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Travel->New Mexico: Chaco and Mesa Verde: Southwest parks with similar history but different visitor experiences
Posted on Sunday, April 06 @ 17:33:26 PDT (349 reads)

AUTHOR: Carey Quan Gelernter and Jerry Large

Mesa Verde National Park, in Colorado's southwest corner, offers visitors a look at the life of the Ancestral Pueblo people. The park is home to 600 cliff dwellings, where Ancestral Puebloans lived for more than 700 years.

Chaco's main draw is Pueblo Bonito, one of the most extensively excavated and studied sites in North America. Center of the Chacoan world and occupied from the mid-800s to 1200s, it was a four-story masonry "great house" with more than 600 rooms and 40 kivas.

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Museums->New York: A salute to Native baseball players
Posted on Thursday, April 03 @ 23:08:32 PST (286 reads)

The Iroquois Indian Museum will present "Baseball's League of Nations: A Tribute to Native American Baseball Players," opening in April and running through December 2008.

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Travel->Arizona: Yavapai Nation offers cultural tour of tribal lands
Posted on Tuesday, November 27 @ 15:49:33 PST (874 reads)

The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation is offering a cultural heritage tour through tribal lands.

Called "The Yavapai Experience," the tour is being offered through one of the nation's commercial ventures, Fort McDowell Adventures.

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Travel->South Dakota: Mt. Rushmore vs. Crazy Horse Memorial
Posted on Monday, August 13 @ 21:34:48 PDT (1481 reads)

AUTHOR: Christopher Reynolds

In South Dakota's Black Hills, two men carved their dreams into the granite. Mt. Rushmore honors four presidents, while Crazy Horse celebrates a Sioux warrior.

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Travel->Arizona: 70 foot Skywalk at Grand Canyon will open to public on March 28
Posted on Monday, March 26 @ 09:45:38 PST (2660 reads)

The Hualapai Tribe owns a remote corner of the Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona known as Grand Canyon West. It partnered with Las Vegas entrepreneur David Jin about three years ago to build a $40 million dollar glass and steel observation deck that extends 70 feet past the rim of the great Grand Canyon.

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Travel->Colorado: Tribal park set to offer guided tours through ruins on Ute Mountain this summer
Posted on Sunday, March 04 @ 19:25:38 PST (3489 reads)

Visitors at the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park, located south of Cortez, have a chance to see a rare location this summer — but spots on the limited tours are filling up quickly.

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Travel->New Mexico: A visit to Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico is a sacred journey
Posted on Tuesday, February 20 @ 12:06:19 PST (2730 reads)

AUTHOR: Catherine Watson

The ancient pueblo of Acoma is aptly nicknamed. Known as the Sky City, it commands the most exotic location of any inhabited place in the United States — the top of a 370-foot-high mesa in New Mexico, a natural citadel of golden rock, an island in the sky.

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Travel->New Mexico: Old ones' spirit still palpable at Bandelier National Monument
Posted on Sunday, May 07 @ 17:22:46 PDT (4130 reads)

Bandelier National Monument's 90th birthday is a triumph of history, preservation.

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Travel->Arizona: Experience the Grand Canyon with the Hualapai Nation
Posted on Wednesday, August 24 @ 07:42:25 PDT (10469 reads)

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Where: Grand Canyon, AZ -- The Hualapai Tribe is sharing their private land with visitors from around the world, so guests can join them in experiencing its uniqueness and untouched beauty.

Grand Canyon West, a destination offering breathtaking panoramic experiences at the Grand Canyon's western rim, is in the phase of building its latest attractions including The Skywalk glass bridge, The Indian Village and The Hualapai Ranch.

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Travel Reviews: Top 10 drives in Indian Country
Posted on Thursday, June 02 @ 00:14:44 PDT (6430 reads)

AUTHOR: Richard Nilsen, The Arizona Republic

If you're like most people, chances are good that what you see in your mind when you picture the West are the mesas and canyons of Arizona's Indian Country.

On the roads of the Hopi and Navajo reservations in the northeastern corner of the state, you discover the rosy sandstone, mint-green sagebrush and the turquoise skies of American dreams.

But the reservations are more than the scenery, however spectacular.

