 | Help Save California's Only Tribal College (DQU) Help Save California's Only Tribal College. THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE INSTITUTION IS D-Q UNIVERSITY. THE COLLEGE DERIVES IT'S NAME FROM TWO IMPORTANT FIGURES FROM NATIVE HISTORY. THE "D" STANDS FOR THE NAME OF THE GREAT PEACEMAKER WHO INSPIRED THE FOUNDING OF THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY; THE FULL NAME SYMBOLIZED BY THE "D" IS USED ONLY IN RELIGIOUS CONTEXT. THE "Q" REPRESENTS QUETZALCOATL, AN AZTEC PROPHET, WHO SYMBOLIZES THE PRINCIPLES OF WISDOM AND SELF-DISCIPLINE. History of D-Q University and Surround Area. For Thousands of Years The region Surrounding Davis, where D-Q University is Located, was the home of Wintun Peoples (Poowin and Patwin). Later, the area became known as Laguna de Santos Calle under a Mexican Land Grant. In 1868 Davisville was founded and named after a local farmer, Jerome C. Davis. The "ville" was removed in 1907, and the name officially changed in 1917 when the city was incorporated. D-Q University is Located on 643 acres on the site of a FORMER ARMY COMMUNICATIONS RELAY STATION. Prior to 1951, when the Communication station was built, the site was used for Agriculture. The Army Constructed Several buildings in the Center of the Land. In 1970, the Army Vacated the Site which then became FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY PLACED UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE. At this Time a Number of Native Americans and Chicanos ESTABLISHED A CLAIM ON THE SITE WITH THE INTENT OF FORMING A SCHOOL CONTROLLED BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. AFTER LENGTHY NEGOTIATIONS, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AWARDED D-Q UNIVERSITY TITLE TO THE LAND IN 1971, UNDER PROVISIONS OF THE FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY LAWS. Native Peoples Gained The FIRST AND ONLY INDIGENOUS-CONTROLLED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING LOCATED OUT SIDE A RESERVATION IN JULY 1971, WHEN D-Q UNIVERSITY OPENED IT'S DOORS FOR THE FIRST CLASSES. IT ALSO REPRESENTED THE FIRST TIME THAT THE DIVERSE GROUPS OF NATIVE RACES ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT SUCCESSFULLY WORKED TOGETHER ON A PROJECT, DESPITE VAST LANGUAGE BARRIERS, GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFERENCES AND OUTSIDE PRESSURES. ON NOVEMBER 4, 1978, D-Q UNIVERSITY BECAME INDIAN-CONTROLLED. THE CAMPUS PROPERTY CONTINUED TO REMAIN IN TRUST UNTIL APRIL 2, 2001 WHEN THE PROPERTY WAS TURNED OVER TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. PAST ACTIVITIES AT D-Q UNIVERSITY D-Q UNIVERSITY HAS HOSTED DELEGATIONS AND VISITING SCHOLARS FROM SEVERAL INDIAN NATIONS, AS WELL AS FROM CANADA, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA, AND ASIA. IN ADDITION, THE COLLEGE HAS HOSTED ACTIVITIES SUCH AS CALIFORNIA INDIAN BIG NEWS, CULTURAL DAY'S, SPIRITUAL UNITY CONFERENCES, YOUTH AND ELDER GATHERINGS, STUDENT ORGANIZATIONAL MEETINGS SUCH AS AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES AND STATEWIDE M.E.Ch.A CONFERENCES, POWWOWS, CEREMONIES, FESTIVALS, CONCERTS, THE AMERICAN INDIAN 5OO-MILE MARATHON, AND OTHER EVENTS. D-Q UNIVERSITY HAS GRADUATED MANY NATIVE AMERICANS, CHICANOS AND STUDENTS FROM VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS, WHO HAVE GONE ON TO HIGHER ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND TRIBAL SECTORS. THE COLLEGE HAS ALSO SPONSORED TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS, COURSES, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, AND SPECIALIZED OFFERINGS. THE COLLEGE HAS HOSTED CALIFORNIA INDIAN ASSOCIATION WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES ON INDIAN AND CHICANO EDUCATION AND HISTORY INCLUDING "CALIFORNIA INDIANS AND THE MISSION SYSTEM," AND SEMINARS ON IMPLEMENTING LITERACY PROGRAMS. LOCATION OF D-Q UNIVERSITY: D-Q UNIVERSITY IS LOCATED ON COUNTRY ROAD 31, SEVERAL MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF DAVIS, AND 5 MILES EAST OF WINTERS, CALIFORNIA, IN RURAL YOLO COUNTY. DAVIS IS LOCATED 14 MILES WEST OF SACRAMENTO AND 72 MILES NORTH-EAST OF SAN FRANCISCO. THE SACRAMENTO METROPOLITAN AIRPORT IS APPROXIMATELY 30 MINUTES DRIVING DISTANCE FROM DAVIS. For More Information On DQ-University Go To: http://www.myspace.com/dquniversity |
