Domestic Travel Adventures

Discover the majestic landscapes and rich cultural heritage of the American Southwest. These premier domestic travel adventures offer the very best, including privileged access, top scholars, and limited group sizes. Crow Canyon’s trips are professionally developed to ensure both a quality educational experience and a relaxed, collegial, and fun atmosphere. View the full Travel Catalog (PDF) online.

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2009 Archaeology and Cultural Tours

Chaco Canyon: Archaeology and Navajo Connections

The sweeping desert and sandstone canyons of Chaco Canyon have been home to people for millennia. Although archaeological evidence indicates that the great houses and great kivas of Chaco were built by the ancestors of today’s Pueblo people centuries before the arrival of the Navajo in the Southwest, the Navajo themselves have a different view. During this exploration of the enigmatic Chaco civilization, we join archaeologist Dr. Gwinn Vivian and Navajo archaeologist Richard Begay to debate the question, who were the early inhabitants of Chaco Canyon?

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May 10–16, 2009
Tuition: Donor* $1,895; Nondonor: $2,020

Hopi Kachinas: History and Artistry

For centuries, the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona have practiced a belief system of harmonious balance between humans and the cosmos. At the center of this belief lies the kachina tradition. With renowned archaeologist Dr. E. Charles Adams, we examine the history of Hopi kachina imagery in rock art, pottery, and kiva murals, and its transition from a teaching tool into secular fine art.

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June 15–22, 2009
Tuition: Donor* $2,395; Nondonor: $2,520

Woven Containers: A Navajo Basket-Weaving Workshop

Navajo ceremonial baskets reflect the rich traditions of the Diné (Navajo) culture—every aspect of a basket, including color and design, conveys meaning about the artist’s world. The same legends and origin stories that are woven into the daily life of the Navajo people are often represented in their baskets. Under the guidance of Sally and Lorraine Black, two of the most innovative Navajo basket weavers alive today, we learn the step-by-step process of making Navajo-style baskets.

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July 12–18, 2009
Tuition: Donor* $1,695; Nondonor: $1,820

Threads of Time: Navajo, Pueblo, and Hispanic Textiles in the Rio Grande Valley

Contemporary Southwest weaving is the culmination of hundreds of years of cross-cultural interaction and aesthetic development. From the elaborately woven cotton, turkey feather, and yucca textiles of ancient Pueblo weavers to the work of independent artists today, weaving in the Southwest has emerged as an art form that interprets tradition and innovation in new and exciting ways. With anthropologist Dr. Kathleen Whitaker, we look at the artistic, historic, sacred, and economic value of textile arts in the Southwest.

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July 19–26, 2009
Tuition: Donor* $2,595; Nondonor: $2,720

A Journey with Kabotie & Lekson: Transcendence of Ideas Through Time and Culture

Join Hopi artist Michael Kabotie and archaeologist Steve Lekson as we journey to culturally significant sites in the Four Corners region and confront perplexing questions regarding movement across the landscape and the connectivity of cultures and ideas. Through their different but complementary perspectives, these two remarkable scholars explore the past and present in an ongoing dialogue, demonstrating that archaeologists and artists can be colleagues—fellow travelers on a creative journey to explore the human spirit.

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September 20–26, 2009
Tuition: Donor* $2,595; Nondonor: $2,720

Archaeology of Cedar Mesa: Hiking in Southeastern Utah

Cedar Mesa offers a unique combination of historical, geological, archaeological, and biological resources unlike those seen in any other place in the Southwest. Within the mesa’s deep, sinuous canyons and pinyon and juniper forests, archaeological sites offer visitors clues to the daily life of the ancestral Pueblo Indians who once thrived here. Guided by scholars Jonathan Till and Winston Hurst, we hike to cliff dwellings, rock art, natural arches, and hoodoos, and examine the differences and similarities between sites on this western frontier of the ancestral Pueblo Indian homeland and those in the central Mesa Verde region.

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October 4–10, 2009
Tuition: Donor* $1,895; Nondonor: $2,020

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