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Chapter name Chapter name (Navajo) Chapter name (English literal translation) Agency Population (2010 Census) Land area (acres) 1 Coppermine: Béésh Haagééd "Digging out Metal" Tuba City / Western 590 240,000 1 LeChee: Łichíiʼii (name of extinct burgundy-colored medicinal plant) Tuba City / Western 1,443 293,000 1 Tonalea: Tó Nehelį́į́h
Rev. Henry Charlton Beck (May 26, 1902 – January 16, 1965) [1] [3] was an author, journalist, historian, ordained Episcopal minister [1] and folklorist.He authored six books about New Jersey history, forgotten towns, and regional folklore which were published by E.P. Dutton & Co. and later reprinted by Rutgers University Press.
Robert Hood (1797–21 October 1821), born in Portarlington, Ireland, was an Anglo-Irish Royal Navy officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic, and military artist. [1]In 1819, Hood was appointed midshipman on the Coppermine expedition, where he, along with George Back, was an official artist.
Coppermine may refer, apart from the primary meaning of copper extraction, to: Coppermine Bay, Greenland; Coppermine Herald, one of the heralds at the Canadian ...
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
Franklin's orders were somewhat general in nature. He was to travel overland to Great Slave Lake, and from there go to the coast by way of the Coppermine River.On reaching the coast he was advised to head east towards Repulse Bay and William Edward Parry's (hopefully victorious) ships, but if it seemed better he was also given the option of going west to map the coastline between the ...
Samuel Hearne (February 1745 – November 1792) was an English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist.. He was the first European to make an overland excursion across northern Canada to the Arctic Ocean, specifically to Coronation Gulf, via the Coppermine River.
The Bloody Falls massacre was an incident that took place during Hudson's Bay Company employee Samuel Hearne's exploration of the Coppermine River for copper deposits near modern-day Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada on 17 July 1771.