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The fifth in a series designed to reflect, as they appear, the composition of exhibits commemorative of each of the 48 United States. The vast treasures of book and manuscript and pictorial material contained in the collections of the Library of Congress include a record of the American achievement in terms of the community, and constitute a moving and significant and tangible part of the American inheritance. Placing them on exhibition may help us come to know what is ours and what we have become. Luther H. Evans, Librarian of Congress.
"Report of the Select Committee to Study Censure Charges, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, second session, pursuant to the order on S. Res. 301 and amendments, a resolution to censure the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy": P. [215]-285.
The second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States, Glen Canyon Dam was built to control the flow of the Colorado River throughout the Western United States. Completed in 1966, the dam continues to serve as a water storage facility for residents, industries, and agricultural use across the American West. The dam also generates hydroelectric power for residents in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Nebraska. More than a massive piece of physical infrastructure and an engineering feat, the dam exposes the cultural structures and complex regional power relations that relied on Indigenous knowledge and labor while simultaneously dispossessing the Indigenous communit...
Termination's Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who made their home on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah. Following World War II many Native American communities were strongly encouraged to terminate their status as wards of the federal government and develop greater economic and political power for themselves. During this era, the rights of many Native communities came under siege, and the tribal status of some was terminated. Most of the terminated communities eventually regained tribal status and federal recognition in subsequent decades. But not all did. The mixed-blood Utes fell outside the form...