Fantastic is not a big enough word for the information and care in this video. I am always planning my dream trip and this was an excellent resource. Thank you.
Dr. Lekson has theories about why they left. The tribes don't like to share their "Ancestral Knowledge" with outsiders. Its frustrating. The Hopi are different- they claim to have scientific proof they lived there for 400,000 years.
I think you are mistaken there. Hopi said they were migrating and all tribes are descended from Hopi who stopped migrating. Ute &:Mayan have same count of years 22, 919 years since American continents arose from under ocean.
My beloved grandfather worked and retired from Ft. Union. He specialized in adobe making & and repairs. He was called to Bents Fort to help restore the adobe walls. I really enjoyed this video. My grandfather was a great man. He was part Navajo and Spanish. He was a ww2 Army Veteran 💜 received a purple 💜. I was very blessed to have a wonderful grandfather. Thank you for your brilliant video. 👏.
Yes, I have the best memories of my grandfather and grandmother. My great grandmother's as well. Natives of New Mexico. I had great childhood memories of my family. Now I live in the beautiful state of Washington. I do travel to New Mexico and Colorado to visit the family. My grandfather passed away in 95. Again I will say that your channel is very brilliant 👏. Bless you always sir. 🙏
Thanks again for the kind comment. FYI- if you havent been to Frenchman's Coolie or Dry falls in WA I did a couple of quickie videos with drone footage on those interesting places. Those vids aren't to the standard of my longer videos but if you've never been to them its a brief introduction. Nick on the Rocks does it better.
Thank you for telling us about your wonderful grandfather. His generation were the best. Men like him are rare now. Both my grandfathers and my father and two uncles were in WWI and WW11. I am 82 and live in Montana. Most of my people have long ago passed on. It's lonely.
@marjoriegarner5369 You are very welcome. I think Montana is so beautiful and not too far away from Central Washington . I have traveled through Montana on I-90. So beautiful. Today I had the pleasure of seeing beautiful Robin birds 🐦 spring is here. I wish you a blessed day and year.
Also lived in Los Alamos. Forgot how lucky I was to explore the area and live in history for so long. Used to love to camp through New Mexico. Looks different, really wish it was not so “improved”.
24:00.. so..they transported trees, rocks, from miles away.. how.. & then,they went north to get away from opression,, then south..?.. how do they get specific dates. this lady is saying, the weather has gone from mild, farming, to desert, in less than 1k.. ??..@@TheWestisBig
Outstanding video. I can't imagine the effort and time it took to create this wonderful video. Thank you for this incredible glimpse into this area of the country, my favorite place.
I just visited the 4-corners for the first time 2 weeks ago. Wish I had seen this video before the trip. Excellent job of showing off the area. I can't wait to get back there to do more in-depth exploring. Nice Job on this tour! 👋👋👋
That is truly an interesting site. I agree with you that the final and controversial panel is an unfinished depiction of a warrior with a severed head. Thank you Andrew!
Not close to done this yet, but the discussion on the ancient pueblos got me thinking back to my visits to Wupatki. It actually makes a lot of sense that the large structure with the Mesoamerican ball court would be a palace served by all the little outlying farmhouses. Interesting... Thanks for the thought-provoking content as well as the travel information!
The similarities can’t be a coincidence. I haven’t been to Wupatki or Casa Grande yet. hopefully this year. Search steve lekson he’s a professor at U of colorado. he’s pushing the mesaAmerican connection
think about this.. its gone from farming, to desert, in less than 1k.. i think there dates are for wrong.. pottery, proves nothing.. you cant date stone..
Excellent. My brother has a home in the Jemez area so we have been there once. Would love to go back but we are getting close to 80 and can travel so your excellent video is it for us in this life.
To quote the comedian, Eddie Izzard: "We've found this, and carbon dated it to last Tuesday, so we're very excited." "What have we got?" And they always find in archaeology, a series of small walls. Every time, a series of small walls. Everywhere you go. "We found a series of small walls, we're very excited. "We think this proves that they had walls in olden days. "They were very small. A series of small-walled people." And then someone, very learned with glasses, says, "The King and Queen entertained here, courtiers and soldiers in this room. And elephants dancing hopscotch over there. Mad fiddler in this room, playing the banjo. Viaducts and aqueducts..." And you watch going, "You're making this up, mate." You just point at a series of small walls and say, "Tutankhamen played banjo in there." The idea that a people could build something like Chaco Canyon or Mesa Verde without writing or mathematics is absurd. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If they were influenced by the people south of there in what is now Mexico, those people did have writing and did understand mathematics. They had a great grasp on astronomy too. I'd dare say most of the stuff they say about these places isn't even true. They're just making stuff up LOL And the ranger at Mesa Verde saying how great it would be to witness one of their ceremonies - oh really? You sure about that since we don't know what they were doing? - it's verboten nowadays but my mother-in-law was there in the 1950s and was told there was evidence of cannibalism, and when I studied archaeology in college a long time ago now, it was well known then. That's why these places were abandoned - war and cannibalism. There's plenty of evidence of it, and there have been academic papers written more recently trying to handwave it away because some people find it uncomfortable. At any rate, can't wait to see them myself. We're going to several of these sites in late summer this year. Thanks for the video.
It is well known that there was an intricate road system, with watch/signal towers for quick communication, from Chaco down into Mexico. Feathers of a parrot only found somewhere between Mexico and Brazil have been found to reinforce this existence of trade. Many ancient sites at and around Chaco have astronomical alignments. None of this is "hidden". Who is telling you otherwise?
Chaco looks so different, hoping people care for all the lands, animals and ruins. There used to be some brush and small trees, sorry they have been lost.
Loved this video, with so much detail to each site! I had the opportunity to visit most of these sites in 2022 when I worked as a travel nurse in the four corners region. I was absolutely enchanted with the area and can’t wait to get back there to explore more. The entire region is a feast for the senses!
This is a great video! I've watched several of yours but you've done a spectacular job in putting together a great guide. Really appreciate your footage from Hovenweep and Canyon of the Ancients. We've spend a little time in each but it's so overlooked. There's a richness that we struggle to appreciate an understand.
Thanks- I’ve been to Farmington many times. it’s close to so many interesting places. i’m hoping there’s enough Media work there to move there- maybe near the college.
Thank you so much for posting and sharing this wonderful production!! So well done, and so informative. I learned so much. Thank you, thank you!!👍👍👍 I'd love to visit someday....
