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Wild Food and Cuisine with Reyna Banteah and Katrina Blair
Wild-food and cultivated plants are found everywhere on the globe alongside human civilizations. They follow our footsteps impeccably, as humans create niches for them to grow through disturbance and careful cultivation. In return, they provide the life force needed to do our work, while we enjoy taste sensations of creative cuisine.
This presentation offers perspectives from two women who are passionate about sustainable food pathways in both pristine environments and in our backyards. We explore the ethics of gathering, learn about essential nutrients, and how cuisine with wild foods boosts our vitality, provides our medicine, and feeds our souls.
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Native American Flutes of North America with Marlon Magdalena
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Flutes found in the Americas, and more specifically the flutes of North America, have been in use for thousands of years. There are many types of flutes that were developed by the Indigenous people of America. The modern standardized flute known as the “Native American Flute” has caused some confusion about what a Native American Flute really is. This presentation will discuss the history, cons...
National Mustang Association of Colorado
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The National Mustang Association of Colorado (NMACO) is committed to preserving and protecting horses in the wild and promoting conscious and humane management of wild horses. The advocacy of NMACO was essential in the successful management of the Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area (HMA) for over 20 years in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Currently, NMACO has been ...
Impacts to Diné Activities with the San Juan River after the Gold King Mine Spill with Dr. Chief
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On August 5th, 2015, 3 million gallons of acid mine drainage was accidentally discharged from the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado into Cement Creek, which is a tributary of the Animas and San Juan Rivers. The government-initiated risk assessment only assessed a recreational scenario (i.e. hiker drinking from the river), failing to recognize the deep connection of the Diné (Navajo) with ...
Listening Seriously for O’odham Heritage with Dr. Brett Hill
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In this talk, Dr. Hill will discuss his insights into the value of considering Native perspectives on heritage. Archaeologists have historically either ignored Native American perspectives on their own past or granted them alternative status irreconcilable with scientific archaeology. In his research on the ‘mysterious disappearance’ of the Hohokam, Dr. Hill has been struck by how much recent a...
The Haynie Site and the San Juan Basin Cotton Mystery with Susie Smith
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One of the more fascinating archaeobotanical stories from the central Colorado Plateau and the San Juan Basin is the rare evidence of cotton textiles and spinning tools, but the absence of botanical remains, that could prove people were farming cotton. Fragments of cotton cloth and worked fiber are especially visible in the well-documented records from Chaco Canyon Great Houses and north of Cha...
Current Research on Fremont Farming Communities in Far Northwestern Colorado with Dr. Jason LaBelle
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In this presentation, Dr. Jason LaBelle provides an overview of his lab’s ongoing work on Fremont farming communities located along the base of Blue Mountain, situated between the Yampa and White River valleys of southwestern Moffat County, Colorado. He will discuss results from excavation (5MF379, 5MF607, 5MF835), pedestrian survey, radiocarbon dating, repository collections work, and photogra...
Ethnogenesis of Apachean and Puebloan Communities on the High Plains with Dr. Matthew Hill
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Nearly 120 years ago, researchers identified a most unusual find for western Kansas: a seven-room masonry pueblo. This discovery led to repeated archaeological excavations of this site (Scott County Pueblo) and other nearby related sites. The available information suggests these localities were occupied by migrants from the Rio Grande Pueblos who lived alongside Indigenous Apache (Ndee) groups ...
Native American Life at Mission Santa Clara de Asis Rancheria with Dr. James Potter
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Recent excavations at the rancheria at Mission Santa Clara in California have produced abundant data on the life of Native Americans in the context of missionization from A.D. 1790 to 1840. This unique dataset provides rare insight into the lifeways of Native Californians at the mission not represented in historical documents, particularly the persistence of some traditional practices. In this ...
Climate History & Indigenous Futures: Climate Adaptation for Contested Landscapes with Dr. Schneider