 | Chicano - Quest for a Homeland - Part 1 Part 1, "Quest for a Homeland," examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the Southwest. It then moves on to discuss Rodolfo (Corky) Gonzales and his founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1966. Focusing on the importance of his poem I am Joaquin, it highlights how Gonzales reached out to Chicano youth. This segment is useful for its discussion of the roots of Chicano nationalism through its affirmation of cultural identity grounded in Aztec myths such as that of Aztlán, the mythical Chicano homeland. |
 | Chicano - Quest for a Homeland - Part 2 Part 1, "Quest for a Homeland," examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the Southwest. It then moves on to discuss Rodolfo (Corky) Gonzales and his founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1966. Focusing on the importance of his poem I am Joaquin, it highlights how Gonzales reached out to Chicano youth. This segment is useful for its discussion of the roots of Chicano nationalism through its affirmation of cultural identity grounded in Aztec myths such as that of Aztlán, the mythical Chicano homeland. |
 | Chicano - Quest for a Homeland - Part 3 Part 1, "Quest for a Homeland," examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the Southwest. It then moves on to discuss Rodolfo (Corky) Gonzales and his founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1966. Focusing on the importance of his poem I am Joaquin, it highlights how Gonzales reached out to Chicano youth. This segment is useful for its discussion of the roots of Chicano nationalism through its affirmation of cultural identity grounded in Aztec myths such as that of Aztlán, the mythical Chicano homeland. |
 | Chicano - Quest for a Homeland - Part 6 Part 1, "Quest for a Homeland," examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the Southwest. It then moves on to discuss Rodolfo (Corky) Gonzales and his founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1966. Focusing on the importance of his poem I am Joaquin, it highlights how Gonzales reached out to Chicano youth. This segment is useful for its discussion of the roots of Chicano nationalism through its affirmation of cultural identity grounded in Aztec myths such as that of Aztlán, the mythical Chicano homeland. |
 | Chicano - Quest for a Homeland - Part 4 Part 1, "Quest for a Homeland," examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the Southwest. It then moves on to discuss Rodolfo (Corky) Gonzales and his founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1966. Focusing on the importance of his poem I am Joaquin, it highlights how Gonzales reached out to Chicano youth. This segment is useful for its discussion of the roots of Chicano nationalism through its affirmation of cultural identity grounded in Aztec myths such as that of Aztlán, the mythical Chicano homeland. |
 | La Lomita: South Texas Haunting http://myspace.com/lasmilpas http://www.lasmilpasproductions.com This is our first documentary. Its about this place called La Lomita in Mission TX and its supposed to be haunted. "Little Hill" adjoins the historical site of a former mission and ranch headquarters maintained by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The property comprised of two Spanish land grants awarded in 1767. The "little hill" is on what became known as the La Lomita grant. The La Lomita grant came into the possession of John Davis Bradburn in 1842. Bradburn, died that year and is buried somewhere on the property. His Mexican widow sold the land in 1845 to René Guyard, a French merchant in Reynosa. Upon Guyard's death in 1861, his will left the La Lomita grant to Oblate priests. The French Oblates had been ministering to the Catholics of the Rio Grande country since 1849. The priests used La Lomita as a meeting place since it was a midway point between their mission in Brownsville and Roma. In 1884 the designation La Lomita was extended to the entire property (two original grants). As yet there was no chapel at La Lomita. Managing the enterprise from Brownsville proved to be impossible and attempts to raise crops were disasters. In 1899 the ranch was made the residential headquarters of a new Oblate mission district for all of Hidalgo County. It was at this time that the old chapel was built. The Oblates sold most of their La Lomita ranch property in 1907 to provide funds to develop churches and schools that were springing up along the newly-arrived railroad. Developers James W. Conway and John J. Hoit named the new townsite along the railroad Mission, to honor the Oblate's work. The Oblates retained 100 acres in the new town and 300 acres along the river, including the La Lomita hill and chapel. When