Really cool. I enjoyed watching your video very much. It definitely makes me wish I was your age again. Ha! Back then I did a lot of exploring but I didn't have a camera or drone. We have some old Polaroid pictures, but need I say more ;) Thank you for sharing and keep enjoying this wonderful country.
Like your videos, your attitude and the trips you've recorded. Feel like you've been there before as you read things around you narrated them like a book called someones diary, or bible. Endless Exploration
You survived the trip through Albuquerque? That's astounding! As a resident at one time, or maybe even now, I can tell you there's a massive lack of driving competence and a whole lot of ego diving instead of driving using one's brain. I was followed for 35 minutes once by a road-rager who would not stop until I led him/us into a police station. No cops around of course, but he finally gave up. The typical drivers do not use turn signals for anything at any time. They roll right through stop signs and red lights on purpose. Speed limit? No such thing. There is very little traffic enforcement, so they know there are nearly zero consequences for anything they do. All this is complicated by texting and driving, and the relatively recent legalization of a popular mind altering substance. If you have your window down, you can smell it billowing out of cars. Again, almost zero traffic enforcement. One example: My niece in middle school was hit by an uninsured, unlicensed driver and was thrown up over the car, breaking both legs and shattering her pelvis when she landed. If any reader here has never driven through New Mexico before, especially Albuquerque, let me give you a desperate warning. I beg you, please be on your guard and use extreme caution. Colorado is not much better but competence is slightly higher.
What an absolute treasure of a video cache you have created and I have discovered! And an unlikely bonus for my ears… your voice is reminiscent of John Bosley of the 1977 Original Charlie’s Angels, which I find strangely comforting. 😂😊 Thank you for creating such informative and awesomely shot essays! Top notch!!
Thanks for the comment! I received compliments on my VO but never have I been compared to Bosley. Maybe one day i’ll work with 3 angles. btw- please subscribe. You may enjoy my Glacier NP, Utah Tour and New Mexico road trip. the latter includes some of the native sites segments- which can be bypassed.
I was walking through the woods in Mesa Verde once along the road to Cliff Palace, and I found an ancient hide scraper sitting exposed atop a large mole mound. It was very eerie to find it just sitting on a fresh mound of earth, like it was pushed up for someone to find. FWIW, I did not keep or take the hide scraper, but I recognized it in the brochure when I got back to our car. The Navajo insist that the cliff dwellers ARE NOT Anasazi and ARE NOT descended from the Chaco communities. Navajo say cliff dwellers were there when the Navajo got there, and most cliff dwellers became Diné or Navajo. Navajo elders say “Anasazi” means “elders not like us,” that is, elders who teach a death cult that practices slavery and cannibalism. Navajo elders say some cliff dwellers in the Grand Canyon were ancestors of Hopi hiding from the Anasazi incursions.
This is correct from a Navajo. The Anasazi are not puebloan, cliff dweller, Navajo, sinagua or mogollon. From Navajo stories the Anasazi came into the SW after the Navajo & then subjugated nearby tribes for slave labor, human sacrifice & cannibalism. The Navajo then kicked them out of the SW & pushed them into northern Mexico. Would be crazy if the SW is Aztlán. Also the hovenweep site were grain/resource silos built by the Navajo then were turned into defensive structures during the Spanish conquest.
Found your channel through a YT recommendation. GREAT content! Thank you so much for putting this together. I saved all of these places on Google Maps with a link back to this video for future reference so when I plan the next adventure through the SW I’ll have this handy. Keep it up!
Thanks for the reminder of keeping three rivers clean and be respectful. Unfortunately there is evidence of modern humans being there. But I'm sure anyone watching your channel, has nothing but the up most respect for how sensitive these sites are. Thanks for you work to give us touch of our southwestern history.
We had a pioneer family in Prescott in a log cabin . They were just like the Ma And Pa Kettle show . Chucks grandfather was one of the cowboys discovered mesa Verde .Chuck was impetuous and disappeared to the Alaskan oil line and never saw him again . Just like the kettles they built a new house next to the old one which burned down . The Baptist family wouldn't let me walk over the mountain alone without first saying the sinners prayer .. Prescott...what a place
The door shapes are a giveaway indeed, which I recognize from a tour trip to Peru. Large storage installations enroute allowed military sized movements of people-soldiers perhaps policing the flow and distribution of wealth.
@15:18 i have seen other areas near these houses that have the same shape as chatro. the ground is also discolored. without a doubt there was way more houses
Good stuff, as usual. These videos (all) shine for the details about parking, or leashes, or whatever. Details matter, and thanks for giving them. But the photography/cinematography is always the excuse for me to watch. Edit to ask, how often do park rangers agree to give you a one-on-one?
Thanks 👍for the comment! and for subscribing! These days - since Oct 2022- getting an interview with a Ranger is not possible without first applying for and paying for a Filming Permit! TH-camrs are treated the same as Hollywood movie makers. This is an insane law by our lovely Federal Government! The permits take weeks to get- the one for Glacier costs $225 and is 8 pages long! Luckily I shot that very helpful and articulate Ranger before this example of Gov overreach went into place.
Some parks let you work around the permit if you agree to keep a low profile and still shoot- in others its best not to ask when in the park. I ask before I go and tend to avoid parks with aggressive Permit police- like Yellowstone. Most of the Rangers I've asked to appear on camera did so willingly and were very good on camera. I've interviewed over 120 CEOs and the Rangers are generally better than the CEOs. Only in Guadalupe MTs NP did the Rangers refuse to appear on camera.
I've been meaning to ask! Why is it you haven't covered Arizona? I've always appreciated the area near the Arizona/Utah border for The Wave, Antelope Canyon, Lake Powell, Winslow Crater, Sedona, Marble Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, etc. I ask, but I also think I know why; Tourism, and NOT the load less traveled. I do however feel like there are some untapped spots out there that you could uncover for your audience. Barring Antelope Canyon, there are so many slot canyons out that way as well. Once again, I really appreciate your videos. They have heavily guided my trips out to NM and UT. I have yet to explore AZ past Petrified Forest NP.
First, I want to thank you for the comment and your past and present support. I wish I had more Subs like you! I've been through AZ a few times but have only shot in Sedona and Petrified Forest. Sedona is too crowded to recommend and no one watch a pertirfied forest vid I made years ago. But the main reason I have not done much in AZ is I'm not made of money! It's very expensive to travel. These videos don't cover travel cost let alone compensate me for the 100's of hours it takes to make my well researched videos. I do have to make a living and I can't do that when I'm making videos like these (I'm a professional video producer for over 20 years). That said I and thinking about an AZ shoot before it get to hot- and during spring training. I'd like to go to Casa Grande, Wupati or however you spell it, the big creater (again), Page and Petrified Forest Mon valley etc. But even when sleeping in the SUV some of the time, the costs ad up.