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This presentation considers how narratives of ecological damage-particularly those associated with climate change-have been used to constrain, contest, and erase Indigenous land relationships and tribal sovereignty. Yet, in the last few decades there has been a surge of interest in Indigenous environmental knowledges, particularly for its relevance in developing climate adaptation strategies. T...
Recent and Continuing Research on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with Dr. Terry Hunt
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Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has long fascinated researchers and visitors alike. Famous for its nearly 1,000 megalithic statues (moai), the island has been portrayed as a case of ecological suicide and cultural collapse. Part of this narrative of failure involves the making and transport of the giant moai. However, detailed field research over the past two decades has changed our understanding dram...
Leaving Traces: Fairy Houses, Kindness Stones, and Constructed Heritage
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This event was made possible by the Four Corners Lecture Series. Anyone who spends a lot of time on public lands in the U.S. is likely to encounter traces intentionally left by modern visitors, such as rock cairns, painted “kindness stones,” or even fairy houses. For some people, including most park managers, these traces are a violation of the Leave No Trace ethic. But, others find them charmi...
Aztec Archaeological Sites in Mexico with Dr Michael Smith
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This talk will be a virtual tour of Aztec archaeological sites in central Mexico. Aztec villages were not greatly different from many sites in the Southwestern U.S. Aztec cities, on the other hand, were much larger than most Southwestern sites and had a series of monumental civic buildings. These structures-including temple-pyramids, ballcourts, palaces, and formal plazas-illustrate how settlem...
Lakeview Community Viewshed
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Viewshed of the Lakeview Community from the Haynie site, an Ancestral Puebloan community in southwest Colorado.
Indian Scouts & the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars w/ Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
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This talk explores the question: How has the U.S.-Mexico border become a militarized war zone replete with virtual walls and surveillance? Rather than consider the migrant threat as key to this question, Felicity goes back to the Southwest Indian wars to consider how the control of Apache fugitives structured the development of military innovations in surveillance. While Indian scouts were dubb...
Feathered Serpents and Pole Climbing Clowns with Dr. Randall McGuire
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Feathered Serpents and Pole Climbing Clowns with Dr. Randall McGuire
Environmental Justice at the Moral Terrains of Environmental Heritage with Dr Robert Figueroa
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Environmental Justice at the Moral Terrains of Environmental Heritage with Dr Robert Figueroa
Artist Talk with Anna Tsouhlarakis
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Artist Talk with Anna Tsouhlarakis
Diné Being & Seeing through Storytelling with Rapheal Begay
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Diné Being & Seeing through Storytelling with Rapheal Begay
Why Corrugated Cooking Pots with Dr Chris Pierce
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Why Corrugated Cooking Pots with Dr Chris Pierce
2023 Crow Canyon Recap
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2023 Crow Canyon Recap
40th Anniversary Logo Creation with Nate Francis
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40th Anniversary Logo Creation with Nate Francis
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors and Other Proverbs from the Pleistocene with Dr. Todd Surovell
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors and Other Proverbs from the Pleistocene with Dr. Todd Surovell
Inscribed Indigenous Wisdom: Interpreting Rock Art through Indigenous Women’s Perspectives & Voices
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Inscribed Indigenous Wisdom: Interpreting Rock Art through Indigenous Women’s Perspectives & Voices
Return Migrations with Lyle Balenquah, Nate Francis, Ritchie Sahneyah, and Autry Lomahongva
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Return Migrations with Lyle Balenquah, Nate Francis, Ritchie Sahneyah, and Autry Lomahongva
Return Migrations - Film Only
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Return Migrations - Film Only
Turquoise Mafia: The Story with Elvira Nowlin
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Turquoise Mafia: The Story with Elvira Nowlin
Return Migrations Trailer
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Return Migrations Trailer
Conceptualizing the Past: The Thoughtful Engagement of Hearts and Minds
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Conceptualizing the Past: The Thoughtful Engagement of Hearts and Minds
Transilient Acts: Managing Change in the Ancestral Pueblo World with Dr. Mike Adler
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Transilient Acts: Managing Change in the Ancestral Pueblo World with Dr. Mike Adler

