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February 23, 1972 (Ottawa City Park: Ottawa: In 1857 a German immigrant settled three miles south and two and one-fourth miles west of the present town of Princeton; in 1859, he built this cabin on a hill overlooking the Humboldt trail to replace the original cabin which was destroyed in a prairie fire.
The name derives from the Ottawa tribe of Native Americans, on whose reservation the city was laid out.In the spring of 1864, title to the land was obtained from the tribe through treaty connected to the founding of Ottawa University, the Ottawa having donated 20,000 acres of land to establish and fund a school for the education of Indians and non-Indians alike.
The largest of MCHB's programs is administration of the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant Program, [8] the nation's oldest federal-state partnership. A total of 59 States and jurisdictions receive Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant funding. In fiscal year 2009, State Title V programs served over 39 million individuals.
Established in 2005, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) is the world’s largest alliance for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being, with over 1,400 partner organizations working together through 10 constituency groups: partner governments, donors and foundations, NGOs, adolescent and youth groups, private sector organizations, health ...
The decorating was done during an annual multi-day spring celebration. It designated tribal identity; for example, decorating newborn children was a way to welcome them into the tribe. Forbidding a person to wear ochre was a form of punishment. Their main food were caribou, salmon, and seals, augmented by harvesting other animal and plant ...
Ottawa Township is a township in Franklin County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 868. Geography. Ottawa Township covers an area of 43.04 ...
According to the UNFPA, maternal deaths would be reduced by about two-thirds, from 287,000 to 105,000, if needs for modern family planning and maternal and newborn health care were met. [15] Therefore, investing in family planning and improved maternal health care brings many benefits including reduced risks of complications and improvement in ...
The Franklin County Courthouse, located in Courthouse Square on Main Street in Ottawa, is the seat of government of Franklin County, Kansas. The courthouse was built in 1892. Although Ottawa had been the county seat since 1864, it lacked a permanent courthouse prior to then.