Southwest Archaeology Today for August 31, 2005

Archaeology making the news – a service of the Center for Desert Archaeology.

– Ute Mountain PowWow Native Americans gather to celebrate their heritage: The team’s singing, gourd-shaking and drum-pounding grew in volume and intensity while a team member crossed and gyrated his arms with fists clinched, trying to unsettle the competition.
http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/05/news050830_2.htm
or
http://tinyurl.com/a3qg3

– Indigenous Geography as discipline arrives: There is an Indigenous Geography in the making – a new approach to land consciousness involving map reading and map-making that is leading to the establishment of an encompassing, innovative and pragmatic new discipline.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096409838

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