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  • @redtobertshateshandles
    @redtobertshateshandles 27 днів тому

    If you wanted to enter or exit with a bow or atlatl, this would be a great design. It doesn't weaken the structure as much as a huge door. Easier to block off with two pieces and allows you to fire over the top. These ex spurts talk too much.

  • @robhead22
    @robhead22 Місяць тому

    A great presentation!! Thank you!

  • @sarahantin2106
    @sarahantin2106 Місяць тому

    I'm watching this on a day when, in reading Craig Childs' HOUSE OF RAIN, I came to a page on which he recounts his reconnection with Susan Ryan. With them, I am moving through the site that Susan was about to return to the earth!

  • @ElRayDelRio
    @ElRayDelRio Місяць тому

    Aho Yatehey! Tachankpee Hotanka 🐃🏞

  • @PeaceProfit
    @PeaceProfit Місяць тому

    Or... It’s a multifunctional practical design feature, which also held social, historical and/or spiritual meaning. It’s an opening with seats. By closing off the narrow bottom section the T shape serves as a window, when fully open it‘s a door which securely holds a ladder in place, allowing backpacks and pole mounted, shoulder carried balanced baskets, buckets and jars to be easily handed off during construction and for future ease of use for resupplying the structure without traversing a crowded interior. Also creates a practical solution for additional ventilation and in cliff dwellings the ability of lowering materials to all parts of the structure from above more effectively and safely. For defense it provides the perfect cross section of viewing and launching projectiles onto attacking forces, while also being an access and/or escape route, using rope ladders attached to a pole. Large exterior and interior T-Doors can provide seating and shade for guards, while constricting entrance. 🤷‍♂️ 👣🕊👽

  • @garybowler5946
    @garybowler5946 Місяць тому

    I can't quite accept archeology done by BYU, given their efforts to make the Book of Mormon real.

  • @robhead22
    @robhead22 2 місяці тому

    What a great presentation. Thank you!

  • @kellykelly7747
    @kellykelly7747 2 місяці тому

    A Navaho Elder on you tube says Chaco was not a good place. It was known as a place of tears. Many Dene people were enslaved and made to build these places. When they left this place, they smashed the pottery, etc.

  • @evelynlamoy8483
    @evelynlamoy8483 2 місяці тому

    I wonder if the shape provides greater air flow. It may have originated as less of a meaningful structure and more as a way to provide cooling breezes throughout the interior. They clearly took on a meaning of status with the impressive size of the larger T-Doors, but even those may have been to allow greater airflow into larger structures where it would diffuse through main halls, and rooms.

  • @brett-lothian
    @brett-lothian 3 місяці тому

    They remind me of the circular pit structures in front of the step pyramids of Caral in Peru, the oldest site of it's type in the Americas I believe.

  • @brett-lothian
    @brett-lothian 3 місяці тому

    They are also found in Peru, the Chachapoyas built very similar cliff dwellings with T shaped doors. Could be a connection. It would seem to me that the hole above the T doors could be to continue filling the granary above the door level perhaps. This short video is interesting ua-cam.com/video/wy62YOFpG7U/v-deo.html

  • @chesterfinecat7588
    @chesterfinecat7588 3 місяці тому

    Let kids and small dogs run free.

  • @aldavissghost9724
    @aldavissghost9724 4 місяці тому

    T shape is from the SW,we don’t know why, there seem in Mexico. It took an hour to say this

  • @jerryglasgow8862
    @jerryglasgow8862 4 місяці тому

    Does a 'T' door add anything to structural integrity helping to stabilize the construction?

  • @jerryglasgow8862
    @jerryglasgow8862 4 місяці тому

    Lekson describes some "T" doors as great big and big w/o saying just exactly how big. How about some actual dimensions?

  • @johnclark1612
    @johnclark1612 4 місяці тому

    COVID expedition

  • @marcsimard2723
    @marcsimard2723 4 місяці тому

    I wonder about the northern exposure for winter occupation Also, the odd shaped hearthe site might be an outdoor hearth Very normal to have an inside and outside fire space

  • @marcsimard2723
    @marcsimard2723 4 місяці тому

    It would be interesting to compare data from objects mapped at Must Farm with what T Surovel compiled in his work with the Durkha

  • @callen.6371
    @callen.6371 5 місяців тому

    Treck planner brought me here!

  • @Anthony-qg3qo
    @Anthony-qg3qo 5 місяців тому

    @ 45:57 they look like seats, you can sit at the entrance and have a chit chat

  • @jimhamman2335
    @jimhamman2335 5 місяців тому

    If the T-doors represent a serpent's head, perhaps the hole above them represents an egg, as it does at serpent mound. The "egg", BTW, represents the island of Aztlan, as this was its shape.

  • @JeffinBville
    @JeffinBville 5 місяців тому

    How about T-doors offer nothing more than a convenient place to sit?

  • @MikeBaxterABC
    @MikeBaxterABC 5 місяців тому

    My opinion T Shaped doors were first used as practice advantage. After all the purpose of adooris to "block out" .. the LESS surface area they need to block out the better! .. the bottom 2 and half feet of door space is normally only going t have 2 LEGS in it. Up higher you maybe carrying a basket of something, so more room is needed .. On the farm where I grew up my mom had a saying "Do not come in empty handed!" .. If nothing else there is always frewood to carriny in! :) .. I can easily imagine moms of the ancient Southwest had similar saying! :) <3

  • @contempl8ive
    @contempl8ive 5 місяців тому

    Trek Planner sent me!

