Scholastic Update articles from February 1995

Scholastic Update archives from February 1995

Walking two roads. (Native Americans in the modern world) (Cover Story)
February 10, 1995... More than 350 years ago, the Pequot tribe of southern New England was nearly wiped out in one of the first Indian wars on this continent. In 1992, after centuries surviving on little or nothing, the Pequot struck it rich. Taking advantage of a...

First Americans. (statistics on Native American population)
February 10, 1995... Four centuries ago, when they first discovered Europeans navigating their shores, Native Americans began a long and painful retreat. A series of bloody wars and broken treaties pushed them slowly onto ever-dwindling pieces of land until, in 1900,...

Back to the future. (lifestyle of the Navajo)
February 10, 1995... It was hardly surprising: Most of the teenagers we met on the Navajo Indian Reservation would rather watch a rerun of Beverly Hills, 90210 than attend a traditional ceremony. Life on the TV show seems more glamorous than life on the reservation....

High stakes. (Native American gambling business) (Culture Clashes)
February 10, 1995... The last of the Indian Wars ended with a massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890. The U.S. Army won, the native tribes were confined to reservations, and that was that. Well, not quite. Today, more than a century later, many issues...

Sacred sites. (desecration of Native American sites) (Culture Clashes)
February 10, 1995... Every year some 2.6 million tourists descend on a remote corner of western South Dakota to gawk at one of the most recognizable sculptures in America. Mount Rushmore, bearing the 60-foot-high granite heads of four U.S. Presidents, has been called...

Sports mascots. (use of Native Americans as sports symbols) (Culture Clashes)
February 10, 1995... When the high school football team in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, takes to the field, students cheer "Go Indians!" One wall of the Mukwonago high gym is painted with the I words "This is Indian country." And a painting in the principal's office shows...

A world apart. (history of Native Americans)
February 10, 1995... In 1866, during a visit to Washington, D.C., a group of Native American leaders had their future laid out for them. "The Great Spirit has decreed," they were told by Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, "that nothing will stop this glorious...

Fire from the jungle. (Chiapas rebellion inspires native people in Americas)
February 10, 1995... Shortly after midnight on January 1, 1994, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, hundreds of masked Indians armed with machetes and rifles slipped out of the Lacandon jungle and seized the popular tourist town of San Cristobal de las Casas...

Return to Vietnam.(US relations with Vietnam)(Cover Story)
February 24, 1995... On April 30, 1975, in the predawn darkness, U.S. diplomat Graham Martin climbed to the roof of the American embassy building in Saigon, Vietnam. Carrying the embassy's folded American flag under his arm, Martin clambered aboard a helicopter,...

The new Vietnam.(geographic information)
February 24, 1995... In the 1970s, nearly every American knew exactly where to find cities like Hue9 Hanoi, and Haiphong. They were the land marks of a military journey from which 58,000 Americans did not return. Two decades later, the battlefields and bombing...

Watching the world rush in.(American narrative on Vietnam)
February 24, 1995... The first thing you notice in Saigon is the traffic. It comes at you in all shapes and from all directions: Single-speed bicyles copiloted by two gossiping friends. Tiny Honda scooters transporting entire families. And overloaded old Ford buses...

Growing up in war's wake.(Vietnamese teenagers)
February 24, 1995... For Vietnamese teenagers, difference between the hardships their parents endured and the peaceful lives most of them live today is vast. The war in Vietnam left emotional scars on an older generation of Vietnamese that are still slow to heal. But...

The Vietnam Wars.(chronicle of wars in Vietnam)(includes related article)
February 24, 1995... The Chinese Dragon 208 B.C.-1428 A.D. In Vietnam, a nation forged in the crucible of war, it is possible to measure time by invasions. Long before the Americans, before the Japanese, before the French even, there were the Chinese. They arrived...

Laying the past to rest.(missing in action in Vietnam)
February 24, 1995... Hanoi's Noi Bai airport was shrouded in mist on a cold day last December. But the monsoon weather didn't seem to rumple the crisp formality of the honor guards--one composed of soldiers from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the other of...

Less than paradise.(Vietnamese immigrant teenagers in Boston)
February 24, 1995... An elderly Vietnamese man trudged past the bakery where 17-year-old Nguyen Thi Cam was sitting with her friends after school. Resting across his shoulder was a traditional Vietnamese bamboo pole, strung at either end with two clear plastic bags...