the Oblates moved to Mission around 1910, the ranch and chapel at La Lomita deteriorated from neglect. In 1912 a large three-story brick building was built to house a novitiate program. The old chapel at La Lomita was repaired and furnished in 1928 "as a precious relic of the past and a Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe." A hurricane in 1933 caused damage which was repaired in 1939. In 1975 La Lomita was added to the National Register. In 1976 the city of Mission added visitor amenities and landscaping to make La Lomita a municipal historical park. The chapel is also the site of frequent reported sightings of a ghost. Usually seen as a woman suspended in air while praying, she is believed to be the spirit of a nun. A 1978 a book written by local author Cleo Dawson was made into a movie titled She Came to the Valley. It was filmed on location in Mission and La Lomita. |
 | Chicano - Quest for a Homeland - Part 5 Part 1, "Quest for a Homeland," examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the Southwest. It then moves on to discuss Rodolfo (Corky) Gonzales and his founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1966. Focusing on the importance of his poem I am Joaquin, it highlights how Gonzales reached out to Chicano youth. This segment is useful for its discussion of the roots of Chicano nationalism through its affirmation of cultural identity grounded in Aztec myths such as that of Aztlán, the mythical Chicano homeland. |
 | Manhattan Beach California Manhattan Beach is a city located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, USA. The population was 33,852 at the 2000 census. Of a rotating City Council of five members, Jim Aldinger is the current mayor. The city is on the Pacific Ocean coast, to the south of El Segundo, and to the north of Hermosa Beach. To the east are the cities of Hawthorne and Redondo Beach. It is one of the three Beach Cities in the South Bay. Early inhabitants, Spanish discovery and settlement In 1837, Antonio Ygnacio Avila received a land grant from Mexico for Rancho Sausal Redondo consisting of 22,500 acres. What is now Manhattan Beach was part of Rancho Sausal Redondo. The Rancho was sold to Sir Robert Burnett who used the land for sheep and cattle raising. In 1873, Sir Robert Burnett leased the land to Daniel Freeman and returned to his native Scotland. Freeman moved to the ranch with his family and increased the stock plus planted citrus trees. The 1875 drought ruined the livestock's industry and he turned to dry farming. Freeman purchased the land in the 1880s but fell into financial difficulties and sold off the land. In 1822, the newly-established Mexican government sold the land to the highest bidder. Some of the Ranchos purchased by farmers were: Aguaje de la Centinela, La Ballona, La Tijera, and Sausal Redondo, which translates into "round clump of willows." (Note that many streets in the South Bay region are named after these ranchos.) In 1822, Rancho Sausal Redondo (present day Manhattan Beach) was purchased by Antonio Ygnacio Avila, who mainly used the 22,500 acres (91 km²) for sheep grazing. Most of the original Californio land owners could not validate these properties with the US government after the Mexican-American war due to the cost of surveys, filing forms and legal fees, therefor, many lost ownership to wealthy Americans. In 1888, the Santa Fe Railroad laid tracks from Los Angeles to the Redondo Beach wharf, passing through what is now Manhattan Beach. Redondo's deepwater canyon became a port for shipping goods and passengers and a destination for a fun day at the seaside. Santa Fe terminated their passenger service in 1918 because it could not compete with the Red Car (Pacific Electric) passenger rates. In 1903, the Pacific Railway Company which merged with the Pacific Electric in 1910, installed a track along the oceanfront extending from Los Angeles to Santa Monica and then south to Redondo Beach passing through Manhattan. The tracks were just west of The Strand where the bicycle path is today. The Red Cars would run on this line until 1940. Early development |
 | Geronimo and the Apache Resistance (part 2 of 6) scalp hunters in Mexico....Geronimo's wife, mother and children are killed by Mexican soldiers "I did not pray, I had nothing left..." Then Americans took control of the Apache homelands, and white settlers were impressed by the land. 1861 war started, and lasted 25 years...The Camp Grant Massacre outrage....The reservation system is started 1876 policy of consolidating all Apache on single reservation, moving them off ancestral land, and Geronimo objects. interviews with: Anita Lester Josephine Lawhon, Bowie Arizona Narcissus Grayton, Mescalero, New Mexico Berle Kanseah Mildred Cleghorn, Apache Oklahoma Allan Houser, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
