, and is mainly in NE Arizona but extends into NW New Mexico and SE Utah. Many Navajo now herd sheep and earn an income from tourism, making and selling rugs, blankets, and silver and turquoise jewelry. Like the Apache, they speak a Southern Athabaskan language. Navajo speakers served the United States well during WWII. Groups of young Navajo men were enlisted under a TOP SECRET project to train them as Marine Corps radiomen. They are officially referred to as the "NAVAJO CODE TALKERS." Guadalcanal
Day 1: Conflict - A Navajo boy, from the book Code Talker was in an Indian tribe, and attending a boarding school for many years. It was very hard for him because he couldn't speak his native language, nor act the way he normally does. As the years go by he was in a school assembly, and it was about going to the marines and he seemed so into the idea he decided to join, his family and friends were really sad. That he was leaving, and he was a bit young for the military and was going to lie about
Question 1: The Jicarilla Apache tribe is located in the central northern part of New Mexico in the United States. This has been the primary region of the tribe for many centuries, but it has dwindled due to the expansion of Spanish, and then American settlements throughout northern New Mexico. In many ways, some of the ancient lands of the Jicarilla Apache are still inhabited. The tribe stills lives on these lands in the 21st century. Question 2: Yes, the Spanish forcibly removed the Jicarilla
Indians onto government reservations. The Great Basin The culture group lived near the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevadas, and te Columbia Plateau, and the Colorado Plateau. These desert land was home to those who spoke Shoshonean or Uto-Aztecan languages. This group was constantly on the move so they lived in homes built from willow poles, leaves and brush. They ate what was easily found: snakes, lizards, roots, and seeds. After white people discovered gold in the area, most of this group lost their
written by white men. But the story of the Apaches did not begin in the American Southwest but in the northwestern corner of North America, the western Subarctic region of Alaska and Canada. The Apache Indians belong to the southern branch of the Athabascan group, whose languages constitute a large family, with speakers in Alaska, western Canada, and American Southwest. The fact that the Apaches originated in the western mountainous Subarctic region makes their nomadic behavior after the arrival in
missionary effort there. After the death of Padre Kino in March, 1711, Spanish development stopped. In 1821 Mexico its declared independence from Spain went to war with the United States. The war ended 1848 with north Gila River becoming U.S. territory. Southern part of the territory was added by the Gadsden Purchase in 1853. Near after this early pioneers began moving to the west. Arizona's minerals attracted most of the early explorers, and mining continued periodically. In 1849 a small numbers of prospectors
Right now the Tlingit are scattered throughout where they originally lived; Southeastern Alaska, Northern British Columbia and Southwestern Yukon in Canada. Tlingit culture is many sided and complicated, and there is a big emphasis on family and kinship. Art and spirituality are within most areas of their culture, even with everyday objects. Even spoons and boxes are decorated and filled with spiritual power and historical associations. The Tlingit are closely tied to and respected nature and believed