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Great Sites, Part 2: Tahlequah

visiting the Cherokee Judicial Museum and the old prison [Part 1], we drove up to Park hill to see the John Ross Museum [Video of Grand...

Great Sites, Part 1: Tahlequah

To get a good feel for Cherokee culture and history, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, is a great place to visit. It is located in the heart of...

Shavano Valley Petroglyphs, Part 5: Reading the Signs

Up until his death in 2000, LaVan Martineau devoted over forty years to unlocking the secrets behind the petroglyph (and pictograph)...

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...

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