Introduction

Illustration Credits

Title Page

Photo collage; select image for credit:

Folsom point

Hopi woman grinding corn

Dyeing wool for Navajo rugs

Spanish morion (helmet)

Ute girls at Bear Dance

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Mesa Verde under stormy sky

Photo by Joyce Kramer

Introduction

Mesa Verde archaeological region

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Aerial view of canyon and vegetation

Photo by Dan Mooney; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Sleeping Ute Mountain and sage plain

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Paleoindian Period

Possible migration routes from Siberia to North America

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; source of information on possible routes: Figures 2.4 and 2.5 in Bones, Boats, and Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America, by E. James Dixon, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1999

Paleoindian hunters

Courtesy Mesa Verde National Park

Mammoth

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Folsom point

Bureau of Land Management photograph at http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/CRM/heritage_education/history_mystery/
hm2/stone_points.html

Archaic Period

Archaic camp

Courtesy Mesa Verde National Park

Deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and rabbit

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Archaic brush shelter (artist's reconstruction)

Adapted, with permission, from Figure A.1 in Windows Into the Past: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's Guide for Teachers, edited by M. Elaine Davis and Marjorie R. Connolly, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 2000

Archaic brush shelter remains

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basin metate and one-hand mano

Pen-and-ink drawing by Carole Graham; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Archaic hunting equipment: atlatl, spear, dart

Atlatl: copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Atlatl, spear, dart: pen-and-ink drawing by Lew Matis; adapted, with permission, from Figure A.2 in Windows Into the Past: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's Guide for Teachers, edited by M. Elaine Davis and Marjorie R. Connolly, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 2000

Split-twig figurine of deer

Pen-and-ink drawing by Paul Ermigiotti; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basketmaker II Period

Blue corn

Drawing by Paul Ermigiotti; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Corn and squash

Photo by Sam Fee; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and rabbit

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Basketmaker II pithouse

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Coiled basket

Edge of the Cedars Museum collection; photo by Sam Fee; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Sandal

Edge of the Cedars Museum collection; photo by Sam Fee; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Trough metate and two-hand mano

Pen-and-ink drawing by Carole Graham; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pendant and beads on fiber cordage

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basketmaker III Period

Basketmaker III settlement pattern

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Beans

Photo by Sam Fee; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Corn, beans, and squash

Photo by Sam Fee; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basketmaker III pithouse

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basketmaker III farmstead

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basketmaker III plain gray ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Basketmaker III white ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Bow and arrow

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo I Period

Late Pueblo I settlement pattern

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo I farmstead

Courtesy Mesa Verde National Park

Turkey

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo I village

Adapted from Figure 1.8 in McPhee Community Cluster Introduction, by Allen E. Kane (in Dolores Archaeological Program: Anasazi Communities at Dolores: McPhee Village, edited by Allen E. Kane and Christine K. Robinson, pp. 2–59, Bureau of Reclamation, Engineering and Research Center, Denver, 1988)

Pueblo I pithouse (cross section)

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lew Matis; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo I pithouse (map)

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Neckbanded gray ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo I white ware painted designs

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo I projectile point

Pen-and-ink drawing by Carole Graham; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo II Period

Late Pueblo II settlement pattern

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Checkdam

Photo by Sara Kelly; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo II farmstead

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lew Matis; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Kiva interior

Pen-and-ink drawing by Jane Baigent; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo II projectile points

Pen-and-ink drawing by Carole Graham; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Corrugated gray ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo II white ware painted designs

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo III Period

Pueblo III cliff dwelling

Courtesy Mesa Verde National Park

Corn, beans, and squash

Photo by Sam Fee; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Checkdam

Photo by Sara Kelly; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Early Pueblo III farmstead

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Sand Canyon Pueblo

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Spruce Tree House and Square Tower House at Mesa Verde National Park

Courtesy Mesa Verde National Park

Pueblo III white ware vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Metate bins with slab metates and two-hand manos

Photo by Sam Fee; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo III axe

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Post-Pueblo Period

Overview:

Ancestral Pueblo, Ute, and Navajo migrations

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Today’s pueblos

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo:

Post–A.D. 1300 pueblo in the Rio Grande valley: Arroyo Hondo

Reprinted with modifications, by permission, from Figure 2 in The Past Climate of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, Reconstructed from Tree Rings, by Martin R. Rose, Jeffrey S. Dean, and William P. Robinson; copyright © 1983 by the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Pueblo glaze ware pottery vessel

Courtesy Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico (MIAC catalog no. 43893/11)

Ute:

Ute wickiup, artist's reconstruction (left) and archaeological remains (right)

Left: Adapted, with permission, from Figure A.1 in Windows Into the Past: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's Guide for Teachers, edited by M. Elaine Davis and Marjorie R. Connolly, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 2000
Right: Adapted, with permission, from "The Spatial Organization of Activities at Two Ute Sites in the Southern Rocky Mountains," by Rand A. Greubel, Alpine Archaeological Consultants; paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, October 1999

