It gets really dark in the Redwood Forest...
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Exit 645 Traveling North on Highway 101
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The Avenue of the Giants is a scenic highway that parallels the Eel River in northern California... running through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It is named after the coastal redwoods that tower over the route. The road is a former alignment of U.S. Route 101
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In 1821, a Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah unveiled an extraordinary invention - a writing system that would transform his nation. Despite never learning to read or write in English, Sequoyah created 86 symbols representing every sound in the Cherokee language.
Within just 5 years of its official adoption in 1825, the Cherokee people achieved a 90% literacy rate - higher than their white neighbors. The system was so effective that parents and children often learned to read and write together, gathering in candlelit cabins to practice the new symbols.
The Cherokee Nation flourished, establishing their own bilingual newspaper, writing their own constitution, and developing a sophisticated government system. Their farms and plantations prospered as they selectively adapted useful European practices while maintaining their cultural identity.
But this remarkable achievement couldn't protect them from forced removal. Despite their advanced civilization, the Cherokee were driven from their ancestral lands in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears. Yet Sequoyah's syllabary survived, ensuring their language and stories would endure for generations.
Sources: Cherokee Traditions (Western Carolina University), Northeastern University Global Resilience Institute, University of Kansas Cherokee Language Studies
#CherokeeHistory #Sequoyah #CulturalHeritage
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All they will call you will be "deportees."
My father's own father, he waded that river. They took all the money he made in his life. My brothers and sisters came workin' the fruit trees, They rode the big trucks 'till they laid down and died.
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria. You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be "deportees."
The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightnin' an' it shook all the hills. Who are these comrades, they're dying like the dry leaves? The radio tells me, "They're just deportees." We died in your hills and we died in your deserts, We died in your valleys, we died in your plains. We died 'neath your trees and we died 'neath your bushes, Both sides of the river we died just the same.
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria. You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be "deportees"
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? To die like the dry leaves and rot on my topsoil And be known by no name except "deportee."
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria. You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be "deportees."
All they will call you will be "deportees."
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