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...
Ancient Native American Trade: Cotton
May292014 One of my earliest memories was walking bare foot on the cool, muddy rows between tall stalks of cotton on our cotton farm in...
Killing Lean Bear, Part 3
It was probably a peaceful, happy morning for the families of Black Kettle’s warriors who were off on a buffalo hunt. Black Kettle...
Killing Lean Bear, Part 2
Lean Bear and the other Cheyenne chiefs came away from their meeting with President Lincoln in 1862 feeling good about the outcome. They...
Killing Lean Bear, Part 1
It was while reading one of my favorite authors, Margaret Coel’s book “Killing Custer” that I was reminded of the killing of Chief Lean...