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Shavano Valley Petroglyphs, Part 4: Curiosities

This week I want to share with you some of the more curious petroglyphs at the Shavano Valley Petroglyph site near Montrose, Colorado....

Shavano Valley Petroglyphs, Part 3: The Bear Dance

The Bear panel at Shavano Valley Petroglyph site near Montrose, Colorado, is an intriguing example of Ute symbolism. The panel...

Shavano Valley Petroglyphs, Part 1: Tunnel Cave

A few miles northeast of Montrose, Colorado, canyon walls look down on fertile Shavano Valley. Pecked onto the patina of Dakota...

Cherokee Fables: What the Stars are Like

This week the sky provided us with wondrous things to observe. Sunday was this year’s “Supermoon” which is the first full moon when the...

Cherokee Fables: The Moon And The Thunders

The Sun was a young woman and lived in the East, while her brother, the Moon. lived in the West. The girl had a lover who used to come...

Cherokee Fables: How They Brought Back Tobacco

In the beginning of the world, when people and animals were all the same, there was only one tobacco plant, to which they all came for...

Cherokee Fables: The Daughter Of The Sun

The Sun lived on the other side of the sky vault, but her daughter lived in the middle of the sky, directly above the earth, and every...

Kana’tï And Selu Part 2: The Origin Of Game And Corn

Part 2: Wild Game A few days later the boys went back to the swamp, cut some reeds, and made seven arrows and then started up the...

Cherokee Fables: The Journey To The Sunrise

A long time ago several young men made up their minds to find the place where the Sun lives and see what the Sun is like. They got ready...

Cherokee Fables: Origin of Disease and Medicine

In the old days the beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and plants could all talk, and they and the people lived together in peace and...

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