Introduction

Bibliography

The following resources were consulted in the preparation of this chronology. They are listed by time period, cultural group, and/or topic to assist readers who wish to further explore the history of the Mesa Verde region.

(Internet resources may be accessed by clicking on the Web links provided. Crow Canyon is not responsible for the content or functionality of these Web sites.)

Paleoindian–Pueblo III Periods

Dixon, E. James
1999    Bones, Boats, and Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Lipe, William D., Mark D. Varien, and Richard H. Wilshusen (editors)
1999    Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Southern Colorado River Basin. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver.

Post-Pueblo–Historic Periods

Pueblo:
Architect of the Capitol
2008    Po′Pay. Available: http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/popay.cfm.

Gilpin, Dennis, Susan E. Perlman, Louise M. Senior, and Lynn A. Neal (preparers)
2002    Cultural Affiliation Study for Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Southwest Colorado. Two Rivers Consultants, Nashville, Tennessee, and SWCA Environmental Consultants, Flagstaff, Arizona. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado.

Sando, Joe S.
1979    The Pueblo Revolt. In Southwest, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 194–197. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1992    Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History. Clear Light Press, Santa Fe.

Simmons, Marc
1979    History of Pueblo-Spanish Relations to 1821. In Southwest, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 178–193. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Wilson, Gordon P. (with contributions by Leslie Cohen, Carole Gardner, Stu Patterson, and Chris Turnbow)
2007    Guide to Ceramic Identification: Northern Rio Grande Valley and Galisteo Basin to AD 1700. Technical Series Bulletin, no. 12. 2nd ed. Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe.

Ute:
Callaway, Donald, Joel Janetski, and Omer C. Stewart
1986    Ute. In Great Basin, edited by Warren L. D'Azevedo, pp. 336–367. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 11. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Ellis, Richard N.
1996    The Utes.
Available: http://www.mountainstudies.org/DataBank/History/UteHistory.htm.

2000    The Ute Indians in Southern Colorado Since 1850. In Ute Indian Arts and Culture from Prehistory to the New Millennium, edited by William Wroth, pp. 73–87. Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Goss, James A.
2000    Traditional Cosmology, Ecology and Language of the Ute Indians. In Ute Indian Arts and Culture from Prehistory to the New Millennium, edited by William Wroth, pp. 27–52. Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Greubel, Rand A.
1999    The Spatial Organization of Activities at Two Ute Sites in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Loosle, Byron, and Michelle Knoll
2003    Fremont Numic Traditions. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Estes Park, Colorado.
Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/ashley/heritage/publications/
numic-transitions.pdf
.

McPherson, Robert S., and Mary Jane Yazzie
2008    The White Mesa Utes. In Utah's Native Americans.
Available: http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/
the_history_of_utahs_american_indians/chapter6.html
.

Reed, Alan D., and Michael D. Metcalf
1999    Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Northern Colorado River Basin. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver.

Southern Ute Indian Tribe
2008    Official Web site of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe.
Available: http://www.southern-ute.nsn.us.

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
2008    Official Web site of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
Available: http://www.utemountainute.com.

Wroth, William
2000    Ute Civilization in Prehistory and the Spanish Colonial Period. In Ute Indian Arts and Culture from Prehistory to the New Millennium, edited by William Wroth, pp. 53–72. Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Navajo:
Adams, William Y.
1963    Shonto: A Study in the Role of the Trader in a Modern Navaho Community. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, no. 188. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Brugge, David M.
1983    Navajo Prehistory and History to 1850. In Southwest, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 489–501. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 10. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Bureau of Land Management
n.d.      Of Stone and Stories: Pueblitos of Dinétah.
Available: http://www.nm.blm.gov/features/dinetah/dinetah_splash.html.

Dice, Michael, and Leslie M. Sesler
2002    Site LA72746. In Archaeological Investigations in the Fruitland Project Area: Late Archaic, Basketmaker, Pueblo I, and Navajo Sites in Northwestern New Mexico, Volume IV: The Early Navajo Sites, Parts I and II: The Dinétah Phase Sites, compiled by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler, pp. 35–94. La Plata Archaeological Consultants Research Papers, no. 4. La Plata Archaeological Consultants, Dolores, Colorado.

Froeschauer-Nelson, Peggy
1998    Cultural Landscape Report: Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Ganado, Arizona. Cultural Resources Selections, no. 14. Intermountain Region, National Park Service, Santa Fe.

Gill, Sam D.
1983    Navajo Views of Their Origin. In Southwest, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 502–505. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 10. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Gunnerson, James H.
1979    Southern Athapaskan Archeology. In Southwest, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 162–169. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Hovezak, Timothy D., and Leslie M. Sesler
2002    Patterns in Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Early Historic Architecture in New Mexico's Upper San Juan Basin. In Archaeological Investigations in the Fruitland Project Area: Late Archaic, Basketmaker, Pueblo I, and Navajo Sites in Northwestern New Mexico, Volume V: Material Culture, Bioarchaeological and Special Studies, compiled by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler, pp. 265–306. La Plata Archaeological Consultants Research Papers, no. 4. La Plata Archaeological Consultants, Dolores, Colorado.

