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that a local project of the Pueblo City-County Health Department was expecting funding from: Amendment 72, the tobacco tax. If it had passed, the tax on cigarettes would have jumped up from $0.84 to $2.59 and other tobacco products would have been taxed at 22 percent of the list price. Revenue generated from this tax would have gone to things like furthering grants to research tobacco related health issues, tobacco use education and prevention programs like Pueblo City- County Health Department’s

After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, a decade of uncertainty followed. Both the Pueblo and Spanish, were uncertain as to what the future would hold. The Pueblos, after the revolt, reoccupied their pueblos and carried on with their lives while the Spanish lived in colonies in exile farther south. However, the two groups proved to not stay apart for very long. As early as 1681, Governor Otermin attempted to reconquer the Pueblo world and marched to the Isleta Pueblo with a small army of 146 men. His group

Pueblo Indians were known for living in compact permanent settlement known as pueblos. The pueblo Indians are thought to be related to prehistoric Ancestral pueblo culture. Pueblo Indians lived in Arizona and New Mexico, most of the villages were in New Mexico along the rio grande and comprise group who speak Tanoan. Western pueblo villages include the hopi village, it can be found in northern arizona. Zuni, acoma and laguna villages are all in new mexico. In 1539 franciscan friar, marcos de niza

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 also known as the Pope’s Rebellion according to Wikipedia.org it was named for one of the Pueblo Indians “Ohkay Owingeh” which means Pope. The people wanted the Spanish colonizers to leave the Province of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico which is now known as New Mexico today. 400 Spanish where killed and the pueblo people drove the 2,000 remaining settlers out of the province. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_Revolt In league with Apaches Indians

her culture is the only culture that except her. Silko realizes she was different from others; her skin color differed from her friends and family's. Silko explains how the Laguna Pueblo people have no gender roles and how sexuality is embraced. The structure of the story helps convince the reader that the Laguna Pueblo people work together as a community to benefit everyone as a whole. The stories told also give Silko hope, about how differences can bring great benefits to her people. The stories

On the book I have read this semester was interesting. The book was titled as “Pueblo Indian Religion” by Elsie Clews Parsons. This book describes about how the Pueblo Indian tribal functions in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She tells her stories about what information she has gather from each pueblo. Parsons, describe each pueblo in their own unique way and showed of how similar pueblos had the same practices. However, her approach of this novel was from her own experiences and what has been verbal

Throughout the first few chapters of the essay, Leslie Marmon Silko structures the reading in a manner that allows the audience to stay truly engaged and curious of her conflictions. She uses personal experience, cultural behavior and rich pueblo history to contribute to the reflection of her culture's internal values and pure integrity. She emphasizes the impact her grandmother Amooh, as well as other countless relatives and friends, have had on her willingness to accept her disparate appearance;

disorder which has affected him physically as well as emotionally due to the fact that he has survived as a prisoner of war in Japan. Consequently he must deal with all of the horrific memories when he returns to live with his family on the Laguna Pueblo reservation in New Mexico. To compound his problems, Tayo is half Caucasian and half Native American, so he must also deal with the added pressures of bi-culturalism. He is torn between the Native American world and the white world, and is unable

Many revolts have occurred throughout history, and all of them with great cause. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is no exception. The one aspect about this revolt which makes it special, is the fact it happened over 80 years after the Spanish occupied their land. This fact alone raises many questions, but it is more important to know why the Pueblo revolted in the first place. As with any debate, there are a variety of different answers. Some authors argue the sole reason for revolting was religious based

When America was first starting off, there were some tensions within the colonies. Some of the tensions led to rebellions. Two rebellions that come to mind, is the Bacon rebellion and the Pueblo rebellion. They both showed how America had tensions with different groups of people. They both transpired because the lower class was being oppressed. Even though they were different they both pointed out the tensions in the colonies. Bacon rebellions occurred in 1676 and ended in 1677. It took place