  • @JMYaden
    @JMYaden 6 місяців тому

    Honour it and go beyond it ❤❤❤

  • @theaquaexpansionproject1111
    @theaquaexpansionproject1111 6 місяців тому

    These kivas were used for water storage

  • @loril.mangold8160
    @loril.mangold8160 7 місяців тому

    Is the "T" A SLOT for the pole, with the stairs cut into it, or is the "T" representative for Tatonka ?

  • @jeffbybee5207
    @jeffbybee5207 7 місяців тому

    A suggestion the speaker seems to have his face full size about half the time and does not leave the slides up long enough It's best when the slides are full size but most of the time WWE have the gentleman taking 40% of the screen. Best wished and thankyou for videos

    • @jeffbybee5207
      @jeffbybee5207 7 місяців тому

      And he frequently is pointing out things of intrest on slides after he has turned the illustration off

  • @lbrowning2543
    @lbrowning2543 7 місяців тому

    Megalithic T-structures are found in a huge circle at Gobekli Tepe in Anatolia, T-structures are also found in Peru, Egypt and Israel. Ovens in the shape of a T portray some female entity/Goddess in the Balkans. The solid T's almost always have a dot in the upper middle of the “T”. It has been hypothesized to represent a stylized birth canal, with the growing embryo/seed at the top.

  • @FacesintheStone
    @FacesintheStone 7 місяців тому

    Love the Crow Canyon archaeological center. I haven’t seen this one yet. I hope some of you awesome people from the West Coast will come help us out on the East Coast. We’re just destroying all kinds of stuff here.

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 7 місяців тому

      32:05 top left you can see the eyehole and the face. The carved faces on the stones- first I would look for the birds because those are easier to see. Before paper, books, stone was the media for storing media. At first, I showed the archaeologist what look like just rocks, and then I found of the most defined ones and they still deny it-perhaps you could advise?

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 7 місяців тому

      33:39 the emblems in red are what I see here in North Carolina as well. They are tribal emblems, and are not a type of animal or anything. It’s like a letter.

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 7 місяців тому

      What I’m here to tell you is that there is a complicated, multi facet style of art within the stones that goes unrecognized until you study for three or four weeks. The way to learn it is complete immersion, keep them all on your kitchen counter, and in your common areas.

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 7 місяців тому

      37:29 this guy knows, you know. Do you know how in India that I have that blue God with six arms? It doesn’t have six arms, those are only the poses of the dance. This is so frustrating trying to share ancient indigenous art- We should’ve recognized it a very long time ago. If you know, then we have to teach other people. There’s no possible way that some people just are so dense that they cannot understand or learn this. It’s about making people care. Things like the fish with the bear, figuring out the puzzles. That is what it’s going to get the public attention. Keep doing this!!! I love it 41:21 I use the Dstretch on my phone. It’s incredible.

    • @FacesintheStone
      @FacesintheStone 7 місяців тому

      44:22 sorry last comment! This is great, and I’m really enjoying the video. you will find that the petroglyphs are painted on top of the older carvings. People used to stand on the side of these mountains and sand them down to create an image. Later people came around and respected the site unlike us. They put their own art on top of the old art. I want you to be able to see the old art. It is the key to understanding human consciousness.

  • @ILLIBROMETRAGGIO
    @ILLIBROMETRAGGIO 7 місяців тому

    accurate. deep. Interesting. Thanks to my research on Coronado Expedition I came here and literally "drank it all down to the details". Great lesson. thanks from Italy.

  • @user-so8lw9cx9u
    @user-so8lw9cx9u 8 місяців тому

    Enigma ulteriore la presenza di porte a T in Italia.

  • @TheHypnotstCollector
    @TheHypnotstCollector 8 місяців тому

    The art piece with the red blouse, I have her in a glazed ceramic piece, sitting, neck and head straight, looking up. ("Woman in Pink Blouse", Albq NM)about 12'" square..... Sits with my other pieces of 4 corners type pottery, arrowheads, Mesa Verde cups ....

  • @StanKindly
    @StanKindly 9 місяців тому

    Could it be these "roads" were actually vectors modeling some sort of 3 dimensional geometry?

  • @joearchuleta7538
    @joearchuleta7538 9 місяців тому

    If your a Chief, you have a very big headdress full of feathers, how are you going to get thru the door it is not shaped like a T

  • @daddynkoos6715
    @daddynkoos6715 9 місяців тому

    HeY! Sook Knee! lol So beautiful.

