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Pub. Date
©1997
Description
The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals thousands of archaeological sites, ancient homes of the ancestors of today's Southwest Indian peoples. Late in the nineteenth century, adventurous cowboy-archaeologists made the first forays into the canyons in search of the material remains of these prehistoric cultures. Rancher Richard Wetherill (best known as the "discoverer" of Mesa Verde's Cliff Palace) and his brothers; entrepreneurs...
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2017.
Description
"This book is a documentation of how Native people continue to persevere in this fight for the land and our culture. It is in our DNA; we cannot shake it. It is the road map we have and we trust it. And so we cobble together strategies to preserve and protect our communities and cultural heritage. These essays and interviews are a compendium of those strategies and the challenges Native people face at Bears Ears and across this country. I hope...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"Fremont is a culture first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the Fremont river drainage. Intially thought to be a simple sociopolitical system, recent reassessments of the Fremont (ca. 300-1300 A.D.) assume a more complex society. This volume places Fremont rock art in this contemporary context. Author Steven Simms offers an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview using the principles...
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"Native American cultures have flourished in the Four Corners region for thousands of years, from the early shamans, to the Anasazi, to historic tribes of today. Rock art images created by these cultures are diverse, mysterious, and haunting. Utah may contain more world-class, prehistoric rock art than any other region in North America. Rock overhangs with ghostly, painted, shamanistic figures have become synonymous with Utah." "Dennis Slifer has...
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