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We Recommend

Discover Native America: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah by Tish Minear and Janet Limon is an informative travel guide covering Native America sites, culture, and history in the Four Corners states.

We also recommend the following resources for more information on some of the topics covered in this website.

Books

Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J. Deloria, University Press of Kansas, 2004

Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi)
           Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest edited by V.B. Price and Baker H. Morrow, University of New Mexico Press, 2008
            From This Earth by Stewart Peckham, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1990
           Mesa Verde National Park: Life Earth Sky by Susan Lamb, Sierra Press, 2006
           Mesa Verde: The Living Park by Lawrence Cheek, Mesa Verde Museum Association, 2007
           Southwestern Pottery - Anasazi to Zuni by Allan Hayes and John Blom, Northland Publishing, 1996

Geology
            Guide to the Geology of Mesa Verde National Park by Mary O. Griffitts, Mesa Verde Association
           MesaVerde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries by Duane A. Smith, University of Colorado Press, 1988
            Mesa Verde-the Story Behind the Scenery by Linda Martin, KC Publications, Inc., 2004

Nineteenth Century Explorers
            Gustaf Nordenskiold: Pioneer Archeologist of Mesa Verde by Gustaf Nordenskiold and Liz Bauer, Mesa Verde Museum Association

Mesa Verde National Park
Richard Wetherill: Anasazi by Frank McNitt, University of New Mexico Press, 1974

Ute Indians
Utes: The Mountain People by Jan Pettit, Johnson Books, 1990

Websites
Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi)
Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado
www.co.blm.gov/ahc/

Canyon of the Ancients in Southwestern Colorado
http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/nm/canm.html

Mesa Verde National Park
National Park Official Website
www.nps.gov/meve/

Lodging (Aramark)
www.visitmesaverde.com/index.cfm

Pueblo Indians
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.indianpueblo.org/

Richard Wetherill
The Anasazi Heritage Center is the facility that curates the Wetherill Family Archives
www.co.blm.gov/ahc/

The Wetherill family website
http://wetherillfamily.com/index.htm

Ute Indians
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, headquarters in Towaoc, Colorado
http://www.utemountainute.com/

Southern Ute Tribe, headquarters in Ignacio, Colorado
http://www.southern-ute.nsn.us/

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