Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Wednesday October 2, 2002 Reply to Reply to ***************************************** TEXAS http://web.baytownsun.com/archive.lasso?WCD=9151 A Baytown woman and several Texas heritage organizations have circulated petitions to have the Texas Legislature name March Texas History Month. Petitions must be submitted by Oct. 15 if a bill is to be introduced in the 2003 session. Petitions are available from www.srttexas.org. http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/093002/new_coffeeshop.shtml The Cimarron County Santa Fe Trail Tour will return this year on Oct. 12, with speakers at historical locations along the route. NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY (NM) http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2002/lmas100102.pdf http://www.swanet.org/jobs.html Current Opportunities COLORADO http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1450829,00.html Frank Baumgartner won't tear down the photogenic Yankee Girl shaft house in the Red Mountain Historic District. Baumgartner said Monday he's selling the century-old tower to a sign painter who will take the aged wood building apart and reassemble it at a theme park in Montrose. "I hope this will make everyone happy because it won't be destroyed," Baumgartner said. Historic preservation officials in Ouray had no immediate response, but were looking into ways to stop the plan. http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=41400 Melanie Roth, head of Buena Vista Heritage, Chaffee County's historical society, worries the enterprise will bring development that has marred other Colorado towns. She has a different vision: "We'd like to preserve it as it is. The whole beauty of this town is that it's a ghost town." UTAH http://www.sltrib.com/10012002/utah/2907.htm An independent agency has found a "substantial likelihood" that federal negotiators abused their authority in negotiating a proposed $36 million land exchange for the San Rafael Swell. Critics say the proposed exchange is a too-good-to-be true deal for Utah, but a "rip-off" for the federal government. Appraisers say the trade could jeopardize endangered species, big-game habitat, historical and archaeological sites and paleontological resources in eastern Utah. ARIZONA http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/aahs/aahs2002/glfoct02.pdf October 2002 AAHS Glyphs (Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society). http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/10_1_02mission_tours.html Guevavi was designated as a mission site by Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1691, though its first priest did not take up residence until 1701, when a small church and residence were built. Never a large community, it had only nine families living there by the time the Jesuits were replaced by Franciscans in 1767. Tours are scheduled Oct. 16, Nov. 20, Dec. 18, Jan. 15, Feb. 19, March 19, and April 16. Reservations may be made by calling 520.398.2341 http://www.bisbeestairclimb.org/background.htm The Bisbee Stair Climb, Saturday October 19th, challenges participants to climb 1034 stairs on a 5 km course in mile high historic Old Bisbee, Arizona. It is one of the toughest races in the country and certainly the only one of its kind. According to participants, the Stair Climb is also one of the most enjoyable outdoor events they have attended. Proceeds from the race are used to repair stairs and stairways in Old Bisbee, many built around 1900. CALIFORNIA http://www.nbc4.tv/news/1695938/detail.html Construction has stopped at a gated community development in Seal Beach after officials found the remains of at least 18 American Indians. the developers will ask archaeologists to excavate more than 100 test sites to search for more remains. THE IMAGINED WEST http://news.amn.org/press.jsp?id=1046 The J. Paul Getty Museum will present powerful images by Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) and Horace Bristol (American, 1908-1997) in two exhibitions that will run concurrently from October 15, 2002 to February 9, 2003. Lange and Dixon in the Southwest opens the exhibition with a series of photographs taken between 1923 and 1931 depicting family life with her first husband, painter Maynard Dixon, as well as her interest in the Native American peoples of New Mexico and Arizona. The Getty Museum has developed an online curriculum for grades 2-12 that uses the Lange photographs as a tool for teaching and exploring aspects of the visual arts, language arts, and American history. The online curriculum will be available in late October www.getty.edu. http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/09/30/build/wyoming/vaqueros.inc The original cowboys were marginal characters and considered criminals. The cattle boom of the 1880s brought a new class of cowboy, one known for behaving well and not drinking, Taylor said. Later, Americans looked to the West and the cowboy for salvation. The trail was led by four men: artist Frederic Remington, author Owen Wister, president Theodore Roosevelt and Buffalo Bill. Although all but Cody were easterners, they "shared a sense of loss about the West." http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1450931,00.html In movies and television shows, books and sideshows, Western icons like Buffalo Bill Cody and Wyatt Earp are larger than life. Stewart Udall is aiming to cut them down to size. In his book, The Forgotten Founders, the former congressman and secretary of the interior seeks to set the record straight. Udall hopes readers see his work as "an antidote" to the warped portrayal that dominates popular perceptions of the West. KENNEWICK MAN http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=679&ncid=742&e=10&u=/usatoday/20021001/cm_usatoday/4494929 The U.S. government should not be in the business of prohibiting the search for scientific truth because facts and discoveries might make some political entities uncomfortable. Kennewick Man is a vital archeological discovery -- the best of 35 Paleo-American skeletal remains we have. TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY From: Anne_Vawser@nps.gov (via FPF) The "Native American Contracting and Federal Lands Management Demonstration Project Act" would permit Native Americans to contract with the Department of Interior to "perform functions including, but not limited to, archaeological, anthropological and cultural surveys and analyses, and activities related to the identification, maintenance, or protection of lands considered to have religious, ceremonial or cultural significance to Indian Tribes." Editor's Note: See http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:S.2921: http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=10-01-02&storyID=14927 UC Berkeley is making it possible for Internet users to explore eleven public and private museums in the state. The two-year experiment is financed with a $500,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. CYBERIA http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/international/americas/01BRAZ.html Patrick Tierney described the Yanomami as having been victims of miners, missionaries and anthropologists since sustained contact with the outside world began in the 1960's. Now tribal leaders claim that it's soldiers having their way with their women. For the Yanomami, the sudden appearance of mixed-race children in their midst has created a cultural quandary. The village here consists of only 143 people, and has until now been racially homogenous, which is one of the requirements for an Indian tribe to maintain its status under Brazilian law. If tribe members intermarry with whites and the group becomes excessively acculturated, its members run the risk of being reclassified as caboclos, as persons of mixed white and Indian blood are called in Portuguese, and losing the benefits and protections provided to indigenous peoples. For that reason, the mixed-race children here are regarded not just as a source of shame but also as a threat. ***************************************** Contact the Newsletter Editor: archaeologist@rocketmail.com dogyears@dogyears.com www.swanet.org (url) 602.882.8025 (cell phone) 603.457.7957 (digital fax) Post letter mail and other media to: Southwestern Archaeology, Inc., P.O. Box 61203 Phoenix AZ, USA 85082-1203. SWA invites you to redistribute SWA's "Got CALICHE?" Newsletter. We also request your timely news articles, organizational activities and events, technical and scientific writings, and opinion pieces, to be shared with our digital community. SWA's daily newsletter deals with quotidian issues of anthropology and archaeology -- cultural survival, time and space, material culture, social organization, and commerce, to name just a few. Our electronic potlatch and digital totemic increase rites focus and multiply historic preservation activities in the Greater Southwest. 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