Earth Day, the annual day of environmental action and awareness, was first held on April 22, 1970. This past April 22nd, we finally ventured into the woods behind our house and pulled 4 putrid truck tires/mosquito farms out of the mud, along with about 200 pounds of scrap metal, engine parts, and farm equipment. The place used to be a dairy farm, and I guess “out of sight” was “out of mind”. If it were still the 70’s, cleaning up the woods would have been “outta sight” in a whole different way.

Here’s a clip of The Crying Indian from the early 70’s. OK, so Chief Iron Eyes Cody wasn’t a real Native American after all. That didn’t stop the ad campaign from having a tremendous effect back then. And it’s no less relevant today.

Here are some links to check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
http://www.kab.org/

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I need to find out how many dams the yellowstone river has. I also need to find out what kind of problems the yellowstone river has and solutions to saving the river. Its for a school project help please!
Zero. “The Yellowstone River has no dams to halt its rushing water, although much blood was shed fighting against the Corps of Engineers’ Allen Spur Dam, a 660 foot high concrete arch dam 3 1/2 miles above Livingston, that would have backed water to the Yellowstone Park Boundary above Gardiner. We can thank Jim Posewitz et al. for defeating this illogical project and allowing the river to do what it does best: build islands for wildlife, create channels and pools for fish and deliver water to the dry prairies below. The Montana visitor would do well to follow the Yellowstone River up from its mouth at Fort Union 600 miles up to the Yellowstone Park boundary. It is one of earth’s wonders and a gift from nature. Also it is our responsibility to keep it safe for future generations.” Edit: A link is not an answer, and I Googled it myself. That’s better than someone else who used the same source I did. Of course he may have discovered that using a different source gets him erroneous information sometimes. I wonder if he plagiarized a second source as well. “He noted the Yellowstone River is the largest undammed river in the United States.” http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/06/news/state/37-schweitzer.txt

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Heartpounding Chirpaq by Reencuentros from Indian’s Vision CD and art images of Native American Indians by J.D. Challenger, Kirby Sattler, and other famous fine art works shown in galleries at firstnation.us and sattlerprint.com Images are owned by respective artists are are used for nonprofit, educational purposes. The words of this song is in Quechua which is an ancient language spoken by the Incas and Peruvians of South America. Link to Reencuentros music http://www.reencuentros.de/links.html Untranslated lyrics: Kayna punchau turonero Sapallaypi waqaskani Mana pipas q’awarillaskan Waqallarkani sapay Llakillarkani sapay Q’uyay mamayta Yuyarillaspa Maypillaraq sunquchallay Maypiñaraq ñawiruruy Maytaq cuna Waqaysiwanchu Waqaysiwanchu ñawiy Llakisiwanchu sunquy Tayta mamayta Yuyarillaqtiy Translated in English as best as possible. Yesterday I was crying as nobody saw me I cried lonely and I felt pain when I was remembering my poor mother Where is my heart? where are my eyes? They are already sad with me Don’t cry with me my eyes cry my heart suffers when I’m remembering my parents

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