 | Mormon History: LDS (Mormon) Prophet Lorenzo Snow 1/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Zsvml57PE is a video describing how to learn more about the Mormon Church. Lorenzo Snow was the fifth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lorenzo Snow was born on April 3, 1814, in Mantua, Ohio, the fourth of seven children and the oldest son of Oliver and Rosetta Pettibone Snow. The Snows were Baptists, but they had broad religious interests. When Lorenzo was in his teens, Joseph Smith moved to Hiram, Ohio, four miles from the Snow's farm. Lorenzo Snow wrote in his own account that he heard the Book of Mormon read at his home in Mantua and later met the Prophet in Hiram in 1831. Lorenzo's mother, his two eldest sisters, and perhaps his father, were soon baptized into the Church. Lorenzo decided to continue his education at Kirtland. He joined his sisters there, and was baptized on June 19, 1836. Shorty thereafter, he received a manifestation that confirmed "a perfect knowledge that God lives, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and of the restoration of the Holy Priesthood, and the fullness of the gospel." This conviction changed the course of his life. Snow set out on a series of missions for the Church. In February, 1841, he was called to preside over the Saints in ten established branches in London. With the call to gather the Saints, Lorenzo Snow accompanied 250 saints from London to Nauvoo. On the way, the captain and several of the ship's crew joined the Church. The party reached Nauvoo in April, 1843. In the confusion following Joseph Smith's martyrdom, Lorenzo Snow chose to follow and uphold Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. On February 12, 1849, Lorenzo Snow was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. In October of 1849, he was asked to serve a mission in Italy. He went first to England and while there, was inspired to begin teaching in Italy among the long-persecuted Waldensian sect of Christianity. He did win a few converts, who migrated to Utah. Elder Snow's mission lasted three years. He visited French Switzerland and Malta, and sent missionaries into India. He also oversaw the translation of the Book of Mormon into Italian. In 1864 he was called with Ezra T. Benson and Joseph F. Smith on another mission, this time to Hawaii (then called the Sandwich Islands). In Hawaii, he experienced a near drowning and was miraculously saved. Eight years later Elder Snow accompanied George A. Smith and other Church leaders to Palestine, where they blessed the land for the gathering of the Jews on the Mount of Olives. In 1885 he served another mission among the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. Upon his return, he was arrested for practicing plural marriage and incarcerated for eleven months, before being released by a mandate from the Supreme Court. Elder Snow did not languish in prison. He taught classes there in reading, writing, mathematics, and bookkeeping. In April of 1889, Lorenzo Snow was sustained as the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and in 1893 he was called to be the first President of the Salt Lake Temple. On September 13, 1898, at the age of 84, he was sustained as the Prophet of the Church upon the death of Wilford Woodruff. By the time Lorenzo Snow became prophet, the Church was indebted in the amount of $2.3 million. This was mostly due to the fact that the U.S. Government had seized most of the Church's assets, including tithing funds, under the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887. Church members reacted by holding back their tithing donations. President Snow received revelation that full tithe-paying on the part of the Saints would be enough to bring the Church out of debt. The Saints committed to this principle, and by Lorenzo Snow's death in 1901, the Church was debt-free. As the new century dawned, President Snow envisioned a global Church. He urged the Saints in foreign lands to build their congregations there, instead of emigrating to Utah. He reopened the Mexican mission and sent Heber J. Grant to initiate missionary work in Japan. He envisioned missionary work in Russia, Austria, and Latin America. After serving for three years as President of the Church and many more in the service of the Church, President Snow passed away on October 10, 1901. |
