Maidu Tribe
3rd Grade Native American Project
Rocklin Then and Now - 125th Anniversary Video
Rocklin has a rich history and is primed for continued success. The future is bright thanks to the businesses, organizations and residents that make up the community! This video debuted at the State of the City of Rocklin on March 9 and celebrates Rocklin's 125th Anniversary.
Thank you to featured businesses Ruhkala Granite, TITANS of CNC, Prospect Snow Ski and Wake, Moksa Brewing Co., Harley-Davidson of Rocklin & Folsom, Blacktop Comedy and @Cante Ao Vinho.
Thank you to organizaitons including the Rocklin Area Chamber of Commerce,Rocklin Historical Society, and Rocklin Kiwanis Club & Events for all the work they do in the community and with the anniversary.
Last but not least, thank you to Taylor McMahon Video Production for bringing the video to life!
Colfax, California
Colfax (formerly, Alden Grove, Alder Grove, Illinoistown, and Upper Corral) is a city in Placer County, California, at the crossroads of Interstate 80 and State Route 174. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,963 at the 2010 census. The town is named in honor of U.S. Vice President Schuyler Colfax (1869–73), a bronze statue of whom stands at Railroad Street and Grass Valley Street. (This is the only known statue of Schuyler Colfax in the United States). Some of the town's notable features include the newly restored Southern Pacific Railroad colonnade-style depot (which houses the Colfax Museum and Chamber of Commerce) built in 1905, the downtown shops on Main Street, and Colfax High School, which serves a large surrounding area.
Originally inhabited by the Maidu and Miwok Indians, by the mid-19th century the city site was known as Alder Grove; however, as development increased, the city became known as Illinoistown.
Later it was renamed Colfax after then Speaker of the House (and later Vice President) Schuyler Colfax who visited the town in 1865 while inspecting progress of construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the first transcontinental railroad. The city was the southern terminus of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad from 1876 until the railroad’s removal in 1942. Historic U.S. Route 40 also runs through the city as well as the more modern Interstate 80. The city is mentioned in Jules Verne’s book, Around the World in Eighty Days.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 square miles, all of it land. The 2010 United States Census reported that Colfax had a population of 1,963.
City of Roseville, CA - Parks, Recreation & Libraries Director Dion Louthan
Roseville Parks, Recreation & Libraries is often described as the “quality of life department”. Watch Director Dion Louthan talk about the services they provide and how potential cutbacks might impact those services.
Chinese problem in Placer County
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Chinese Whispers: Sierra StoriesSM is our pilot production developed as a California Story Fund project of the California Council on the Humanities. It is the result of four years of research and interviews by Artistic and Project Director Rene Yung to unearth and document handed-down folk memories of the Chinese in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and culminated in a multimedia storytelling event presented in collaboration with the Placer Arts Council at the Tower Theater in Roseville, CA, in August, 2009. The event is documented on a DVD.
Nine community tellers ranging from 19 to 90 years of age participated in the event, including 90-year old Adele Bellmer of Loomis who related stories from her family, and Virgil Wong of Grass Valley who acted as a proxy teller for elder members of the Wong family of Rocklin. Stories for the production covered a range of localities in Placer County, from Roseville, Rocklin, Loomis, Auburn, and Colfax, to Dutch Flat.
Rather than trying to re-create complete narratives out of fragmented records, the storytelling script highlights the fragmentary nature of the material in an evocative composition that reveals traces of the historical times, and poetically conveys “what we will never know for certain about these early Chinese men and women who helped build the American West,” as Yung wrote in her Introduction. She also developed the production to reinvigorate community stewardship in this overlooked part of their local history in the fast-changing Sierra Nevada region.
Maidu
3rd grade research report
UAIC Tribal Historic Preservation Committee - 2013 Governor's Historic Preservation Awards
This video is about the work of the Tribal Historic Preservation Committee of the United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria in California. The committee received a California Governor's Historic Preservation Award in 2013.
ViewFinder: Echoes of a Lost Valley - KVIE
Imagine a time in California when large concentrations of Indians lived in harmony with nature's abundance, an abundance that included fields of wildflowers and majestic herds of elk and antelope. Discover these mostly lost sights and sounds through computer-generated graphics and stunning images accompanied by a soundscape of the past.
