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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK!

– Mesa Verde National Park at 100–and the Mysteries It Contains: On June 29, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the bill that made Mesa Verde a national park. At the end of this month the park celebrates its hundredth birthday with a weekend of special events.
http://tinyurl.com/grs28 (American Heritage)

– Photographs shine in Mesa Verde book: In the logjam of books, music and exhibits surrounding Mesa Verde’s centennial as a national park, the handsomest book so far is Mesa Verde National Park: The First 100 Years, put out by the park’s Museum Association with Fulcrum Publishing.
http://tinyurl.com/ez5jp (Durango Herald)

– Mesa Verde celebrates 100 years
http://tinyurl.com/fup38 (The Daily Sentinel – Grand Junction)

– Party’s on for Mesa Verde
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3980715

OTHER NEWS – Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Amendments Act of 2005

– Hopi Tribal Chairman Ivan Sidney on Tuesday told the U.S. House Committee on Resources that the Hopi Tribe is opposed to amending the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act and urged the committee to reconsider moving forward with a bill that would pit Hopi and Navajo against each other.
http://www.gallupindependent.com/2006/jun/062206bldvds.html

– Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr., in testimony this week before the U.S. House Resources Committee, requested an independent, “unbiased” non-federal consultant conduct a one-year study to examine the impacts of relocation on the Navajo and Hopi people.
http://www.gallupindependent.com/2006/jun/062306unbstdy.html

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