@@TheWestisBig Thank you for the response! Your level of insight is unfortunately hard to market to TH-cam and travelers. Most are seeking out as much information as possible under a ten minute window... which you don't do. and is exactly why I like your channel and its uniqueness. With that said, I still enjoy the short styled content you occasionally post because you compliment it with your lengthier videos. I'm looking forward to more videos to come! P.S. I really like the esoteric, photography/lighting sections you mention. It's very helpful for a novice like me!
What u say is true. Most want shorter vids. FYI. I’ll be releasing several short stand alone segments from the ruin sites video. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone watches. Mesa verde will be first
@TheWestisBig If you do make it to Arizona, I suggest going to the White Tank Mountain trail. There's a lot of petroglyphs all along the trail. It is a pretty easy hike.
I'm of Nu7lhalk decent of British Columbia and we have stories of migration to the south for a number of years and then returned to our traditional territory. I and my family have Zuni blood.
Interesting! Are there any permanent sites up there? I've been to Head Smashed In a couple of times- Great place- but that's it regarding First Nations sites
Perhaps some of us are unaware that if you are not a Black person ancient doesn't apply to so-called nonblack people due to the fact that they have only been on the planet for six to ten thousand years and are not naturally occurring people ie autochthonous beings. Shalawam from the real American Indian 👊🏿🕎⚔️🏹🪶🌽💜🙏🏿
Hi, I live in Albuquerque. I go to Jemez Pueblo quite often.. The part of the video, where you say is Jemez, is not Jemez but a small community just before Jemez Pueblo called San Ysidro. Visited Mesa Verde in2018. No ladder was needed for Cliff House. Maybe in the past, but not now. Just a small corrections will fix this. Thank you. Great video. Chaco Canyon is also a World Heritage Site. I have been fascinated about cliff dwellings and have researched it quite a bit. You are right. There was a threat and then there wasn't. Verrrrry controversial. You may know what I am referring to.
What a great video! Thanks for creating it and sharing! I live in NM and the one thing I wanted to share with you is that Acoma is pronounced "Ak-o-Ma"
18:46 “how did the people there knew” Answer: they were very smart people that had good relationships with their neighbors for thousands of years till those who love conquest and enslaving came to this lands. Extremely simple answer!
Thankyou for a common sense statement of history. In a straight line, this drives away the drivel of religions dogma. Ya know, the big 3 that are touted as the only ones that matter, created in one small dot of geographical earth, excluding hundreds maybe thousands of human groups around the rest of the planet from their benevolent guidance.
You must have paid a small fortune on that trip. Fifty years ago, I wasn't expecting it to cost me $20 per car to enter the big parks, and $7 per night for a tent campsite, so I went broke pretty fast, and barely made it back home on fumes. Parks were very restrictive, and you had to have an address to register for a site, and campsite managers harassed each camper twice per day, about their fires, and trash. They didn't allow any homeless people to enter the parks, but it's probably pretty hard to keep them out today.
If you visit White Sands, bring water and remember to plan to deal with the heat. There are frequent sand storms and dust devils out there. Don’t try to get near the oryx (large antelope from Africa - long story how they got there, just stay away.). When I lived near there I used to decide what type of day it was going to be by the height of the sand clouds forming.
Great video , but no chimney rock? Ive been to all these places and more im very greatfull for it. No offense but i dont put alot of weight behind the park rangers knowledge
There are many sires from Mexico to New Mexico, Az, Utah even Colorado. I believe many were from Ice Age n before and the Utes and Southern Utes simply moved in. Many in New Mexico has tons of shards if broken pots, telling me violence was all over. The Ancient Forest gone today and the rivers cutting in the Earth lowered the land making it so difficult to enter them. I believe the cornmeal was used to attract birds and kill bugs and rodants.
I live in Alamogordo I've been here about 20 years now from Gold bar Washington up highway 2 there's not much here in Alamogordo is there this past summer it got 110 120°degrees
@@TheWestisBig Absolutely! You’ve got yourself a new subscriber lol I’m really glad I found your channel. It’s a bummer TH-cam makes it so hard to find quality channels like yours.
I will. Dr Lekson’s ideas make sense to me. He says the Navajo and Rio Grande tribes don’t like to talk about Chaco because they say “bad things happened there.” btw- the national park service and other tribes say it was a large communal city.
Chaco Canyan was like a big "casino" that was based on human trafficking. It was built to keep people/slaves in, not to keep people out. Those were prison cells.
I love NM, been to most of these sites multiple times over past 60 yrs. What technique is used to date foot prints? James Webb has made me want a little more depth on scientific assumes. Great bidei
You'll have to google it but it involves carbon dating of the pollen at the same level as the footprints. There were at least 2 studies. The first was a few years ago and peer review criticized it because the pollen may have absorbed modern carbon from water over the years. the 2nd study was published 6 or so Months ago and is said to be more robust.www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/study-confirms-age-oldest-fossil-human-footprints-north-america#:~:text=In%20September%202021%2C%20U.S.%20Geological,21%2C000%20and%2023%2C000%20years%20old.
