Eleven tribes call the Grand Canyon home: Havasupai Tribe, Hopi Tribe, Hualapai Tribe, Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, Las Vegas Band of Paiute Indians, Moapa Band of Paiute Indians, Navajo Nation, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni, and the Yavapai Apache Nation. Each tribe has their own version […]
Been traveling lately through time and space—in a way that comes with birth and re-birth. Scientists, scholars, and such seek many of the same answers that I pursue unscientifically. Bottom line? No absolutes and I’ll go with my gut. Of all the common scenes depicted by petroglyphs worldwide, the birthing scenes are intriguing, especially in […]
I recently took advantage of a ‘Zoom’ presentation from the School for Advanced Research, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico re: Communicating Difficult Topics: Art, Aesthetics and Anthropology in Light in Dark Times. https://sarweb.org/ The two contributors, Alisse Waterston and Charlotte Corden, spoke about their recently published (University of Toronto Press) graphic novel ‘Light in […]
My interest in the titled list began with my feet. All of life’s pressures plus old physical, spiritual, and emotional aches, exacerbated by poor medical care, left me unable to walk without assistance. It took almost a year to wean myself off prescription drugs and look for integrative solutions. Meanwhile my feet were alternatively numb, […]
Per Wikipedia: There are over 21,000 petroglyphs at the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site at Three Rivers, New Mexico located midway between Tularosa and Carrizozo in Otero County Highway 54. Many of the petroglyphs can be easily viewed from a trail open to the public which winds through the rocks for about one mile. The petroglyphs […]
Right out of high school (1970) and I was on my way— backpacking the western states. My only regret at the time was that I couldn’t grab a ride to the Hopi reservation. I had a copy of the ‘Book of the Hopi’ by Frank Waters with “Drawings and source material recorded by Oswald White […]