collapse of the "whole verge of the fall" (together with the body of the Serpent) as described in the Maid of the Mist might allude to one of the many collapses in the history of the Niagara falls and similar [...] closer look at the story reveals not only the fluid character of the geographical feature and the local human settlement but shows how the Maid of the Mist story emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth [...] made him the third assistant Thunderer. (Morgan, 151) However, the story and the danger from the serpent did not end with the child and the directions given to the Maiden: After the people had removed

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May 1992 and seized the fossil based on the Antiquities Act of 1906 . In the following years the Institute sued the government in various ways for the ownership of the fossil whereas the Cheyenne River Indian [...] claimed interest in the fossil on the basis of preserving the tribe’s cultural heritage. The District Court rejected the lawsuit of the Institute because the United States Department of the Interior had to [...] like the private Black Hills Institute, the Federal Government, and the Sioux tribe or the land owner Maurice Williams. The process was highlighted by spectacular events such as the seizing of the bones

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Mural of the ‘Bridge of the Gods’ on the pier of the man-made bridge bearing the same name. The mural was created by the late Oregonian artist Larry Kangas and combines indigenous traditions of the natural [...] that dammed up the river and allowed the people to cross – Tanmahawis/The Bridge of the Gods. Some three hundred years later, in the eighteenth century, the bridge collapsed and left behind the roaring Cascade [...] Landmark By the time of the arrival of the first white explorers and settlers, the Bridge of the Gods was no more. On the 30th and 31st October 1805, Lewis and Clark first passed the site and found tree

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for the area, tribal influence on the fate of the sacred mountain is limited. Tourists hike up the mountain, the noise of biker bars and the annual motorcycle rally disturb the tranquility of the place [...] “[f]ar back in the first sunrise of time (so say the legends), all the animals of the earth gathered here in the Black Hills for a big race” (17). He explains that the race was held to sort the animals into [...] just east of the Black Hills, has become a contested place in the post-contact period. In the struggles over land, the very sacredness of the mountain has been questioned. This text looks at the traditional

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good lands and at the junction of three creeks. “One end or side of the encampment, lay along the elevated ground bordering the low lands on the west side of the middle creek. Just above the uppermost camps [...] guide the people, similar to the one mentioned in Lincecum’s text. “After the lapse of many moons, they arrived one day at Nanih Waiya. The prophet planted his pole at the base of the mound. The next morning [...] is generally considered the mother mound by the tribe. The homepage of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians describes it as the “Heart of the Choctaw People” and highlights the earthwork in Winston County

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inhabitant of the underworld in order to receive advice from them for the future. In the Odyssey 11, Odysseus recounts his encounter with the world of the dead as part of the Apologoi . In the nekyia the epic hero [...] Proserpinae uses the well-known myth to develop his description of the underworld. The topic of the visit to the dead is related to the motif of the journey to remote destinations – e.g. the Argonauts to Colchis [...] conventions: the unreliable messenger, the equation between messenger and bard – the Greek noun for the former, κῆρυξ, is cognate with the Sanskrit term for the latter ( karu ) – and the trope of the messenger-dream

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value. The Foundation of the NPS The Antiquities Act of 1906 led to the establishment of the NPS as the leading institution for the supervision of national parks in 1916. The bigger scale of the national [...] antiquity. Figure 1: Emblems of the NPS before and after 1952. The remodeling provided the NPS with a more contemporary emblem and prepared (the image of) the service for the new era of mass tourism. Ins [...] changed over the last 100 years. The following article will outline some of the developments during this timeframe in order to create a picture of how institutions like the NPS could influence the construction

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between the expeditions and the sponsors in the east. Soldiers provided protection and sometimes accompanied the fossil hunters helping with the excavation. Military forts and the stations of the Bureau [...] of the so called “bone wars.” The (sometimes unfair) competition between two scientists over the fossils excavated in the late 19 th century in the American West became legendary and inspired the imagination [...] story of the rivals, but rather regard the “bone wars” in the context of the settlement of Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming in the late 19 th century – a conjunction already found earlier in the century when

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for the establishment of protected areas against the robbery of antique potteries on government land. In 1906, the Congress reacted by passing the Antiquities Act. The Act gave the President the power to [...] crucial point for the success of his campaign: the political dimension. The protection of the proposed areas was already possible with the laws in place before the Antiquities Act. However, the creation of national [...] of protected areas against the robbery of antique potteries on government land. In 1906, the Congress reacted by passing the Antiquities Act. The Act gave the President the power to declare “… historic

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Glyptodon is prominently featured in the article on “Paleo-Indians” as the only image illustrating the summary at the beginning of the text. The same is true for the article on the “Paleolithic” and other articles [...] obsolete in the following decades. The idea of the Native Americans as a vanishing race stood in stark contrast to the recovering of the Native American populations in the first half of the 20th century [...] important role for the emotional connection and identification of the reader with the epoch while the photographs of artifacts, on the other hand, provide the scientific evidence/groundwork for the article. F

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