Native American Presentations
Mrs. Pierce's class presents their Native American projects by leading instruction using technology.
Sacramento, California | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Sacramento, California
00:02:46 1 History
00:02:55 1.1 Pre-Columbian period
00:03:29 1.2 Spanish period
00:04:23 1.3 Mexican period
00:05:39 1.4 American period
00:11:05 1.5 Modern era
00:15:22 2 Geography
00:16:37 2.1 Cityscape
00:16:45 2.1.1 City neighborhoods
00:19:29 2.2 Climate
00:23:44 3 Demographics
00:24:22 3.1 2010
00:29:51 3.2 2000
00:32:48 4 Economy
00:34:00 4.1 Top employers
00:34:13 5 Culture
00:34:22 5.1 Performing arts
00:36:46 5.2 Visual arts
00:37:33 5.3 Museums
00:39:59 5.4 Music
00:41:35 5.5 Film
00:42:38 5.6 Cuisine
00:44:35 5.7 LGBTQ
00:45:22 5.8 Old Sacramento
00:46:57 5.9 Chinatown
00:49:13 6 Sports
00:51:36 7 Parks and recreation
00:54:26 8 Government
00:55:44 8.1 State and Federal representation
00:56:22 9 Education
00:56:31 9.1 Higher education
01:01:33 9.2 Primary & secondary education
01:04:26 10 Media
01:04:35 10.1 Magazines
01:04:52 10.2 Newspapers
01:06:12 10.3 Radio
01:06:20 10.4 Television stations
01:06:29 11 Transportation
01:06:47 11.1 Roads and highways
01:08:44 11.2 Rail service
01:11:07 11.3 Airport
01:12:02 11.4 Other transportation options
01:14:36 12 Notable residents
01:14:45 13 Sister cities
01:15:01 14 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Sacramento ( SAK-rə-MEN-toh; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's estimated 2018 population of 501,334 makes it the sixth-largest city in California and the 9th largest capital in the United States. Sacramento is the seat of the California Assembly, the Governor of California, and Supreme Court of California, making it the state's political center and a hub for lobbying and think tanks. Sacramento is also the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which had 2010 population of 2,414,783, making it the fifth largest in California.Sacramento is the fastest-growing major city in California, owing to its status as notable financial center on the West Coast and as a major educational hub, home of Sacramento State University and University of California, Davis. Similarly, Sacramento is a major center for the California healthcare industry, as the seat of Sutter Health, the world-renowned UC Davis Medical Center, and the UC Davis School of Medicine, and notable tourist destination in California, as the site of The California Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, California Hall of Fame, the California State Capitol Museum, and the Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Sacramento is known for its evolving contemporary culture, dubbed the most hipster city in California. In 2002, the Harvard University Civil Rights Project conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento America's Most Diverse City.Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area was inhabited by the Nisenan people indigenous peoples of California. Spanish cavalryman Gabriel Moraga named surveyed and named the Rio del Santísimo Sacramento (Sacramento River) in 1808, after the Blessed Sacrament, referring to the Eucharist in the Catholic Church. In 1839, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mexican governor of Alta California granted the responsibility of colonizing the Sacramento Valley to Swiss-born, Mexican citizen John Augustus Sutter, who subsequently established Sutter's Fort and the settlement at the Rancho Nueva Helvetia. Following the American Conquest of California and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the waterfront developed by Sutter began to be developed and incorporated in 1850 as the City of Sacramento. As a result of the California Gold Rush, Sacramento became a major commercial center and distribution point for Northern California, serving as the terminus for the Pony Express and the First Transcontinental Railroad.
Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series - May 1, 2018 - Benajmin Madley, Ph.D.
Title: American Genocide
The Holocaust & Genocide Lecture Series is supported by the SSU Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Fund, the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, the Paul V. Benko Holocaust Education Endowment, the Armenian Genocide Memorial Lecture Fund, the Adele Zygielbaum En, the Thomas Family Foundation, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide and the Jewish Community Federation (JCF).