Report to Congress on the Indian Health Service with Regard to Health Status and Health Care Needs of American Indians in California

This study documented the health status and access to health care services of American Indians in California, especially those in tribes that are not federally recognized. Through analysis of vital statistics and other databases, comparisons were made between California Indians who are members of federally recognized tribes and those who are not. On the basis of these and other comparisons, American Indians in non-federally recognized tribes in California generally were found to have poorer health status than those in federally recognized tribes. The health status of both groups is inferior to that of other populations, underscoring the importance of maintaining and expanding coverage to the entire American Indian population of California

[Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard.] No. 5 (May)

THERE WERE two major objectives in John Muir\u27s life. The first was to worship at nature\u27s shrine; the second, to influence others to do likewise. His tireless wanderings on ,,„ foot, from the Wisconsin farm to which his Scotch parents had taken him as a boy, first r^J^ into the wilds of Canada, then south to Florida, were but preparing the way for his explorations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, in the wilds of Alaska, and later of South America, Australia and other remote lands. r§^S\u3e Consequently all his writings were directed not merely toward entertaining his readers with wilderness lore, but had the ulterior purpose of enticing them to go to the mountains and love them as he did. He was a missionary seeking to make converts to his passionate devotion to granite crags, with snow banners skyward tossed, to glaciers sculpturing the mountains, to forests of fragrant singing spruce and pine, and to all the inhabitants thereof. r&^\u3e It was my rare privilege to know him in my young manhood and to grow closer to him with advancing years. We occupied a stateroom together on the Harriman Alaska Expedition and I have wandered alone with him over the Muir Glacier and on poppy strewn tundras of the islands of Behring Sea. I have been with him in Kings River Canyon and Yosemite in California and have spent many happy days at his home, and other rare days when he visited at my home. He was always the same, unceasingly absorbed in nature and her lore, ever eager for a listener to whom he could unburden his pent up soul with the storied richness of a life spent in adoration of the wilderness. r&§& Another friend of my young days was Charles Warren Stoddard. Before good fortune carried me on a year\u27s pilgrimage to Tahiti, Samoa and Hawaii, I had read Stoddard\u27s Lazy Letters from Low Latitudes and had caught the magic of those tropic South Sea Islands from his deft pen. The years he spent in Polynesia were the inspiration for glamorous essays collected in his South Sea Idyls. He was a poet and a romancer, absorbing the atmosphere of these isles of enchantment, and with a craftsman\u27s artistry depicting their charm in enduring pages. &f6&\u3e The letter of John Muir to Charles Warren Stoddard here reproduced was sent from the Yosemite Valley on February 20th, but the year was omitted. He refers, however, to Mr. Emerson, who last spring asked him many questions about Stoddard. As Emerson visited the Yosemite in May, 1871, this letter must have been written in February, 18 7 2. At that time Muir was thirty-three years old and Stoddard twenty-eight. r6%S\u3e Stoddard had published a volume of poems in 1867, and had spent about seven years in Hawaii and the South Sea Islands as correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. This letter of Muir\u27s must have been written shortly after Stoddard\u27s return from the islands, and the year before his South Sea Idyls was published. r§^&\u3e Can we not see Muir, the mountain haunter and nature prophet seeking to lure a kindred spirit into his temple to join him in worship? And his guardian angel, Mrs. Carr, wife of Professor Carr, formerly of the University of Wisconsin, but living in Oakland at the time of this letter, was ever solicitous of her gifted young friend, and eager to provide fitting companionship for him in his solitude. The Mrs. Hutchings referred to was the wife of the discoverer of Yosemite Valley. Muir worked in Hutchings\u27 saw mill and lived for a time in one of his log cabins. t&5& It was in 1871 that Muir wrote his first articles. They were on the influence of glaciers in sculpturing the Yosemite Valley. Some two years after the letter to Stoddard was written, he commenced a series of contributions to the Overland Monthly. And so in this letter we glimpse Muir at the very outset of his literary career, but when he had already made the acquaintance of Professor Joseph LeConte, Asa Grey, Emerson and other great men of the day. &S& If we had no other evidence than this one letter that John Muir was another of the great souls of his time, it would be convincing. It is characteristic of all that he stood for in life. It is an epistle as from one of the apostles of old. Stand upon our Domes and let spirit winds blow through you and you will sing effortless as an Eolian harp. Thus spoke the prophets in an earlier day. But our modern prophet was not merely a rhapsodist. It is to him, more than to any other one person, that we owe the great national treasury of forest parks which so long as our country endures will remind us of this adopted son of our soil. But when the wilderness speaks to us in words, it will be the words of John Muir, calling to all the world: Glory to God in the highest! &%$\u3e r^S^\u3e CHARLES KEELER JOHN MUIRhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/1435/thumbnail.jp

Mississippi Gulf Coast, Year-A-Round Vacationland Postcard

This color double length postcard of the Mississippi Gulf Coast shows points of interest, principal highways, and a bird’s-eye view of the best vacationland in America. The front of the card appears as a map with various points of interest illustrations and the title Mississippi Gulf Coast Year-A-Round Vacationland in the lower right corner. The back of the card features the caption The Mississippi Gulf Coast...showing points of interest, principal highways, and a birdeye view of the best vacationland in America. as well as publisher and printer information. Three lines for writing are on the right half of the card and indication for postage stamp placement is in the upper right corner.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-lampton-images-ms-coast/1520/thumbnail.jp

Phase 1 Inspection Report: National Dam Safety Program. Mississippi - Kaskaskia - St. Louis Basin. Cadet Mine Tailings Dam, Washington County, Missouri

This report presents the results of field inspection and evaluation of the Cadet Mine Tailings Dam. It was prepared under the National Program of Inspection of Non-Federal Dams

Southern California: Memos 38-78

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Southern California Vision And Reports (1983-1987)

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Southern California: Memos 132-185

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Southern California: Memos 1-34

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