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TNB->Hopi Tribe: Visiting the Three Mesas of the Hopi Reservation
Posted on Tuesday, November 30 @ 20:48:09 PST (19559 reads)

The Three Mesas of the Hopi Reservation.. KEYWORDS: Hopi travel guide hopi etiquette hopi ceremonies first mesa second mesa third mesa Hopi Reservation hopi visitor's guide travel tips visiting native american reservations hopi villages oldest continuously inhabited village in North America

The Hopi villages are divided into three areas called mesas. Here is a visitor's guide to the mesas which comprise the Hopi Reservation and some tips on travel accomodations and etiquette when visiting these areas.

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TNB->Crow Tribe: Festivities will honor Plenty Coups state park
Posted on Thursday, August 28 @ 08:42:51 PDT (6539 reads)

KEYWORDS: Chief Plenty Coups Montana state park Crow tribe crow leaders war chief Indian museums sacred medicine bundle bundles indian memorial peace park

AUTHOR: James Hagengruber, Gazette Staff Writer

"Today, I who have been called Chief of Chiefs, among red men, present to all the children of our Great White Father this land where the snows of many winters have fallen on my tepee. This park is not to be a memorial to me, but to the Crow Nation. It is given as a token of my friendship for all people, both red and white."
-- Chief Plenty Coups during an Aug. 8, 1928, celebration marking his desire to set aside his land south of Billings as a park.

PRYOR -- If Chief Plenty Coups visited his home and farm today, he'd probably beam with pride.

After decades of neglect, the land the last traditional Crow leader set aside as a peace park is coming into its own, historians and tribal members say.

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Museums->Tennessee: Cherokee Tribal Council learns more about heritage at the Sequoyah Birthplace Mu
Posted on Tuesday, March 19 @ 01:27:37 PST (11960 reads)

Keywords: Sequoyah Birthplace Museum eastern band of cherokee indians Tennessee Indian museum Cherokee culture native american museums in TN Vonore Tenn Cherokee sites Chota Tanasi Fort Loudoun State Historic Area Tellico Lake Project Little Tennessee River Valley Overhill Cherokee Tuskegee cherokee history indian history

Author: Mia Rhodarmer, The Monroe County Advocate

VONORE - Members of the Cherokee Tribal Council visited Vonore Monday to learn more about their heritage on the Tennessee side of the mountains.

Council members spent the morning learning about the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

During the afternoon, they toured other local Cherokee sites including Chota, Tanasi and Fort Loudoun State Historic Area.

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Travel->North Dakota: In the footsteps of Lewis and Clark
Posted on Tuesday, March 12 @ 13:38:46 PST (6947 reads)

Author: Jodi Rave Lee, Lincoln Star Journal

"Down by the river, where the water flows cold and clear, I'll whisper sweet words to you, honey, words you want to hear."
-Hidatsa courting song

KNIFE RIVER INDIAN VILLAGES, N.D. - The renowned Mandan-Hidatsa flute player shared his people's songs and stories as listeners huddled around a glowing fire in the earth-covered lodge.

"A young lady might hear a song similar to this along the river," explained Keith Bear, as he began to play the flute, pausing midway to sing the words from a courtship song before ending the soulful melody with one last breath.

Bear, of the Three Affiliated Tribes, welcomes adventurers to the Knife River villages, a national historic site of the Hidatsa. Nearly 200 years ago, as Lewis and Clark made their landmark expedition to the Pacific Coast, they wintered in the five-village area of the Mandan and Hidatsa people.

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TNB->Cahuilla Indian: Hiking Canyon of Wonder and Superstition in Palm Springs
Posted on Monday, January 28 @ 12:13:05 PST (11499 reads)

Author: John McKinney

After a 30-year closure, the lovely canyon named after a banished Cahuilla shaman called Tahquitz has reopened on a limited basis to hikers in Palm Springs. Tribal rangers lead daily hikes through the storied canyon, which is two miles as the phainopepla flies southwest of downtown.

At the new Tahquitz Canyon Visitor Center, hikers are ushered into a screening room for the "Legend of Tahquitz Canyon" video, then led onto the trail. Groups wind past ancient rock art, diverse desert flora and sometimes wildlife, including the phainopepla, a small bluish-black bird of the Southwest. Another highlight is the 60-foot waterfall featured in Frank Capra's 1937 film "Lost Horizon," starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt.

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