I was on a Honda 350. Traveling about with an 8" SW ... Alone. Cortez Colo. kids said meet us to party at Hovenwehp . It was Sept and school was back in and the road was empty when I ran out of gas . I spotted a Hogan fire coming over the ridge and the Indian man was living alone in a Hogan . He's he had some gas to spare . So as the sun was setting I pulled into the campground. I was alone .... I thought ... Then I swilled some beer smoked a fattie and lay down with my pillow being that Smith and Wesson . X. Marine ...you really don't want to mess with me I have an inch on Hulk Hogan and can bench press my motorcycle and I'm armed with the heavy duty . As I went to sleep on the picnic table I could have sworn I heard children giggling . Sunrise and two Indian girls are wiggling my big toe . Hurry up silly you'll be late for breakfast .. brave girls . They left alive and running towards the berm and ran behind it about 70m SW of my position . So I grabbed my leather and hung it on my shoulder and with the leather vest and boots I must have looked like a giant hells angel lumbering about . Then I saw the Tuba City High School bus and about two dozen Indian princesses . I introduced myself . I am Bill Aubles step son David . Their teacher stepped up and said your step father is well known to every Navajo tmyou are welcome bring your gun for snakes and spend the day exploring with us . Now ...who is Bill Auble ? And how did one white man earn the life long respect of these shy and private people ? Well 1966 the Navajo Code.was declassified . Prescott Courier editor Jim Garner handed mom an envelope and said go find this Bill Auble ...He is literally the Crocodile.Dundee of the reservation . So mom was single found her man and just like the movie .... She married him... This meant we were Navajo family. We are all Masons and secrets are safe here .. they loved it. We got to see all the stuff white folks don't see . Met the people white folks don't meet . We went to all the places white men don't go . Wow wow wow wow . ! Do I have a great respect for the human beings . The Dineh ...Hastien Yahze ..pretty good all right baby ! So an armed man made friends with a wild Indian group of little girls .. I was so honored and boy did we have fun .. I got the personal Indian tour of Hovenwehp buddy that's for sure . From the relatives of those what built it maybe .. I've also made the Yosemite landslide 1994 . We were in south center it wiped out the new and unused north center killed many and injured a bunch . But I said no let's not climb north let's bike south ... That decision is why I'm still writing this silly ... An in natural hole in the clouds followed Rose and I to Vegas Portland down the coast into the SanLuis Obispo fire where on empty and in a wheelchair van a cop steered us from 15 miles away on I-5 straight into the flames eastnof town no power and a CB trucker steered me into the only gas pump and we oassed nothing but fire trucks into LA and back to Phienix . Or 1982 . Sacramento South Florin Road . Member in hand watering the weeds at 6 am or so a B52 winged over and killed.my neighbors horse on the 100 acre tracts . I had 18 men in a farmhouse to evacuate ... Missed is by 100m ... Any questions .? Oh the hole in the clouds remained 2 weeks over PHX as we returned from Yosemite . Wierd huh?
Native American 50K year old fire ring Savana River Georgia. 130K year old mastadon bones near San Diego, CA showing signs of human butchering and fragmented bones from seeking marrow.
you might be surprised how many Tribes don’t wish to share their stories with outsiders. And diff tribes have different versions of history. It’s very complicated
@@TheWestisBig I live in the area. So you might be surprised on how many do wish to share their stories. The old ways of considering people "outsiders" it's not so much anymore. Yet here these tour guides give their opinion on history, who is to say their version is correct. They just make up stuff like the Anasazi possible cannibals. but thanks for your response.
@@AlPha-rl4mp I just watched a Navajo elder on a Navajo channel state exactly that about those people. They were practicing dark beliefs as stated above according to him.
@TheWestisBig the sand dunes aren't too far away. Ppl ride quads and sand surf. Bc of the topography between the 2 you do have to do one and then drive to the next but it's here...just not as popular as the four corners area. It used to be thought that only the Oklahoma salt flats and a place in China were the only 2 places to get the crazy shaped crystals, gypsum I think.
@@TheWestisBig Different one. The big famous newspaper rock is on the way to Moab up. Whatever root it is. I believe it is US 89 In Southeastern Utah, and there is a road that goes to the Southern portion of the Canyon. Lands National Park with some interesting things to see and some neat little boxed. Canyon ranches that are private.
@@TheWestisBig also, seek out BUTLER WASH cliff ruins, and hike above the waterfall a bit,, lovely fertile flats below the fall, overlooked from the dwellings.. Very cozy
What about the other side of the lake at the same elevation? Could you start fishing around in their hours areas? You know what I'm saying. I think it's possible you could come across even more. I'm not joking with you seriously. No jokes. Try it. I bet you come up with something😅
what is interesting on things closed in Sept 2024 in Mesa Verde... the whole western loop. Yet trying to find tickets on internet for tours over there... entering by dates ? Gee that far view visitor ranger thingy is abandoned...
the Wetherill was closed due to a re-pave and adding kiosks. They changed the tours page for fall. but summer had a dwelling closed for collapse... didn't say if for rock or wall?
probably. you heard the Ranger say Dogs cause damage and stress local wildlife who can’t tell the difference between a certified service dog and a regular pet. btw- the blind lady made it up the rocky hill without one. Call each park to double check.
why don’t you spend 100s of hours and lots of money on your version of whatever you think is lacking!? I assume you’re incapable of thought, effort and expense.
they weren't just living on corn that whole place was a lush garden after the flood,i dare to say that that whole area was a pre-flood habitation that they built on ,an advanced culture from thousands of years ago.
the T shape was also carved into pots. they think it meant something significant. also at Chaco the T shapes were only on doors which lead to the outside- that seems to have changed at Aztec. hmm ??
_Jemez,_ not _"Jeméz."_ Sounds like "hem this" without the "th." _Acoma,_ not _"Acooma."_ Homophonic with "a coma". The "escarpment" at Petroglyph is actually named "El Ceja"; the NPS employee should have known this. Today, there are four sites (new one opened within a week of this comment). the "Navajo Name" is pronounced "yah'-ought'-eh", where an apostrophe is a hard glottal stop, similar to the almost silent T when you use "mat" in a sentence. Yá'át'ééh means "hello" (lit. "all is well").
Fantastic is not a big enough word for the information and care in this video. I am always planning my dream trip and this was an excellent resource. Thank you.
thanks, its nice to hear the work is appreciated!! and thanks for subscribing too
They live in town and in settlements in the area.
Dr. Lekson has theories about why they left. The tribes don't like to share their "Ancestral Knowledge" with outsiders. Its frustrating. The Hopi are different- they claim to have scientific proof they lived there for 400,000 years.
I think you are mistaken there. Hopi said they were migrating and all tribes are descended from Hopi who stopped migrating. Ute &:Mayan have same count of years
22, 919 years since American continents arose from under ocean.
My source is a Hopi Elder who based his thesis on a detailed study of Chaco’s Great Houses construction.
My beloved grandfather worked and retired from Ft. Union. He specialized in adobe making & and repairs. He was called to Bents Fort to help restore the adobe walls. I really enjoyed this video. My grandfather was a great man. He was part Navajo and Spanish. He was a ww2 Army Veteran 💜 received a purple 💜. I was very blessed to have a wonderful grandfather. Thank you for your brilliant video. 👏.