Hovezak, Timothy D., and Leslie M. Sesler
2002    Prehistoric and Protohistoric Lithic Technologies in the Fruitland Study Area. In Archaeological Investigations in the Fruitland Project Area: Late Archaic, Basketmaker, Pueblo I, and Navajo Sites in Northwestern New Mexico, Volume V: Material Culture, Bioarchaeological and Special Studies, compiled by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler, pp. 49–185. La Plata Archaeological Consultants Research Papers, no. 4. La Plata Archaeological Consultants, Dolores, Colorado.

Legends of America
2008    Native American Legends: Navajo Long Walk to the Bosque Redondo.
Available: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NA-NavajoLongWalk.html.

Roessel, Robert A., Jr.
1983    Navajo History, 1850–1923. In Southwest, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 506–523. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 10. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Senator Jeff Bingaman's official Web site
2008    Navajo Code Talkers.
Available: http://www.bingaman.senate.gov/features/codetalkers/.

Sesler, Leslie M., Timothy D. Hovezak, and Richard H. Wilshusen
2000    Cultural Landscape of Dinétah: The Navajo Occupation of Frances Mesa. In Frances Mesa Alternative Treatment Project, compiled by Richard H. Wilshusen, Timothy D. Hovezak, and Leslie M. Sesler, pp. 159–253. La Plata Archaeological Consultants Research Papers, no. 3, vol. I. La Plata Archaeological Consultants, Dolores, Colorado.

Towner, Ronald H.
1996    The Pueblito Phenomenon: A New Perspective on Post-Revolt Navajo Culture. In The Archaeology of Navajo Origins, edited by Ronald H. Towner, pp. 149–170. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Towner, Ronald H., and Jeffrey S. Dean
1992    LA 2298: The Oldest Pueblito Revisited. Kiva 57:315–329.

Spanish:
Arce, Antonio
2006    Dominquez and Escalante Expedition Year 1776. Uintah Basin Teaching American History. Available: http://www.uintahbasintah.org/jdandemain.htm.

McDonald, Jarom (editor)
n.d.      Diario y Derrotero: The Itinerary and Diary of Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante. Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Early Americas Digital Archive.
Available: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/gateway/dominguez.php.

Old Spanish Trail Association
2007    Web site of the Old Spanish Trail Association.
Available: http://www.oldspanishtrail.org/.

Warner, Ted J. (editor)
1976    The Dominguez-Escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776. Translated by Fray Angelico Chavez. Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah.

Other Peoples of European Descent:
Horn, Jonathan C.
2004    Landscape-Level History of the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Montezuma and Dolores Counties, Colorado. Alpine Archaeological Consultants. Available: http://www.blm.gov/heritage/adventures/research/StatePages/
PDFs/Colorado/Studies/Ancients%20Report.pdf
.

Background Information and Information About Multiple Cultural Groups:
Archuleta, Margaret L., Brenda J. Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima (editors)
2000    Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879–2000. Heard Museum, Phoenix.

Arizona State University
2007    Bibliography of Indian Boarding Schools: Approximately 1875 to 1940. Available: http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/boardingschools.htm.

Dykeman Roebuck Archaeology
2008    Southwestern Cultures.
Available: http://www.drarchaeology.com/swarchaeology.htm.

Native American Public Telecommunications
2006    Indian Boarding Schools. Indian Country Diaries series.
Available: http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/boarding.html.

Washburn, Wilcomb E. (editor)
1988    History of Indian-White Relations. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 4. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Today

Overview:
Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute
2008    American Indian Law.
Available: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/American_Indian_law.

Demographic Information:
City-data.com
2008    Available: http://www.city-data.com/.

Colorado State Demography Office
2008    Colorado State Demography Web site.
Available: http://www.dola.state.co.us/demog.

ePodunk
2007    ePodunk Web site. Available: http://www.epodunk.com/.

Farmington Chamber of Commerce
2008    Farmington New Mexico Demographics.
Available: http://www.gofarmington.com/demographics/.

La Plata Economic Development Action Partnership
2008    La Plata County Government.
Available: http://www.laplatacountycolorado.org/government/.

New Mexico Tourism Department
2008    Pueblos, Tribes, Nations.
Available: http://www.newmexico.org/native_america/pueblos/index.php.

U.S. Census Bureau
2008    State and County Quick Facts.
Available: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html.

American Indian Web Sites:
Pueblo
Acoma Pueblo, http://www.skycity.com

Cochiti Pueblo, http://www.pueblodecochiti.org

Hopi, http://www.nau.edu/~hcpo-p

Isleta Pueblo, http://www.isletapueblo.com

Jemez Pueblo, http://www.jemezpueblo.org

Picuris Pueblo, http://www.picurispueblo.net

Pojoaque Pueblo, http://www.poehcenter.com

Sandia Pueblo, http://www.sandiapueblo.nsn.us

Santa Ana Pueblo, http://www.santaana.org

Taos Pueblo, http://www.taospueblo.com

Zuni Pueblo, http://www.ashiwi.org

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, http://www.indianpueblo.org (this Web site provides information about all 19 New Mexico pueblos)

Ute
Southern Ute, http://www.southern-ute.nsn.us

Ute Mountain Ute, http://www.utemountainute.com

Navajo
Navajo, http://www.navajo.org