Discover Native America : Arizona Colorado New Mexico and Utah Book

The Ancestral Puebloan people, also known as the Anasazi, were a prehistoric Native American culture located around the present day 'Four Corners' areas of the Southwest United States. This area encompasses the entire states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. The topography of this panoramic region varies greatly, including high plateaus, vast horizontal mesas, steep-walled canyons, and sandstone windows and bridges sculpted by water erosion. Numerous national parks and monuments such as Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, Sunset Crater and Chaco Canyon provide stunning scenery and a well-preserved window into the area's fascinating prehistoric past. Divided geographically, this expanded edition includes tips on visiting reservations, attending ceremonies, and buying arts and crafts. The revised format provides easy reader access to a wealth of information, and includes dozens of new sites, selected places to stay, eat and shop, a calendar of various powwows and other tribal ceremonies, a section on language, points of interest, maps, and 16 pages of full colour photographs. This book also examines locations such as the Gila Cliff Dwellings Monument, the Taos Pueblo, and The Denver Art Museum, which houses an extensive collection of North American native art.