 | Mormon History: LDS (Mormon) Prophet Lorenzo Snow 2/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Zsvml57PE is a video describing how to learn more about the Mormon Church. Lorenzo Snow was the fifth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lorenzo Snow was born on April 3, 1814, in Mantua, Ohio, the fourth of seven children and the oldest son of Oliver and Rosetta Pettibone Snow. The Snows were Baptists, but they had broad religious interests. When Lorenzo was in his teens, Joseph Smith moved to Hiram, Ohio, four miles from the Snow's farm. Lorenzo Snow wrote in his own account that he heard the Book of Mormon read at his home in Mantua and later met the Prophet in Hiram in 1831. Lorenzo's mother, his two eldest sisters, and perhaps his father, were soon baptized into the Church. Lorenzo decided to continue his education at Kirtland. He joined his sisters there, and was baptized on June 19, 1836. Shorty thereafter, he received a manifestation that confirmed "a perfect knowledge that God lives, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and of the restoration of the Holy Priesthood, and the fullness of the gospel." This conviction changed the course of his life. Snow set out on a series of missions for the Church. In February, 1841, he was called to preside over the Saints in ten established branches in London. With the call to gather the Saints, Lorenzo Snow accompanied 250 saints from London to Nauvoo. On the way, the captain and several of the ship's crew joined the Church. The party reached Nauvoo in April, 1843. In the confusion following Joseph Smith's martyrdom, Lorenzo Snow chose to follow and uphold Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. On February 12, 1849, Lorenzo Snow was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. In October of 1849, he was asked to serve a mission in Italy. He went first to England and while there, was inspired to begin teaching in Italy among the long-persecuted Waldensian sect of Christianity. He did win a few converts, who migrated to Utah. Elder Snow's mission lasted three years. He visited French Switzerland and Malta, and sent missionaries into India. He also oversaw the translation of the Book of Mormon into Italian. In 1864 he was called with Ezra T. Benson and Joseph F. Smith on another mission, this time to Hawaii (then called the Sandwich Islands). In Hawaii, he experienced a near drowning and was miraculously saved. Eight years later Elder Snow accompanied George A. Smith and other Church leaders to Palestine, where they blessed the land for the gathering of the Jews on the Mount of Olives. In 1885 he served another mission among the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. Upon his return, he was arrested for practicing plural marriage and incarcerated for eleven months, before being released by a mandate from the Supreme Court. Elder Snow did not languish in prison. He taught classes there in reading, writing, mathematics, and bookkeeping. In April of 1889, Lorenzo Snow was sustained as the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and in 1893 he was called to be the first President of the Salt Lake Temple. On September 13, 1898, at the age of 84, he was sustained as the Prophet of the Church upon the death of Wilford Woodruff. By the time Lorenzo Snow became prophet, the Church was indebted in the amount of $2.3 million. This was mostly due to the fact that the U.S. Government had seized most of the Church's assets, including tithing funds, under the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887. Church members reacted by holding back their tithing donations. President Snow received revelation that full tithe-paying on the part of the Saints would be enough to bring the Church out of debt. The Saints committed to this principle, and by Lorenzo Snow's death in 1901, the Church was debt-free. As the new century dawned, President Snow envisioned a global Church. He urged the Saints in foreign lands to build their congregations there, instead of emigrating to Utah. He reopened the Mexican mission and sent Heber J. Grant to initiate missionary work in Japan. He envisioned missionary work in Russia, Austria, and Latin America. After serving for three years as President of the Church and many more in the service of the Church, President Snow passed away on October 10, 1901. |
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