  • @simritnam612
    @simritnam612 9 місяців тому

    Subterranean house cool in hot summer And warm in cold winter. Fairly simple. Year-round work in outdoor workshops, Man cave & She shed, etc

  • @user-bt1qe2ik5h
    @user-bt1qe2ik5h 9 місяців тому

    I'm 63 years old. I was raised in a hogan. I slept on a sheep skin and ran early dawn. I ate rabbit, prairie dogs and commodity food. I went to boarding school. The only time we come home was on Christmas vacation and school out. Life wasn't easy.

  • @babaloo42
    @babaloo42 10 місяців тому

    Their birds could sit on the T door ledges and greet visitors.

  • @adammillwardart7831
    @adammillwardart7831 10 місяців тому

    "Qui va" means "who goes" in French. As in "Who goes there?" As in - the people who went there, "qui va", were the members of the secret societies. The history of the French has been largely erased by the British and other cultures. But place names and words in a lot of Native languages (all over the world actually...) trace back to French and Spanish. "Nez Perce" tribe in Canada - Nez Perce means "Pierced Nose". "Dene" means "of the nose". I'm not sure if it refers to actual nose piercings, or if their "perfume" and bug repellant etc... offended the noses of Europeans, and the words refer to how they could smell them and their villages.

  • @genenovak2717
    @genenovak2717 11 місяців тому

    Brilliant analysis

  • @jeffbybee5207
    @jeffbybee5207 11 місяців тому

    Over 12 minutes for program to start

  • @wesb123
    @wesb123 11 місяців тому

    Amazing video thanks for sharing!

  • @davidhlnda
    @davidhlnda 11 місяців тому

    What only five responses? Lesson is an iconoclast, really shook up the staid world of Archeology, a scientist whose voice I respect and agree with. Esp as regards trade, power, and communication lines w Meso American city states. I read him while tramping thru Bears Ears, wonderful to read his insights while the starts shown down thru the Pondos upon me.

  • @vondahartsock-oneil3343
    @vondahartsock-oneil3343 11 місяців тому

    But the " T" shape door or window is found all around the world in antiquity.

  • @paulwiggins183
    @paulwiggins183 11 місяців тому

    This is not archaeology. This is white people buying stuff.

  • @vondahartsock-oneil3343
    @vondahartsock-oneil3343 Рік тому

    Those are not all roads. More like paths towards the Holy Mountains. They have so many I forget them all now. 4-7 is the usual, as they are sacred numbers. They did not consider the mountains homes for the gods. Mt. Graham is a Holy Mtn. b/c it's where the hero twins killed the monsters and flung them against the mountain where they died.

