Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) "Got CALICHE?" Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Sunday December 24, 2000 ***************************************** TEXAS http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/245259_dickinson_24te.html Surveys have confirmed that the 1869 limestone structure was the home of Susanna Dickinson - the Alamo survivor who carried news to Sam Houston that San Antonio had fallen. After the Texas Revolution, she was said to have lived in a Houston brothel between marriages, but in the same city she was also publicly praised for helping cholera patients. The discovery set the stage for what some preservationists see as a classic struggle between development and historical preservation. City officials see these situations in either/or terms. But cities with strict zoning have the highest property values. They are the most coveted cities. People will pay to be there. NEW MEXICO http://www.abqjournal.com:80/news/208539news12-24-00.htm In 1680, Popé united native people across northern New Mexico in defense of culture and traditional religion. When the Spaniards returned in 1692, the situation had changed in terms of coexisting. The Spanish and pueblo Indians found common enemies - raiding Navajos and Apaches. The convergence of Catholicism and traditional American Indian religion was unique in New Mexico to the northern pueblos, largely because of the Franciscan priests. The Jesuits didn't accept pueblo religions very well and had a relatively small presence in New Mexico. Under Jesuit guidance, the natives of the Socorro became Hispanics, lost their Indian religions and became pure Catholics. In the north, there is little or no distinction between Catholicism and traditional faith. COLORADO http://www.denverpost.com:80/news/news1224f.htm Dearfield is a coalescence of black history, Western history and the history of dryland farming. A preservation project is under way to turn Dearfield into a living-history museum. "If it didn't exist, no one would ever know that black Americans helped to settle the West. If the place isn't there, the story will be forgotten," said Karen Waddell, a Fort Collins historian and the leading Dearfield scholar. http://www.denverpost.com/news/jefferson.htm The Jefferson County Historical Database, the result of 12 years of research, provides the origin of names and the history of man-made and natural features in the county. Visit . UTAH http://www.sltrib.com/12242000/utah/56699.htm Russ Evans dreams of a time when the music will play again, filling the building in the heart of this Sanpete County town of 800 with glorious sound. Looking forward to the restoration of the theater and hall, people realized they first had to look back. Using a grant from the State Division of History, the Salt Lake City architecture firm Richard Chong and Associates completed an application to get the building recognized on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a long-forgotten building off Utah's beaten track. http://www.sltrib.com/12242000/utah/utah.htm Lt. Sylvester Mowry courted the wife of one of Brigham Young's sons and claimed the prophet's feisty 15-year-old daughter, Alice, told him: "Salt Lake needs only to be roofed in to be the biggest whorehouse in the world." ARIZONA http://www.sltrib.com:80/12242000/nation_w/56732.htm The nation needed copper for its new electrical wires. The decade's fastest growing state, Arizona, boasted big copper reservoirs. That meant mining boomtowns. Arizona's enormous growth from 1910 to 1920 came courtesy of federal taxpayers. When the federal government completed a dam on the Salt River in 1911, the new supply of steady water opened the valley to farming -- especially citrus and cotton. CALIFORNIA http://www.ridgecrestca.com/news/NAnolCh30358.html What must it have been like... say, in Randsburg in 1904? The Historical Society of the Upper Mojave had a chance to get a small taste in a walking tour through some of the historical spots in the ghost town. A tiny church, built there in 1904, is being lovingly restored. CALIFORNIA / MEXICO http://www.modbee.com/entertainment/story/0,1159,224434,00.html Most of the World Monument Watch list is made up of obscure cultural treasures. The Santa Prisca Parish Church in Taxco de Alarcon, Mexico, for example, is an 18th-century church in danger of falling apart. The VDL Research House in Los Angeles is the youngest site on the list and only one of five in the United States. CYBERIA http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-dyn/articles/A43541-2000Dec22.html The Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC), is working to prevent Americans from buying antiquities. It's true, of course, archaeologists are committed to preserving the artifacts that are at the heart of their studies. But like a parent who loves so much that the child is smothered, the archaeologists at CPAC are advocating policies that harm the very objects they seek to protect. Why has the committee gone so far overboard? Maria Kouroupas, is a fierce advocate of the prevailing archaeologist position that any private market for antiquities is unconscionable. CPAC has been able to veer from its mandate appears to be that cultural agreements can be used as bargaining chips by the State Department in negotiations over wholly unrelated issues. ***************************************** Newsletter Editor: Brian W. 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