That is very cool!! I hope he shared lots of stories! i would have loved to have interviewed him
Yes, I have the best memories of my grandfather and grandmother. My great grandmother's as well. Natives of New Mexico. I had great childhood memories of my family. Now I live in the beautiful state of Washington. I do travel to New Mexico and Colorado to visit the family. My grandfather passed away in 95. Again I will say that your channel is very brilliant 👏. Bless you always sir. 🙏
Thanks again for the kind comment. FYI- if you havent been to Frenchman's Coolie or Dry falls in WA I did a couple of quickie videos with drone footage on those interesting places. Those vids aren't to the standard of my longer videos but if you've never been to them its a brief introduction. Nick on the Rocks does it better.
Thank you for telling us about your wonderful grandfather. His generation were the best. Men like him are rare now. Both my grandfathers and my father and two uncles were in WWI and WW11. I am 82 and live in Montana. Most of my people have long ago passed on. It's lonely.
@marjoriegarner5369 You are very welcome. I think Montana is so beautiful and not too far away from Central Washington . I have traveled through Montana on I-90. So beautiful. Today I had the pleasure of seeing beautiful Robin birds 🐦 spring is here. I wish you a blessed day and year.
I grew up in Los Alamos. Bandelier was my childhood playground. I consider it my heart home.
Lucky you
Also lived in Los Alamos. Forgot how lucky I was to explore the area and live in history for so long. Used to love to camp through New Mexico. Looks different, really wish it was not so “improved”.
Thank you for the great tour of native sites in New Mexico.
Glad you enjoyed it! thanks jay
Finding this channel has made my day! Been watching Trek Planner and Desert Drifter for a while now so this is the perfect addition. THANKS!
Welcome aboard! and thanks for the comment and subscribing!
Hear here. I’m in as well. Great production brother. 👍👍👍
24:00.. so..they transported trees, rocks, from miles away.. how.. & then,they went north to get away from opression,, then south..?.. how do they get specific dates. this lady is saying, the weather has gone from mild, farming, to desert, in less than 1k.. ??..@@TheWestisBig
they smoothed off the logs, stripped the bark,,with..??..@@TheWestisBig
The tree rings provide very accurate dates- i think it’s called dendrochronology.
I’m SO glad I visited all of these sites before the current crowd control restrictions. I appreciate that there are people preserving the history.
thanks
Outstanding video. I can't imagine the effort and time it took to create this wonderful video. Thank you for this incredible glimpse into this area of the country, my favorite place.
Thanks! It’s nice to hear the hard work is and time is appreciated!!
Thank you to the ranger that gave us such a fantastic tour!
Glad you enjoyed it
I just visited the 4-corners for the first time 2 weeks ago. Wish I had seen this video before the trip. Excellent job of showing off the area. I can't wait to get back there to do more in-depth exploring. Nice Job on this tour! 👋👋👋
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful summaries! I’ve visited many of these sites so it was a lovely look back for me!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was so amazing, informational, and very fun. Thank you for your great dedication time and content. 🎉😊🌟👌
Thanks for the kind words!! and for supporting the channel! it’s nice to hear the work is appreciated
That is truly an interesting site. I agree with you that the final and controversial panel is an unfinished depiction of a warrior with a severed head. Thank you Andrew!
Thanks. I think there’s a chance Chaco is more closely related to the Aztecs than modern Pueblos. The Aztecs were not kind to their vassals.
Not close to done this yet, but the discussion on the ancient pueblos got me thinking back to my visits to Wupatki. It actually makes a lot of sense that the large structure with the Mesoamerican ball court would be a palace served by all the little outlying farmhouses. Interesting... Thanks for the thought-provoking content as well as the travel information!
The similarities can’t be a coincidence. I haven’t been to Wupatki or Casa Grande yet. hopefully this year. Search steve lekson he’s a professor at U of colorado. he’s pushing the mesaAmerican connection
think about this.. its gone from farming, to desert, in less than 1k.. i think there dates are for wrong.. pottery, proves nothing.. you cant date stone..
tree data- Dedendraconology is supposed to be pretty accurate
@@harrywalker968 but you can date the wood in the ceilings. Of course, the wood could in theory be replaced or reworked.
You, most certainly can date stone.@harrywalker968
Excellent. My brother has a home in the Jemez area so we have been there once. Would love to go back but we are getting close to 80 and can travel so your excellent video is it for us in this life.
Thanks for the comment. it’s nice to know the work is appreciated!
Was there before it was paved. Used to hike and camp through Bandelier. Miss this area.
Nice
To quote the comedian, Eddie Izzard: "We've found this, and carbon dated it to last Tuesday, so we're very excited." "What have we got?" And they always find in archaeology, a series of small walls. Every time, a series of small walls. Everywhere you go. "We found a series of small walls, we're very excited. "We think this proves that they had walls in olden days. "They were very small. A series of small-walled people." And then someone, very learned with glasses, says, "The King and Queen entertained here, courtiers and soldiers in this room. And elephants dancing hopscotch over there. Mad fiddler in this room, playing the banjo. Viaducts and aqueducts..." And you watch going, "You're making this up, mate." You just point at a series of small walls and say, "Tutankhamen played banjo in there."
The idea that a people could build something like Chaco Canyon or Mesa Verde without writing or mathematics is absurd. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If they were influenced by the people south of there in what is now Mexico, those people did have writing and did understand mathematics. They had a great grasp on astronomy too. I'd dare say most of the stuff they say about these places isn't even true. They're just making stuff up LOL And the ranger at Mesa Verde saying how great it would be to witness one of their ceremonies - oh really? You sure about that since we don't know what they were doing? - it's verboten nowadays but my mother-in-law was there in the 1950s and was told there was evidence of cannibalism, and when I studied archaeology in college a long time ago now, it was well known then. That's why these places were abandoned - war and cannibalism. There's plenty of evidence of it, and there have been academic papers written more recently trying to handwave it away because some people find it uncomfortable.
At any rate, can't wait to see them myself. We're going to several of these sites in late summer this year. Thanks for the video.
Exactly!
It is well known that there was an intricate road system, with watch/signal towers for quick communication, from Chaco down into Mexico. Feathers of a parrot only found somewhere between Mexico and Brazil have been found to reinforce this existence of trade. Many ancient sites at and around Chaco have astronomical alignments. None of this is "hidden". Who is telling you otherwise?
Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing this information. I hope too see much of this next spring!
Thanks. That's a great time to go! thanks for commenting and subscribing
Chaco looks so different, hoping people care for all the lands, animals and ruins. There used to be some brush and small trees, sorry they have been lost.
