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To the teacher.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Geography Connections: People of the United States uses the five themes of geography as a springboard for exploring relationships between people and their environment. The cross-curricular, interactive program for students in grade five...

The navajo nation.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Most people in the United States have ancestors who came here from other countries. But a small group of people have ancestors who lived here thousands of years before the Untied States even became a nation. These people are called Native...

Battling for the land.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... When early settlers first came to Colonial America from Europe in the 1600s, they settled along the East Coast. As the coast became crowded, settlers began to move west, often into territory where Native Americans lived. As a result, settlers...

Adapting to the environment.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Before the U.S. government forced Native Americans off tribal land, each tribe had established its own territory and its own way of life. For instance, tribes had different games, religions, languages, and ways of gathering food. Each...

Native americans today.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... The way of life on many Native American reservations today still depends on the environment in which each reservation is located. One very important part of that environment is the natural resources located on the reservation. Natural resources...

Transportation moves forward.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... CITIES ON THE MOVE Amtrak is testing a new train that can hit curves at speeds up to 155 miles per hour. The new train, called the X2000, has been nicknamed the "till train" because it tilts when it goes around curves. The ability to tilt...

Transportation shapes Chicago.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Chicago, Illinois, is the largest transportation center in the United States. The city is located along major land and water trade routes. This prime location helped Chicago grow from a small village of 12 houses in the late 1700s into the...

Atlanta to host 1996 olympics.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... People in Atlanta, Georgia, have good reason to be proud of their city. Atlanta was chosen over several other cities in the world to host the 1996 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) carefully studied each city that...

Los Angeles and Atlanta: Two olympic cities.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Although the IOC thought Atlanta would be a good place to hold the Olympics, the committee almost voted against Atlanta. Why? Because another U.S. city, Los Angeles, had hosted the Summer Olympics as recently as 1984. The IOG didn't think two...

California survives a drought. (How water shapes our lives).(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Water is one of our most important natural resources. How important is it just ask the people of California. Between 1987 and 1991. California suffered a severe dry spell or drought. Five years of below-average rainfall and snowfall led to a...

Phoenix: A city in the desert.(Arizona)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Throughout U.S. history, water has helped to determine where and how people live. Early U.S. settlers often set up communities near rivers, lakes, or oceans because the settlers depended on water for survival. Not only did early settlers need...

The mighty Colorado River.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Phoenix is just one of many cities that depend on the Colorado River for water. More than 20 million people in seven states get their water from this long and might river. The Colorado River begins 14,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains and...

A nation of immigrants. (Mary cultures).(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... The United States is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants are people who come from one country to live in another. Almost everyone in the United States today has ancestors who were immigrants. Between 1980 and 1990, 8.7 million newcomers...

Miami welcomes cuban immigrants.(Florida)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... The city of Miami, located near the southern tip of Florida, is only 200 miles north of the country of Cuba. When Fidel Castro took over as leader of Cuba in 1959 and formed a Communist government, many Cubans opposed him. Some of these people...

The Gullahs an isolated people.(slave descendents)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Like the Cubans in Miami, most immigrants try to preserve their own culture while adapting to American ways of life. Eventually, they learn to blend the two cultures. But when a group of immigrants settles in an isolated location, the group's...

Our american culture.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Americans may have many differences, but we also share something that unites us all: our unique American culture. Just as people from other countries share language, religious beliefs, holidays, foods, and customs, so too do Americans. For...

Geography connections.
January 1, 1993... Series Overview If today's students are to become fully responsible and productive citizens of the 21st century, they will need to know more than name-place geography. Schoolchildren are citizens of a global society, and their daily lives...