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Piestewa can refer to:

  • Lori Piestewa, a Native American woman killed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
  • Piestewa Peak, the second highest point in the Phoenix Mountains
  • Piestewa Freeway, a nickname for Arizona Route 51 in Metropolitan Phoenix

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Lori Piestewa

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Lori Ann Piestewa (/paɪˈɛstəwɑː/ py-ES-tə-wah; December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003) was a United States Army soldier killed during the Iraq War. A member...

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Piestewa Peak

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Piestewa Peak (/paɪˈɛstəwɑː/ py-ES-tə-wah; O'odham: Vainom Do'ag, formerly Squaw Peak), at 2,610 feet (796 m) is the second highest point in the Phoenix...

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Piestewa

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Piestewa can refer to: Lori Piestewa, a Native American woman killed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq Piestewa Peak, the second highest point in the Phoenix...

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Arizona State Route 51

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Arizona State Route 51 (SR 51), also known as the Piestewa Freeway, is a numbered state highway in Phoenix, Arizona. It connects Interstate 10 and Loop...

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Jessica Lynch

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Piestewa, received a serious head wound and died in an Iraqi civilian hospital. A video of some of the American prisoners of war, including Piestewa,...

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Phoenix Mountains

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Shaw Butte North Mountain Echo Mountain Stoney Mountain South Mountain Piestewa Peak (formerly named Squaw Peak) Mummy Mountain Camelback Mountain Sunnyslope...

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Place names considered unusual

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2003, Squaw Peak in Phoenix, Arizona, was renamed to Piestewa Peak, after Specialist Lori Ann Piestewa, a Hopi soldier killed in action during the United...

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Crystle Lightning

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has been in several films, with her most notable role portraying Lori Piestewa in Saving Jessica Lynch. She played the lead role of Jo in 3 Ninjas Knuckle...

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Battle of Nasiriyah

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Jessica Lynch, Specialist Shoshana Johnson and Private First Class Lori Piestewa. Piestewa died of her wounds soon afterward. After a delay, the Marines of 1st...

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Nasiriyah

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soldiers were killed and Army Private Jessica Lynch, Army Private Lori Piestewa and Specialist Shoshana Johnson were taken prisoners of war during the...

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Missing white woman syndrome

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Shoshana Johnson and Lori Piestewa. All three were ambushed in the same attack during the Iraq War on March 23, 2003, with Piestewa being killed, and Lynch...

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Phoenix Lights

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and went through a V opening in the peaks of the mountain range towards Piestewa Peak Mountain and toward the direction of Phoenix Sky Harbor International...

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2003 invasion of Iraq

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were captured. Piestewa died of wounds shortly after capture, while the remaining five prisoners of war were later rescued. Piestewa, who was from Tuba...

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Camelback Mountain

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Trail. View from south end of summit showing formations as well as distant Piestewa Peak (background, center). Arizona portal Geography portal List of historic...

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Military history of Native Americans

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in Arizona was renamed Piestewa Peak after her. There is also an annual event which is named in memory of her: Lori Piestewa National Native American...

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Roads and freeways in metropolitan Phoenix

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The Piestewa Freeway begins at the Mini Stack interchange with I-10 and Loop 202 and proceeds north through the city of Phoenix towards Piestewa Peak...

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Phoenix Mountains Preserve

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States. The Phoenix Mountains Park and Recreation Area (better known as Piestewa Peak; formerly Squaw Peak), the first of these parks to be preserved, has...

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Saving Jessica Lynch

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Benjamin King as 1st Sergeant Robert J. Dowdy Crystle Lightning as PFC Lori Piestewa Susan Pari as Iman Al-Rehaief Denise Lee as Specialist Shoshana Johnson...

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Osha Gray Davidson

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starring Sam Rockwell and Taraji Henson. His Rolling Stone article about Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die in combat fighting for the United...

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Squaw

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standardization. Piestewa Peak in Phoenix, Arizona, replaced the name Squaw Peak in 2003; the new name honors Iraq War casualty PFC Lori Piestewa (Hopi), the...

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United States Army Quartermaster Corps

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action Private First Class Jessica Lynch, captured Private First Class Lori Piestewa, killed in action Private Brandon Sloan, killed in action Private Ruben...

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Modern social statistics of Native Americans

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Americans Phillip Martin, Dia Molnar, Harvey Pratt, Jamie Oxendine, Joe Shirley, Jr., Lori Piestewa, Robbie Robertson, Mary Kim Titla and John Herrington...

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Phoenix metropolitan area

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Maricopa Freeway) US 60 (Maricopa Freeway, Superstition Freeway) SR 51 (Piestewa Freeway) SR 143 (Hohokam Expressway) Loop 101 (Agua Fria, Pima, Price Freeway)...

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Sierra Madre Occidental

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Ballard (Arizona) Phoenix Mountains Camelback Mountain Mummy Mountain Piestewa Peak South Mountains Sunnyslope Mountain Pinal Mountains Pinal Peak Pinaleño...

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