Gathering of Nations 2010
This gentleman is a celebrant in period regalia from the Gathering of Nations PowWow held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 22 – 24, 2010. The Gathering of Nations is the world’s largest PowWow. To see more photos like this, visit the Blue Mesa Photography Facebook page. While you are there, become a fan!
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Mesa Verde National Park
The Trail of the Ancients is a national scenic byway that takes travelers through four states and across millenia to visit ancient sites of pre-colombian splendor and mystery that were built upon and made one with the austere landscape of the southwest plains and the near vertical escarpments of the San Juan Mountains and the Colorado Plateau. Of the many exciting and beautiful locations along the trail, Mesa Verde, with its 4,000 total archaeological sites and 600 cliff dwellings, may rightly be considered the jewel in the crown. To see more Mesa Verde photos, GO HERE.
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Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
The Grand Circle is the designation for a highway loop that takes drivers on a grand tour of national parklands, cliff dwellings and other relics of the ancients, and the spectacular scenery that makes the landscape of the american southwest so immediately identifiable. The route runs for approximately 1200 miles and encompasses Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Monument Valley Tribal Park and the Grand Canyon. Slight detours can take travelers to Sedona, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, Canyon de Chelly and Hovenweep national monuments in Arizona, and and Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas.
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The Ghost Ranch was a favorite hangout of leading American artists and writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. It was made famous by Georgia O’Keefe, whose painting entitled “Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills” now serves as the icon for the Ghost Ranch and undoubtedly inspired the placement of this skull atop a shaman’s pole near one of the conference centers that was in use by Lynn V. Andrews . To see more Ghost Ranch Photos, go here!
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