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Pub. Date
©1984
Description
Nowhere in North America did pre-Columbian culture reach a more spectacular expression than at Chaco Canyon in the desert of what is now northwestern New Mexico. There, nine centuries ago, flourished a society that built monumental stone towns, great kivas, and an extensive network of roads leading to distant communities.
83) Mesa Verde
Author
Series
National park novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Two Colorado cowboys searching for strayed cattle during a harsh snow storm discover the remains of an ancient city built into the side of a huge cliff. It is the ruined city of the Anasazi Indians, a civilization lost for over a thousand years. This is the story of how Mesa Verde, the cliff city, came to be. It is 400 A.D. at the Animus river Valley in what is now Northwestern New Mexico, and Echata, the leader of the Raven Clan, was concerned for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.
97) Life in a pueblo
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Photographs and text explore how pueblos were built and the daily lives of the people who lived in these communal adobe dwellings, including their spiritual beliefs.
Author
Series
Wild Mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Jamaica Wild, a resource-protection agent for the Bureau of Land Management, fails to save Jerome Santana from being trampled by a herd of buffalo. In fact, the leadership of the Tanoah Pueblo in New Mexico blames her for starting the stampede, not to mention the fact that she was on Pueblo land during Quiet Time, when visitors aren't allowed. Jamaica's investigation to prove Santana's death was murder--freeing her from culpability--leads to an exciting...