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Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
The Colorado Plateau
The Hopi Nation
Hopi Running http://library.nau.edu/speccoll/exhibits/hopitg/Hopilesson4.html
Hopi Run http://www.runhopi.com
Running in Hopi History and Culture https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/hcpo-p/running.pdf
Hopi Running http://library.nau.edu/speccoll/exhibits/hopitg/Hopilesson4.html
Hopi Run http://www.runhopi.com
Running in Hopi History and Culture https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/hcpo-p/running.pdf
- N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear - The First Native American to Win the Pulitzer. When N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “House Made of Dawn,” it was a victory for the entire Native American community. American Academy of Poets.
- Keeper of the Flame. "My father was a great storyteller and he knew many stories from the Kiowa oral tradition," says N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Regents Professor of English at the University of Arizona. "He told me many of these stories over and over because I loved them. But it was only after I became an adult that I understood how fragile they are, because they exist only by word of mouth, always just one generation away from extinction. That’s when I began to write down the tales my father and others had told me." As a writer, teacher, artist and storyteller, Momaday has devoted much of his life to safeguarding oral tradition and other aspects of Indian culture. His keen interest and erudition flavor his frequent on-screen commentary in THE WEST.
- Archives of the West. A library of primary source materials on the history of the American West, reflecting the five years' research that went into the production of THE WEST.
Exploring the Interplay Between Climate and People with Dr. Colleen Strawhacker and Dr. Grant Snitker
Pueblo farmers of the US Southwest need to plan for spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall typical of the region to ensure success of their crops. Archaeologists have observed many risk-mitigating strategies in the archaeological record, including drawing upon social networks in time of need, hunting and gathering of wild resources, and storing surplus food to help ensure food security. This presentation will introduce the research of the Long-Term Vulnerability and Transformation Project, led by Dr. Peggy Nelson at Arizona State University, and focus on how ancient Pueblos may have drawn upon various strategies to mitigate risk and how those strategies may have been stressed in times of changing climate. We model how changing climate may have driven changes to these spatial and temporal rainfall patterns, so important to Pueblo agricultural fields, potentially affecting the reliability of major strategies used to reduce risk. We then explore how these climate-driven changes may relate to archaeologically observed social transformations in the Salinas and Cibola regions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Zdrlkk3WI
Pueblo farmers of the US Southwest need to plan for spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall typical of the region to ensure success of their crops. Archaeologists have observed many risk-mitigating strategies in the archaeological record, including drawing upon social networks in time of need, hunting and gathering of wild resources, and storing surplus food to help ensure food security. This presentation will introduce the research of the Long-Term Vulnerability and Transformation Project, led by Dr. Peggy Nelson at Arizona State University, and focus on how ancient Pueblos may have drawn upon various strategies to mitigate risk and how those strategies may have been stressed in times of changing climate. We model how changing climate may have driven changes to these spatial and temporal rainfall patterns, so important to Pueblo agricultural fields, potentially affecting the reliability of major strategies used to reduce risk. We then explore how these climate-driven changes may relate to archaeologically observed social transformations in the Salinas and Cibola regions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Zdrlkk3WI
Exploring Social Environments in the Southeast and Southwest with Dr. Catherine Cameron
We know a great deal about the ancient natural environment of the Southwest but far less about the ancient social environment. Use of their territory by any human group involves more than knowing plants, animals, good soil for crops, and times to plant. All human groups are embedded in a social world of other peoples with whom they constantly interact through trade, intermarriage, inter-group ceremonies, and much more. But the social environment is hard for archaeologists to reconstruct. One sort of social behavior that is easier to see is violence: raiding and warfare. In this talk, Catherine will compare archaeological evidence for violent social environments in the U.S. Southeast and Southwest. Warfare dominated the social life of Southeastern peoples. Using settlement patterns and other evidence, I’ll show similar patterns in the Southwest during the Pueblo III and IV periods. I’ll argue that at least during those periods, violence also dominated the social environment and decision-making processes of people in the northern Southwest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM7aN7vdmPk&pp=wgIECgIIAQ%3D%3D&feature=push-sd&attr_tag=3-3WW2xQrJ0EoaqQ%3A6
We know a great deal about the ancient natural environment of the Southwest but far less about the ancient social environment. Use of their territory by any human group involves more than knowing plants, animals, good soil for crops, and times to plant. All human groups are embedded in a social world of other peoples with whom they constantly interact through trade, intermarriage, inter-group ceremonies, and much more. But the social environment is hard for archaeologists to reconstruct. One sort of social behavior that is easier to see is violence: raiding and warfare. In this talk, Catherine will compare archaeological evidence for violent social environments in the U.S. Southeast and Southwest. Warfare dominated the social life of Southeastern peoples. Using settlement patterns and other evidence, I’ll show similar patterns in the Southwest during the Pueblo III and IV periods. I’ll argue that at least during those periods, violence also dominated the social environment and decision-making processes of people in the northern Southwest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM7aN7vdmPk&pp=wgIECgIIAQ%3D%3D&feature=push-sd&attr_tag=3-3WW2xQrJ0EoaqQ%3A6
The Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest, by Stephen H. Lekson University of Colorado Boulder. "Southwestern archaeologists have long pondered the meaning and importance of the monumental 11th-century structures in Chaco Canyon. Now, Stephen H. Lekson offers a lively, provocative thesis, which attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of Chaco and its importance to the understanding of the entire Southwest. Chaco was not alone, according to Lekson, but only one of three capitals of a vast politically and economically integrated region, a network that incorporated most of the Pueblo world and that had contact as far away as Central America. A sophisticated astronomical tradition allowed for astrally aligned monumental structures, great ceremonial roads and-upon the abandonment of Chaco Canyon in the 12th century-the shift of the regional capital first to the Aztec site, then Paquime, all located on precisely the same longitudinal meridian. Lekson's ground-breaking synthesis of 500 years of Southwestern prehistory-with its explanation of phenomena as diverse as the Great North Road, macaw feathers, Pueblo mythology, and the rise of kachina ceremonies-will be of great interest to all those concerned with the prehistory and history of the American Southwest." (bookdepository.com)
Archaeology Southwest
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/projects/perry-mesa-crmp/
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/projects/perry-mesa-crmp/
“The wind will not stop. Gusts of sand swirl before me, stinging my face. But there is still too much to see and marvel at, the world very much alive in the bright light and wind. Exulant with the fever of spring, the delight of morning. Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”
-- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
-- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
The Colorado Plateau Foundation We believe that enduring, Native-led stewardship can and will transform the Colorado Plateau. Too often, Native leaders do not receive the support that they need to nurture and build out their excellent work.
Nature
Taking the Pulse of a Sandstone Tower in Utah 38.593160,-109.267550. Castleton Tower near Moab, Utah, pulsates at about the rate of a human heartbeat as it taps into the earth’s natural vibrations. Science, The New York Times. By JoAnna Klein Sept. 9, 2019.
Protect Chaco #protectchaco Udall, Heinrich, Luján, Haaland Introduce Legislation to Protect Chaco Canyon Area. April 9, 2019 Press Release Mother Earth's rights
Mother Trees .
Pando, the Trembling Giant. Fishlake National Forest. 38.487054,-112.431704. Richfield Utah One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens. LAND FOREST: Approximately 80,000 years. The Trembling Giant of Utah consists of almost 50,000 quaking aspen trees, but the entire grove of Populus tremuloides is genetically identical and shares a single root system, making it technically a single organism. This clonal colony of an individual male is also known as Pando, Latin for "I Spread Out," which it sure does, covering more than 100 acres. The leaves of one quaking aspen make quite a flutter in the gentlest of wind. Listen to the tuneful effect times tens of thousands as you overnight, right in Pando's heart, in a campground in Fishlake National Forest.
Taking the Pulse of a Sandstone Tower in Utah 38.593160,-109.267550. Castleton Tower near Moab, Utah, pulsates at about the rate of a human heartbeat as it taps into the earth’s natural vibrations. Science, The New York Times. By JoAnna Klein Sept. 9, 2019.
Protect Chaco #protectchaco Udall, Heinrich, Luján, Haaland Introduce Legislation to Protect Chaco Canyon Area. April 9, 2019 Press Release Mother Earth's rights
Mother Trees .
Pando, the Trembling Giant. Fishlake National Forest. 38.487054,-112.431704. Richfield Utah One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens. LAND FOREST: Approximately 80,000 years. The Trembling Giant of Utah consists of almost 50,000 quaking aspen trees, but the entire grove of Populus tremuloides is genetically identical and shares a single root system, making it technically a single organism. This clonal colony of an individual male is also known as Pando, Latin for "I Spread Out," which it sure does, covering more than 100 acres. The leaves of one quaking aspen make quite a flutter in the gentlest of wind. Listen to the tuneful effect times tens of thousands as you overnight, right in Pando's heart, in a campground in Fishlake National Forest.
waterways
Challenges for the Colorado River The river supplies 40 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming as well as a $5 billion-a-year agricultural industry.
Challenges for the Colorado River The river supplies 40 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming as well as a $5 billion-a-year agricultural industry.
Indigenous Environmental Network EN is an alliance of Indigenous peoples whose mission it is to protect the sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting Indigenous teachings and natural laws. Adopted in 1994 by the IEN National Council, Denver, Colorado
Intertribal Council of Arizona …To provide its member tribes with a united voice and the means for united action on matters that affect them collectively or individually…. Here is access to many tribes in Arizona.
https://www.stephenstrom.com/about/stephen-strom/
Intertribal Council of Arizona …To provide its member tribes with a united voice and the means for united action on matters that affect them collectively or individually…. Here is access to many tribes in Arizona.
https://www.stephenstrom.com/about/stephen-strom/
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| The Mystery of Chaco Canyon |