Loved this video, with so much detail to each site! I had the opportunity to visit most of these sites in 2022 when I worked as a travel nurse in the four corners region. I was absolutely enchanted with the area and can’t wait to get back there to explore more. The entire region is a feast for the senses!
thanks- now I have a Q for you. Because of all the great stuff nearby- Im thinking of moving to farmington- what's the heathcare system like there?
Fantastic video
Thanks for the comment!!!
This is a great video! I've watched several of yours but you've done a spectacular job in putting together a great guide. Really appreciate your footage from Hovenweep and Canyon of the Ancients. We've spend a little time in each but it's so overlooked. There's a richness that we struggle to appreciate an understand.
Thank you very much noticing and letting me know!! You’ve articulated my style of making these guides! it’s not about me - it’s about the place.
Great vídeo! Thank you very much for share it! Very interesting ! Heloisa
Thanks. That is a little different than my usual stuff
Ya-ta-hay. It means hi or hello ive live in Farmington and I've been around natives all my life. Very interesting peoples
Thanks- I’ve been to Farmington many times. it’s close to so many interesting places. i’m hoping there’s enough Media work there to move there- maybe near the college.
Thanks for making this nice video.
So nice of you. thanks for commenting and subscribing!
Thank you so much for posting and sharing this wonderful production!!
So well done, and so informative. I learned so much. Thank you, thank you!!👍👍👍
I'd love to visit someday....
You are so welcome! Thanks for recognizing the effort.
Really cool. I enjoyed watching your video very much. It definitely makes me wish I was your age again. Ha! Back then I did a lot of exploring but I didn't have a camera or drone. We have some old Polaroid pictures, but need I say more ;) Thank you for sharing and keep enjoying this wonderful country.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting. I like to see a kids face today watching a the photo appear. They'd think it was magic
Thank You! This was great!
You are so welcome!
Loved this!! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! and thanks for commenting and subscribing
Like you, I want for these beautiful places to remain unknown to everyone.
Unknown places get vandalized more often than popular places.
That is very true. Who are the elite to decide to keep sites secret?
They are not elite, they are cockroaches @@TheCrossroads533
Like your videos, your attitude and the trips you've recorded. Feel like you've been there before as you read things around you narrated them like a book called someones diary, or bible. Endless Exploration
Thanks for the kind comment I assume the Letter I is missing as the first word.
You survived the trip through Albuquerque? That's astounding! As a resident at one time, or maybe even now, I can tell you there's a massive lack of driving competence and a whole lot of ego diving instead of driving using one's brain. I was followed for 35 minutes once by a road-rager who would not stop until I led him/us into a police station. No cops around of course, but he finally gave up. The typical drivers do not use turn signals for anything at any time. They roll right through stop signs and red lights on purpose. Speed limit? No such thing. There is very little traffic enforcement, so they know there are nearly zero consequences for anything they do. All this is complicated by texting and driving, and the relatively recent legalization of a popular mind altering substance. If you have your window down, you can smell it billowing out of cars. Again, almost zero traffic enforcement. One example: My niece in middle school was hit by an uninsured, unlicensed driver and was thrown up over the car, breaking both legs and shattering her pelvis when she landed. If any reader here has never driven through New Mexico before, especially Albuquerque, let me give you a desperate warning. I beg you, please be on your guard and use extreme caution. Colorado is not much better but competence is slightly higher.
WTF!!! Sounds like freaking Mad Max!!
Unfortunately this is true. 😕
The Eastern Band of Cherokees proudly support the use of Braves mascot for the Atlanta baseball team.
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What an absolute treasure of a video cache you have created and I have discovered! And an unlikely bonus for my ears… your voice is reminiscent of John Bosley of the 1977 Original Charlie’s Angels, which I find strangely comforting. 😂😊 Thank you for creating such informative and awesomely shot essays! Top notch!!
Thanks for the comment! I received compliments on my VO but never have I been compared to Bosley. Maybe one day i’ll work with 3 angles. btw- please subscribe. You may enjoy my Glacier NP, Utah Tour and New Mexico road trip. the latter includes some of the native sites segments- which can be bypassed.
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There’s hints of the likeness in some of these clips.😂
thanks. i’ll take it as a compliment!
Been to canyon de chilled twice it’s big and takes time to see but great
I was walking through the woods in Mesa Verde once along the road to Cliff Palace, and I found an ancient hide scraper sitting exposed atop a large mole mound. It was very eerie to find it just sitting on a fresh mound of earth, like it was pushed up for someone to find. FWIW, I did not keep or take the hide scraper, but I recognized it in the brochure when I got back to our car.
The Navajo insist that the cliff dwellers ARE NOT Anasazi and ARE NOT descended from the Chaco communities. Navajo say cliff dwellers were there when the Navajo got there, and most cliff dwellers became Diné or Navajo.
Navajo elders say “Anasazi” means “elders not like us,” that is, elders who teach a death cult that practices slavery and cannibalism. Navajo elders say some cliff dwellers in the Grand Canyon were ancestors of Hopi hiding from the Anasazi incursions.
Very cool
This is correct from a Navajo. The Anasazi are not puebloan, cliff dweller, Navajo, sinagua or mogollon. From Navajo stories the Anasazi came into the SW after the Navajo & then subjugated nearby tribes for slave labor, human sacrifice & cannibalism. The Navajo then kicked them out of the SW & pushed them into northern Mexico. Would be crazy if the SW is Aztlán.
Also the hovenweep site were grain/resource silos built by the Navajo then were turned into defensive structures during the Spanish conquest.
Good job keep letting America know the history of the original people's God bless you
thanks! for commenting and subscribing! it took a lot of work
Found your channel through a YT recommendation. GREAT content! Thank you so much for putting this together. I saved all of these places on Google Maps with a link back to this video for future reference so when I plan the next adventure through the SW I’ll have this handy. Keep it up!
