While the mission of the National Park Service is to preserve and protect our nation’s natural and cultural resources for future generations, this doesn’t mean that the methods of preservation are stagnant. Over the past decade, park staff at Mesa Verde National Park have taken steps to tell a more accurate, truthful, and equitable story of the people who once lived on this landscape.
Read MoreThe Ancestral Pueblo people would have been busy preparing for the upcoming growing season, but not all people with sacred connections to Mesa Verde were farmers.
Read MoreThe Ancestral Pueblo people would have been busy preparing for the upcoming growing season, but not all people with sacred connections to Mesa Verde were farmers.
Read MoreIn this final episode of season four, we're going to talk about the myth that first drew European descendant people to these desert canyons just a few centuries ago - where did the people of Mesa Verde go? Why did they move on? And, why is this myth that they vanished from their ancestral homelands so damaging to descendant communities today?
Read MoreIn this episode, we're talking about how the Ancestral Pueblo people came to be in the Southwest, and how Indigenous and European ways of learning and knowing about the past can complement each other.
Read MoreFancy sandals and specialization.
Read MoreThe spiritual connection to land, sky, and culture.
Read MoreThe trade of color and a modern-day pochteca.
Read MoreTrade for a silent prayer.
Read MoreWhat do three pieces of 1000-year-old pottery from the desert of Chaco Canyon have in common with the rainforests of Mexico?
Read MoreFrom the 1940s until the 1970s, one of the most well-known exhibits in Mesa Verde's museum contained a human body - the mummified remains of a young woman known as Esther.
Read MoreDidn't they disappear or something?
Read MoreMesa Verde Voices is a production of the Mesa Verde Association and Mesa Verde National Park.