  • @vondahartsock-oneil3343
    @vondahartsock-oneil3343 Рік тому

    You never enter a building/home/hogon etc...directly. You walk around it clockwise, and when you get to the entrance, you announce yourself and ask permission to enter. When you exit, you exit right to complete the clockwise circle. It is also taboo to block the door. Only a rug can be hung over it. This is so The Holy People can enter. Usually this is during a idk..prayer session, a talk with the Holy People etc...Whatever they are gathered together for, there is a specific sand drawing for it. It's funny but not these days. The elder men will go in and then anyone remember the pattern for this or that? Sometimes the Holy People will help, give advice etc...but often they don't and you find out later, they did answer. It's the same as with praying to GOD. It's all the same, just diff. terms and methods. WORLDWIDE. I can tell you one thing. You will NEVER get the full TRUTH out of the Dineh. There's a reason for that. At Chaco for sure, the Parks Dept. will NOT ALLOW the truth to be told as to what happened there. This is direct from a Dineh Navajo 3rd generation medicine man and storyteller Dr. Don Mose Jr. Also, Most, especially the young, In Dineh it means "Those who do things different", NOT ANCIENT ENEMY. Anasazi came from the south. They can't be ancestors. The Dineh themselves, in oral tradition ..consistently says they came from the EAST. always from the east. There's a whole story about the journey. Maybe ages ago they came from the Alaska region, after and only after traveling across Canada, down the east coast and back across the central USA. They say they saw the big river and cross it, came to a sea of grass for as far as one could see. They passed many diff. peoples, but all similar to them in their beliefs and ways. THey made camp at the edge of the plains in the panhandle of Tx. Oklahoma and SW Kansas. Sent scouts out. When the scouts returned, they packed up and continued their journey west to their "forever home" THey used those roads for travel, trade and had outposts with water stored for those coming along who need it. They were also for the Holy People. The 4 directions are a sacred thing. Every ceremony starts with an offering of corn pollen or meal, in every direction but East. The Holy People are from the east. The Sun rise. All doors align to the east to face the first rays of life giving sun. They did not worship the sun tho. Why you won't ever get the truth(multiple reasons, betrayal is one), is b/c many, if not most Dineh, don't even know their own language or how to use it properly. The words mean something and each word can have diff. meanings, depending on how they are used. LIKE...ANASAZI was the name given to those people, by the Dineh when the Dineh arrived. The Dineh lived within the Anasazi lands for 1k yrs. Dr. Mose has 2k yrs of Oral Tradition for not only his people the Dineh, but also the last 1k yrs of the "Anasazi" who in the end "lost their way" as he says. It was the Anasazi who called the Dineh "Navajo", it means Field people or people of the field b/c they worked the fields obviously. IT IS THE ZUNI language that Anasazi means Ancient Ones. Maybe that was the Hopi language. I don't have my notes right here of course. The Dineh would never go near Chaco, They called it The House of Crying. The "Anasazi" were violent, not peaceful. The practiced sorcery, mocked the gods, were SLAVE TRADERS/HOLDERS. People came from other tribes, to become Dineh. Who were a peaceful people. War was always a last resort. Violence of any kind could get you removed from the tribe and many did have to go off on their own and according to him, prob joined other groups with rule they could live by. The Dineh are a mixed tribe. Not pure Dineh is what I mean. SOme are, many aren't. Their clans came from the CLiff Dwellers and Anasazi who fled the madness at Chaco. The Cannibalism didn't begin until the last few hundred yrs of the Anasazi's existence. While many survived and just fled to the cliffs and mountains, built structures up in the cliffs to hide their food and selves b/c the Anasazi constantly raided their food stores. No one around, like the Anasazi. They were considered evil people. There is no MYSTERY about CHACO, YOU JUST DONT KNOW THE TRUTH. Thank THe Parks Dept. or your GOV. The Gambler, I know a story about that. The Gambler showed up at Chaco, and quickly they became addicted to gambling. So much so that they began to offer up their wives and children. Well they captured several Dineh. A young man went to the Anasazi wanting to gamble for his people back, or they get him if he loses. Well of course he wins and brings his ppl back. He is forever a hero in Dineh legends. The Betrayal: I believe it was The Hopi who allowed a man from the Smithsonian to film one of their sacred ceremonies. The agreement was that he would not make it public, publish it etc...well HE DID and they found out. From then on, tribal folk say there is some knowledge we will not tell. You see what happens. It gets twisted and looked at from modern mans view of the world. They think they know our history better than us. They can take our lives, language, customs and ways, but they can never take what's stored in your head. THis is why ORAL TRADITION IS IMPORTANT. It's not a game of telephone either. Just like you know the lyrics to thousands of songs. Oral tradition is the same. It's always done in the form of song/chant. It starts with a young child who shows great memory. They daily they are taught, for their entire lives. Even one of the elderly Dineh Historians says they old people choose what to share with him. He is elderly lol. Yet considers these ppl as the elders. So even he doesn't have all the knowledge of the Dineh. He holds the "official" story the gov. allows to be heard about the Navajo. Not what their true history is. Also, the good Dr. says the spiral petroglyph represents a portal. This is where I have to stop. I can not share the rest of the story. It's very Biblical in nature. It's all in the book "On the Path of the Immortals" by Dr. Thomas Horn. You want talk of Giants, cannibalism, Nephilim. The roads confused the demons, ya know...which way did they go

  • @ben8405
    @ben8405 Рік тому

    When enemies came to rade and steal, the people would Be able to shoot arrows with more room to move left or right. Raid. Not rade.

  • @vondahartsock-oneil3343
    @vondahartsock-oneil3343 Рік тому

    Golden Rule. Teachings by The Holy People for tribes of the SW : Never COVER THE/A DOOR/DOORWAY. There is also the symbolism of the bottom of the "Tau" represents the underworld. I'd go with the Holy Peoples Teaching to never cover the door. You can hang a woven blanket, but the opening will remain at the bottom, allowing for fresh air in and out. Always enter from a clockwise direction, exiting to your right to complete the circle. Also the people do not say they create something. The 5 fingered earth being can not create. Only the one TRUE Creator can. The people MAKE. They make kiva's, make sweat lodges etc...Example: We can make more humans, but we can not create one out of this air. They do not believe in something from nothing except by the creator of all things.