Nancy J. Taniguchi
Nancy Taniguchi, de Washington, DC, formou-se em Antropologia pela Universidade do Arizona e depois morou na Cidade do México e em Kuala Lumpur, na Malásia. Ela se mudou para Utah com o marido (nativo de Utah), onde obteve sua pós-graduação. Ela agora é professora de História na California State University, Stanislaus.
Atualizado em 28 de fevereiro de 2008
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Japanese Americans in Utah
27 de Fevereiro de 2008 • Nancy J. Taniguchi
From earliest human habitation, the area now called Utah exhibited diversity. The prehistoric Fremont and Anasazi built villages and cultivated crops. Goshuite, Paiute, Navajo (Dine’), Shoshone, and Ute cultures replaced them, the last of whom gave its name to the state. Subsequent groups squeezed Native Americans to marginal lands where they remain today. First, in the 1700s, the Spanish (then the Mexicans) forged the Old Spanish Trail, which bisects Utah. They brought the gift of horses, but also enslaved native …
