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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...

Unique Beings Being Unique: Cherokee vs Algonquin

I am constantly struck by the images evoked by the term “Native American”. I find that the English language has a way of sorting and...

Native American History: Rediscovery of Ancestral Pueblos

When the Ancestral Puebloan People, popularly known as the Anasazi, Left their magnificent pueblos in Chaco Canyon and throughout New...

Native American Skies: The View from Down Under

Last Sunday we watched the very popular new show, Cosmos, which is a remake of the famous Carl Sagan series from the 1980’s. In this...

Native American Skies: Perceiving Spring

Twice a year, a day comes along where the length of daylight equals the length of darkness. Today we call that day the “equinox”. We...

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