Thanks for watching and commeting
So the Clovis dateline has been officially obliterated.
yes it would seem so
Thanks for the reminder of keeping three rivers clean and be respectful. Unfortunately there is evidence of modern humans being there. But I'm sure anyone watching your channel, has nothing but the up most respect for how sensitive these sites are. Thanks for you work to give us touch of our southwestern history.
thanks for the kind comment
We had a pioneer family in Prescott in a log cabin . They were just like the Ma And Pa Kettle show . Chucks grandfather was one of the cowboys discovered mesa Verde .Chuck was impetuous and disappeared to the Alaskan oil line and never saw him again . Just like the kettles they built a new house next to the old one which burned down . The Baptist family wouldn't let me walk over the mountain alone without first saying the sinners prayer .. Prescott...what a place
I'm a native you're a hell of a narrator
thanks. I spend a lot of time on the script and the VO
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once again thanks for your generosity
I like that area a lot Ouray - Durango -Telluride
I’m planning on making a video of a road trip of the million dollar highway in the next year or 2
I was called crazy for saying the natives been here for 25k years
The door shapes are a giveaway indeed, which I recognize from a tour trip to Peru. Large storage installations enroute allowed military sized movements of people-soldiers perhaps policing the flow and distribution of wealth.
Hmm interesting- I've never been to Machu Pichu- Afraid my gear would be stolen- do they have T doors there too?
@@TheWestisBig T shaped doors and windows are all over ruins in central and south America.
interesting
interesting, thanks~
You're welcome
@15:18 i have seen other areas near these houses that have the same shape as chatro. the ground is also discolored. without a doubt there was way more houses
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Good stuff, as usual. These videos (all) shine for the details about parking, or leashes, or whatever. Details matter, and thanks for giving them. But the photography/cinematography is always the excuse for me to watch. Edit to ask, how often do park rangers agree to give you a one-on-one?
Thanks 👍for the comment! and for subscribing! These days - since Oct 2022- getting an interview with a Ranger is not possible without first applying for and paying for a Filming Permit! TH-camrs are treated the same as Hollywood movie makers. This is an insane law by our lovely Federal Government! The permits take weeks to get- the one for Glacier costs $225 and is 8 pages long! Luckily I shot that very helpful and articulate Ranger before this example of Gov overreach went into place.
Sometimes you can get a reach-around if you ask real nice.
Some parks let you work around the permit if you agree to keep a low profile and still shoot- in others its best not to ask when in the park. I ask before I go and tend to avoid parks with aggressive Permit police- like Yellowstone.
Most of the Rangers I've asked to appear on camera did so willingly and were very good on camera. I've interviewed over 120 CEOs and the Rangers are generally better than the CEOs. Only in Guadalupe MTs NP did the Rangers refuse to appear on camera.
In late April, 2013, visitors self toured on Mesa Verde, Azteca, other sites here...
nope
I've been meaning to ask! Why is it you haven't covered Arizona? I've always appreciated the area near the Arizona/Utah border for The Wave, Antelope Canyon, Lake Powell, Winslow Crater, Sedona, Marble Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, etc.
I ask, but I also think I know why; Tourism, and NOT the load less traveled. I do however feel like there are some untapped spots out there that you could uncover for your audience. Barring Antelope Canyon, there are so many slot canyons out that way as well.
Once again, I really appreciate your videos. They have heavily guided my trips out to NM and UT. I have yet to explore AZ past Petrified Forest NP.
First, I want to thank you for the comment and your past and present support. I wish I had more Subs like you!
I've been through AZ a few times but have only shot in Sedona and Petrified Forest. Sedona is too crowded to recommend and no one watch a pertirfied forest vid I made years ago. But the main reason I have not done much in AZ is I'm not made of money! It's very expensive to travel. These videos don't cover travel cost let alone compensate me for the 100's of hours it takes to make my well researched videos. I do have to make a living and I can't do that when I'm making videos like these (I'm a professional video producer for over 20 years).
That said I and thinking about an AZ shoot before it get to hot- and during spring training. I'd like to go to Casa Grande, Wupati or however you spell it, the big creater (again), Page and Petrified Forest Mon valley etc. But even when sleeping in the SUV some of the time, the costs ad up.
@@TheWestisBig Thank you for the response! Your level of insight is unfortunately hard to market to TH-cam and travelers. Most are seeking out as much information as possible under a ten minute window... which you don't do. and is exactly why I like your channel and its uniqueness. With that said, I still enjoy the short styled content you occasionally post because you compliment it with your lengthier videos. I'm looking forward to more videos to come! P.S. I really like the esoteric, photography/lighting sections you mention. It's very helpful for a novice like me!
What u say is true. Most want shorter vids. FYI. I’ll be releasing several short stand alone segments from the ruin sites video. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone watches. Mesa verde will be first
@TheWestisBig If you do make it to Arizona, I suggest going to the White Tank Mountain trail. There's a lot of petroglyphs all along the trail. It is a pretty easy hike.
I'm of Nu7lhalk decent of British Columbia and we have stories of migration to the south for a number of years and then returned to our traditional territory. I and my family have Zuni blood.
Interesting! Are there any permanent sites up there? I've been to Head Smashed In a couple of times- Great place- but that's it regarding First Nations sites
@@TheWestisBig the government destroyed everything
Thanks for sharing your story 😊
Perhaps some of us are unaware that if you are not a Black person ancient doesn't apply to so-called nonblack people due to the fact that they have only been on the planet for six to ten thousand years and are not naturally occurring people ie autochthonous beings. Shalawam from the real American Indian 👊🏿🕎⚔️🏹🪶🌽💜🙏🏿
Can you please provide links to some of the Steven Leckson presentations on Chaco?
enter his name in google or youtube search- several will be listed
Hi, I live in Albuquerque. I go to Jemez Pueblo quite often.. The part of the video, where you say is Jemez, is not Jemez but a small community just before Jemez Pueblo called San Ysidro. Visited Mesa Verde in2018. No ladder was needed for Cliff House. Maybe in the past, but not now. Just a small corrections will fix this. Thank you. Great video. Chaco Canyon is also a World Heritage Site. I have been fascinated about cliff dwellings and have researched it quite a bit. You are right. There was a threat and then there wasn't. Verrrrry controversial. You may know what I am referring to.
Thanks. YT doesn’t allow little changes like unfortunately. I’ll change it the next time I update it.
What a great video! Thanks for creating it and sharing!
I live in NM and the one thing I wanted to share with you is that Acoma is pronounced
"Ak-o-Ma"
ok thanks
Great!
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Thank you.
You're Welcome
Some of these folks had great foot arches 23,000 years ago.
lol
18:46 “how did the people there knew”
Answer: they were very smart people that had good relationships with their neighbors for thousands of years till those who love conquest and enslaving came to this lands.
Extremely simple answer!