Ute pottery sherds

U.S. Forest Service photograph at http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/ashley/heritage/publications/numic-transitions.pdf (Figure 2 in "Fremont Numic Traditions," by Byron Loosle and Michelle Knoll; paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Estes Park, Colorado, September 2003)

Ute projectile point

Photo by Jonathan Till; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Navajo:

Four sacred mountains of the Dinétah

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Map of forked-pole hogan

Adapted, with permission, from Figure 3.9 in Site LA72746, by Michael Dice and Leslie M. Sesler (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, 2002) (map by Neal Morris)

Navajo pueblito

Photo by Leslie Sesler

Navajo projectile point

Borrowed, with permission, from Figure 2.67 in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Lithic Technologies in the Fruitland Study Area, by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler (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, 2002)

Navajo pottery sherds

Photo by Jonathan Till

Spanish:

Dominguez-Escalante Expedition of 1776

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; source of information on route: Dominguez and Escalante Expedition Year 1776; Uintah Basin Teaching American History at http://www.uintahbasintah.org/jdandemain.htm

Spanish morion (helmet)

Courtesy Museum of the American West, Autry National Center; 88.127.33

Spanish colonial chest from New Mexico

Courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 065701

Historic Period

Overview:

Ute and Navajo population movements

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo:

Walpi Pueblo

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Bortell, X-30818

Hopi woman grinding corn

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Charles A. Nast, X-30779

Zuni man weaving on loom

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30906

Potter Maria Martinez

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30273

Albuquerque Indian School

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Continent Stereoscopic Company, Z-3671

Ute:

Ute camp

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30353

Towaoc Agency

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30657

Ute horsemen, brush shelter, teepee

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, H. S. Poley, P-81

Utes on horseback, Sleeping Ute Mountain in background

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30681

Ute children at boarding school

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30667

Beaded cradleboard

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, H. S. Poley, P-392

Beaded buckskin

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, H. S. Poley, P-563

Bear Dance

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30596

Navajo:

Forked-pole hogan

Borrowed, with permission, Figure 4.17 in Patterns in Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Early Historic Architecture in New Mexico's Upper San Juan Basin, by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler (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, 2002) (photo by Leslie Sesler)

Circular masonry hogan

Used by permission of Fort Lewis College, Center of Southwest Studies, Southwest Colorado General Photograph Collection, SWP 001 IV-02-10

S. E. Day's Indian Trading Post

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Ben Wittick, X-32604

Dyeing wool for Navajo rugs

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Frashers Fotos, X-33177

Weaving a rug on a loom

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Jesse L. Nusbaum, N-338

Navajo silversmith

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, William M. Pennington, X-33039

Students at Methodist Indian Mission

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, H. S. Poley, P-1421

Navajo captives, Bosque Redondo

United States Army Signal Corps, courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 028534

Spanish:

Hesperus Peak along the Old Spanish Trail

Photo by Bill Proud

Other Peoples of European Descent:

Members of the 1871 Hayden Expedition

Copyright Colorado Historical Society (F-12188), all rights reserved

Narrow gauge train

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Otto C. Perry, OP-7854

Main Street, Cortez, Colorado, circa 1900–1920

Copyright Colorado Historical Society (Denver and Rio Grande Collection, CHS.X5324), all rights reserved

Stagecoaches

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Louis Charles McClure (William Henry Jackson), MCC-2869

Making camp

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-21030

Woman in doorway of farmhouse

Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Thomas Michael McKee, Z-1368

Today

Overview:

Mesa Verde region today, with locations of American Indian reservations

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Montezuma County in the Mesa Verde region

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo:

Today's pueblos

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Hopi man and woman

Photo by Karen R. Adams

Hopi pottery vessel

Photo by Jeanne Fitzsimmons; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo dancer

Photo by Wendy Mimiaga; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo visitor to ancient site in Mesa Verde region

Photo by Victoria Atkins, courtesy Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado

Ute:

Ute Mountain Casino

Photo by Rebecca Hammond

Tractor in field

Photo by Paul Evans

Man and woman at Bear Dance

Photo by Wendy Mimiaga

Ute girls at Bear Dance

Photo by Wendy Mimiaga

Ute potter

Photo by Rebecca Hammond

Canteen vessel

Photo by Rebecca Hammond

Dish with teepee design

Photo by Rebecca Hammond

Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Complex

Photo by Rebecca Hammond

Navajo:

Navajo woman selling rugs and jewelry

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Navajo Code Talkers

Photo by Donovan Quintero; copyright Navajo Times

Navajo woman making and selling jewelry

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Contemporary Navajo pottery vessel

Photo by Jeanne Fitzsimmons; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Navajo students at Crow Canyon

Photo by Ginnie Dunlop; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Peoples of European Descent:

Main Street, Cortez, 2008

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Farmers market

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Fountain in park

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Bean warehouse

Photo by Grant Coffey; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Cortez Recreation Center

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center