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Taos Pueblo
- 4 Dec 2011
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- 03December11 Ancient National Historic Landmark Native American New Mexico Taos Pueblo World Heritage Site architecture
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"Taos Pueblo is the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark. The multi-storied adobe buildings have been continuously inhabited for over 1000 years."

"Although the Taos Pueblo is open to the public and has been studied extensively, much of the history of the Pueblo remains a mystery. According to Taos Indian custom, oral history is not divulged outside of the community, which has kept many of the secrets of the Taos Pueblo safe within the minds of the Taos Indians who still live there.

Despite the lack of an accurate record, most anthropologists place a settlement in the Taos Valley at 1000 CE, and the Taos Pueblo between 1000-1450 CE. Since that time, the sun-dried structure has continuously housed Taos Indians, and 150 people live there today full-time. Since it was built, the Pueblo has always been a residential complex, filled with multiple residences, connected by wall but not by door or window."

via atlasobscura.com
Bighorn Medicine Wheel
- 3 Dec 2011
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- 02December11 Medicine Wheels Native American Wyoming
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Journey to the Medicine Wheel, by Howard Terpning ®

The Medicine Wheel and the Four Directions

"A mysterious pattern of stones sits at the summit of Medicine Mountain, nearly 10,000 feet above the Bighorn Range in Wyoming. Covered by heavy snows for most of the year, the stone configuration reveals itself and its purpose only in the summer months.

The stones are arranged in the shape of a wheel, 80 feet across and with 28 spokes emanating from a central cairn. The cairn, a ring-shaped pile of rocks, is large enough to sit in and is surrounded by six others that lie along the wheel’s circumference."

more via atlasobscura.com
Chan Chan
- 10 Nov 2011
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- 09November11 Cities Incas Native American Peru World Heritage Site archaeology
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"The largest Pre-Columbian city in South America, Chan Chan is an archaeological site located in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, five km west of Trujillo. Chan Chan covers an area of approximately 20 km² and had a dense urban center of about 6km². Chan Chan was constructed by the Chimor (the kingdom of the Chimú), a late intermediate period civilization which grew out of the remnants of the Moche civilization. The vast adobe city of Chan Chan was built by the Chimu around AD 850 and lasted until its conquest by the Inca Empire in AD 1470. It was the imperial capital of the Chimor until it was conquered in the 15th century. It is estimated that around 30,000 people lived in the city of Chan Chan.

Chan Chan was added as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986."

via en.wikipedia.org
Counting by the Winters
- 31 Oct 2011
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- 30October11 Historical Native American Pictorial Winter art
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Winter Count Robe detail via the website of Douglas Stebila

Counting by Winters
Winter counts are histories or calendars in which events are recorded by pictures, with one picture for each year.
The Lakota call them waniyetu wowapi.
Waniyetu is the word for year, which is measured from first snowfall to first snowfall. It is often translated as 'a winter.'
Wowapi means anything that is marked on a flat surface and can be read or counted, such as a book, a letter, or a drawing.

Winter counts are physical records that were used in conjunction with a more extensive oral history. Each year was named for an event and the pictures referring to the year names served as a reference source that could be consulted regarding the order of the years. People knew the name of the year in which other important events occurred, and could place these in time by referring to the winter count.

via Lakota Winter Counts Online Exhibit
Arikara Medicine Ceremony -The Ducks
- 6 Oct 2011
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- 05October11 Historical Native American photography
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Museum of Photographic Arts Collections

Artist: Edward Sheriff Curtis (1908 photogravure)

"In previous centuries, the Arikara were a semi-nomadic people who lived on the Great Plains of the United States of America for several hundred years. They lived primarily in earth lodges during the sedentary seasons. They created portable tipis as temporary shelter while traveling from their villages, or on seasonal bison hunts. They were primarily an agricultural society, whose women cultivated varieties of corn (or maize). The crop was such an important staple of their society that it was referred to as "Mother Corn".
Traditionally an Arikara family owned 30-40 dogs. The people used them for hunting and as sentries, but most importantly for transportation, before Plains tribes adopted the horse. Many of the Plains tribes had shared the use of the travois, a transportation device to be pulled by dogs. It consisted of two long poles attached by a harness at the dog's shoulders, with the butt ends dragging behind the animal; midway, a ladder-like frame, or a hoop made of plaited thongs, was stretched between the poles; it held loads that might exceed 60 pounds. Women used dog-pulled travois to haul firewood or infants. These were also used for meat transport during the seasonal hunts; a single dog could pull a quarter of a bison."

via flickr.com
A Hesquiat Maiden
- 17 Sep 2011
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- 16September11 Historical Native American Photographs
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1915 photogravure by Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 - 1952)

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Arikara Medicine Ceremony -The Ducks
- 9 Aug 2011
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- 08August11 Historical Native American photography
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Artist : Edward Sheriff Curtis 1868 - 1952
Creation Date: 1908 Process : photogravure

via flickr.com
The Spirit Houses of Eklutna
- 6 Aug 2011
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- 05August11 Alaska Cemetery Historical Native American religion
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Spirit Houses

The Native village of Eklutna has a fascinating old cemetery, still in use, in which each grave is enclosed by a highly decorated spirit house the size of a large dollhouse.

The interior of Alaska is home to the Athabaskan Native Peoples. Specific to the Eklutna area are the Danaina or Tanaina, Athabaskans. These colorful spirit houses are a uniquely Athabaskan tradition ; according to cultural beliefs. Spirit houses were built by the family after the person’s death. A wonderful and unique mix of this native tradition with the practices and beliefs of Orthodox Christianity can be seen in the cemetery. The graves of the Athabaskan people are marked not only with their traditional spirit houses, but also with an Orthodox Christian Cross. There are also graves marked only with crosses, honoring the resting places of the Orthodox non- native members of the church.

via eklutnahistoricalpark.org
Village of the Dead : The Anjikuni Mystery
- 5 Aug 2011
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- 04August11 Canada Disappearances Legends Mysteries Native American
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Over 30 men, women and children vanished without a trace from an Inuit fishing village in the first half of the 20th Century.

"Labelle methodically pulled back the caribou skin flaps and checked all of the shacks hoping to find telltale signs of a mass exodus, but, much to his chagrin, he discovered that all of the huts were stocked with the kinds of foodstuff and weapons that would never have been abandoned by their owners. In one shelter he found a pot of stewed caribou that had grown moldy and a child’s half-mended sealskin coat that lay discarded on a bunk with a bone needle still embedded in it as if someone had deserted their effort in mid-stitch."

read much more via mysteriousuniverse.org
Native American with horse pulling travois
- 15 Jul 2011
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- 14July11 Historical Native American photography
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Artist: Richard Throssel
Artist Bio: American, 1882 - 1933
Creation Date: c. 1910
Process: gelatin silver print

via flickr.com
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