The Ancient Pueblo people, also known mistakenly as the Anasazi, were a prehistoric Native American culture located around the present day 'Four Corners' areas of the Southwest United States. This area encompasses the Colorado Plateau, and extends from central New Mexico to southern Nevada, Utah and Arizona. The topography of this panoramic region varies greatly, including high plateaus, vast horizontal mesas, sleep walled canyons, and sandstone windows and bridges sculpted by water erosion. In cliff areas with harder stone, rock overhangs formed and served as building sites for adobe dwellings often accessible only by rope or rock climbing. Numerous national parks and monuments such as Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, Sunset Crater and Chaco Canyon provide stunning scenery and a well-preserved window into the area's fascinating prehistoric past.Divided geographically, this expanded edition includes tips on visiting reservations, attending ceremonies, buying arts and crafts, and adjusting to 'Indian time'. The revised format provides easy reader access to a wealth of information, and includes dozens of new sites, selected places to stay, eat and shop, a calendar of various powwows and other tribal ceremonies, a section on language, points of interest, maps, and 16 pages of full colour photographs. This book also examines locations such as the Gila Cliff Dwellings Monument, the Taos Pueblo, and The Denver Art Museum, which houses an extensive collection of North American native art.
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Discover Native America: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is a travel guide to the Southwestern states with a focus on Native American points of interest. Tish Minear and Janet Limon provide an historical overview of the tribes that populated the region, highlighting their culture and language as well as a report on the current status of American Indians, including information on visiting reservations, attending ceremonies and buying native arts and crafts. Discover Native America focuses on specific geographic regions and the sites located in each. Some of the locations mentioned include the Gila Cliff Dwellings Monument, the Taos Pueblo, and The Denver Art Museum, which houses an extensive collection of North American native art. Several appendices offer further resources for the continued study of native culture, a list of reservations and a calendar of powwows and other tribal ceremonies. -- Midwest Book Review
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Discover Native America: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah I used Limon's and Minear's first book when traveling in the Southwest and found it very helpful. When I found their new book, I bought it immediately. As I started to browze through the book, I was caught up in the history and culture of Native Americans and found it hard to put down. They have done their research. I am looking forward to planning another trip throughout the Southwest using this new, colorful and captivating guide.
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A Gem of a Native American travel book,
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"Having traveled with one of the authors (Limon) I can vouch for the extreme care taken to be as accurate as humanly possible. In preparing this wonderful book, many conversations were held with Native Americans, using sensitivity and respect for their traditions. Besides having a handy reference for what events occur yearly in each of the 19 areas covered, you will come away with specifics such as what is appropriate behavior for visitors at a powwow and what are traditional words for "hello" in several languages. This book is a treasure of information, written by two women who love this land and have covered untold miles in the last three decades." Pat F.
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Travel guidebooks are essential to my wanderlust, and Discover Native America is a gem for those who want ideas about what to see and what to know. I'm sure the book with be well-worn from being my traveling companion, teacher, research source, and storyteller.
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