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Andy B
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|  Posted 05-09-2006 at 13:41
Question for one of our North American experts:
Do you think this Pueblo qualifies to be added to the Portal? The recently opened interpretation centre seems to be quite a major tourist attraction so I would have thought so?
Could you work out an approximate long/lat and post it with the 'Add a new site' form. Then we can add the news of the re-opening and place it in its proper context on the map.
New Mexico tribe opens a new gateway to its storied pueblo
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/15442430.htm
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bat400
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| Posted 05-09-2006 at 17:23
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On 2006-09-05 13:41, Andy B wrote:
Do you think this Pueblo qualifies to be added to the Portal? The recently opened interpretation centre seems to be quite a major tourist attraction so I would have thought so?
Could you work out an approximate long/lat and post it with the 'Add a new site' form. Then we can add the news of the re-opening and place it in its proper context on the map.
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Yes. Although these settlement sites are still being used in the modern age, several of the south western pueblos are ancient villages. Homes are constantly maintained or rebuilt, but from photos I've seen, the general effect highlights traditional building and arrangement of the homes on the mesa.
I've never been to Acoma, but the combination cultural resource and tourist attraction seems a happy medium to serve the residents and visitors.
I've got the location. I'll enter it.
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Andy B
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| Posted 05-09-2006 at 23:19
Added - cheers
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James
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| Posted 06-09-2006 at 16:57
Greetings!
The Acoma still speak their Native language, and reside in the same areas used around 2000 years ago-I found out by living on the res, and doing some intense hikes.
There are ruins that few, if any, outsiders have seen-sherds and other artifacts are common, but in this Living Tradition there is no excavation or other disturbing of the " Ancestors Places ".
I worked at my Potter friends home in McCartys doing remodel, and took hikes on the weekends. The sherds I found were ground up, and added to the new clay as temper-very interesting to realise that inside each new piece, are the remains of very old pottery.
The doors of the Pit-Houses I found behind McCartys face East, and that was a telling point to my friends, who decided that the ruins were of their Clann-the RoadRunner Clann.
I was also fortunate to do remodel on the Clann Home in Sky City, on the Mesa-also fortunate that I had grown up in an Adobe in California, so drilling into mud walls was no surprise.
Sky City is indeed, a Portal to the Past-Good choice!
Yours in the Light /!\-James
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