23-foot arrows point to area's Comanche history, legacy

Sculpture artist Charles A. Smith hopes to preserve a fragment of Native American history with each 23-foot Comanche arrow he sets in place to mark the Quanah Parker Trail.

Arrows tracing path of Comanche chief

Line by line, arrow by arrow, the lifetime of Quanah Parker is being pieced together by historians of the Texas Plains Trail Region.

'500 Years of Chicano History' Available Free to Local (Former) Mexican American Studies Students

Publishers of the book 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures , one of the books banned from the Tucson Unified School District's now dismantled Mexican American Studies classes, is offering 1,000 books to TUSD Mexican American Studies students: [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Artist Dennis Downes to appear at Antioch Library

ANTIOCH — The Antioch Public Library District will host world-renowned artist, author and Antioch resident Dennis Downes during a signing of his book “Native American Trail Marker Trees: Marking Paths through the Wilderness” Jan. 29 at 1 p.m. at 757 N. Main St. Recently published by Chicago’s Books Press, the book is a culmination of Downes’ 30 years of research, this book details trail trees ...

History Will Prove Arizona Wrong for Banned Ethnic Studies

On January 17, 2012, the Board of the Tucson Unified School District closed its Raza Studies courses in compliance with House Bill 2281, of the Arizona House of Representatives, which effectively banned the teaching of ethnic studies in Arizona public schools.