he would try to identify pieces and approximate their worth but won't
>offer any money for pieces or collections. "It's still marketing," Logan
>said. "It doesn't come under the realm of collecting."
>
>
>CYBERIA
>
>http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/99/07/st072713.html The Chinook Indian
>Tribe is objecting to an article commemorating the Lewis and Clark
>expedition, saying the author's description of the native tribe is "racist."
>
>http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/brief2.html?ct=37a3bf1b A
>2,300-year-old mummy of an Egyptian woman has just entered the cyber age
>with a Web site that allows visitors to unwrap her, German scientists
>report in the current journal of Science.
>http://www.uke.uni-hamburg.de/institute/imdm/idv/forschung/mumie/index.en.h
tml
>
>
Anita Cohen-Williams
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