Thankyou for a common sense statement of history. In a straight line, this drives away the drivel of religions dogma. Ya know, the big 3 that are touted as the only ones that matter, created in one small dot of geographical earth, excluding hundreds maybe thousands of human groups around the rest of the planet from their benevolent guidance.
thanks! I'm surprised at all the negative feedback I'm getting from those groups
Every time I have been there the wind was blowing hard.
in the spring I assume
This is so remote(Chaco Canyon) it was probably founded by people from1200 miles to the south, and it was them that brought the chocolate with them!!
That’s what I was trying to say. At least hinting at.
You must have paid a small fortune on that trip. Fifty years ago, I wasn't expecting it to cost me $20 per car to enter the big parks, and $7 per night for a tent campsite, so I went broke pretty fast, and barely made it back home on fumes.
Parks were very restrictive, and you had to have an address to register for a site, and campsite managers harassed each camper twice per day, about their fires, and trash.
They didn't allow any homeless people to enter the parks, but it's probably pretty hard to keep them out today.
hotels and gas were the biggest expenses. not cheap.
$80 park pass gets you into all National Parks, National Monuments, BLM land, etc.
If you visit White Sands, bring water and remember to plan to deal with the heat. There are frequent sand storms and dust devils out there. Don’t try to get near the oryx (large antelope from Africa - long story how they got there, just stay away.). When I lived near there I used to decide what type of day it was going to be by the height of the sand clouds forming.
thanks
Great video , but no chimney rock? Ive been to all these places and more im very greatfull for it. No offense but i dont put alot of weight behind the park rangers knowledge
Hey Doc, did ya forget to take a left at Albuquerque?😂😂😂
I did a sixth grade report on the Pueblo people….I got an A.
lol 😂 congrats
Very cool. 😊
All roads lead to Chaco. I used to work at Aztec.
i’m thinking about doing a walking tour of Aztec Nat Mon
There are many sires from Mexico to New Mexico, Az, Utah even Colorado. I believe many were from Ice Age n before and the Utes and Southern Utes simply moved in. Many in New Mexico has tons of shards if broken pots, telling me violence was all over. The Ancient Forest gone today and the rivers cutting in the Earth lowered the land making it so difficult to enter them. I believe the cornmeal was used to attract birds and kill bugs and rodants.
I live in Alamogordo I've been here about 20 years now from Gold bar Washington up highway 2 there's not much here in Alamogordo is there this past summer it got 110 120°degrees
I drove HWY 2 last summer Diablo lake was nice- as was the twisty Road.
Omg thank you for not being pseudoscience and conspiracy theory history!! This is great.
Thank you for recognizing the work and effort that went into to the project.
@@TheWestisBig Absolutely! You’ve got yourself a new subscriber lol I’m really glad I found your channel. It’s a bummer TH-cam makes it so hard to find quality channels like yours.
You ought to check out Wally the Navaho, the story he tells of Chaco is quite different .
I will. Dr Lekson’s ideas make sense to me. He says the Navajo and Rio Grande tribes don’t like to talk about Chaco because they say “bad things happened there.” btw- the national park service and other tribes say it was a large communal city.
Chaco Canyan was like a big "casino" that was based on human trafficking. It was built to keep people/slaves in, not to keep people out. Those were prison cells.
Great video - chapters would be very helpful
hmm I didn’t know i forgot those
I'm not sure those people were tougher, they were definitely used to the times in which they were living!!😮(tougher than nails!!)
they were different that's for sure
White Sands, that's where they get the sand to fill all of those public ashtrays!!
Well not from the National Park.
Lol
I love NM, been to most of these sites multiple times over past 60 yrs. What technique is used to date foot prints? James Webb has made me want a little more depth on scientific assumes. Great bidei
You'll have to google it but it involves carbon dating of the pollen at the same level as the footprints. There were at least 2 studies. The first was a few years ago and peer review criticized it because the pollen may have absorbed modern carbon from water over the years. the 2nd study was published 6 or so Months ago and is said to be more robust.www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/study-confirms-age-oldest-fossil-human-footprints-north-america#:~:text=In%20September%202021%2C%20U.S.%20Geological,21%2C000%20and%2023%2C000%20years%20old.
@@TheWestisBig awesome thank you
@@TheWestisBig awesome thank you
I was on a Honda 350. Traveling about with an 8" SW ... Alone. Cortez Colo. kids said meet us to party at Hovenwehp . It was Sept and school was back in and the road was empty when I ran out of gas . I spotted a Hogan fire coming over the ridge and the Indian man was living alone in a Hogan . He's he had some gas to spare . So as the sun was setting I pulled into the campground. I was alone .... I thought ... Then I swilled some beer smoked a fattie and lay down with my pillow being that Smith and Wesson . X. Marine ...you really don't want to mess with me I have an inch on Hulk Hogan and can bench press my motorcycle and I'm armed with the heavy duty . As I went to sleep on the picnic table I could have sworn I heard children giggling . Sunrise and two Indian girls are wiggling my big toe . Hurry up silly you'll be late for breakfast .. brave girls . They left alive and running towards the berm and ran behind it about 70m SW of my position . So I grabbed my leather and hung it on my shoulder and with the leather vest and boots I must have looked like a giant hells angel lumbering about . Then I saw the Tuba City High School bus and about two dozen Indian princesses . I introduced myself . I am Bill Aubles step son David . Their teacher stepped up and said your step father is well known to every Navajo tmyou are welcome bring your gun for snakes and spend the day exploring with us . Now ...who is Bill Auble ? And how did one white man earn the life long respect of these shy and private people ? Well 1966 the Navajo Code.was declassified . Prescott Courier editor Jim Garner handed mom an envelope and said go find this Bill Auble ...He is literally the Crocodile.Dundee of the reservation . So mom was single found her man and just like the movie .... She married him... This meant we were Navajo family. We are all Masons and secrets are safe here .. they loved it. We got to see all the stuff white folks don't see . Met the people white folks don't meet . We went to all the places white men don't go . Wow wow wow wow . ! Do I have a great respect for the human beings . The Dineh ...Hastien Yahze ..pretty good all right baby ! So an armed man made friends with a wild Indian group of little girls .. I was so honored and boy did we have fun .. I got the personal Indian tour of Hovenwehp buddy that's for sure . From the relatives of those what built it maybe .. I've also made the Yosemite landslide 1994 . We were in south center it wiped out the new and unused north center killed many and injured a bunch . But I said no let's not climb north let's bike south ... That decision is why I'm still writing this silly ... An in natural hole in the clouds followed Rose and I to Vegas Portland down the coast into the SanLuis Obispo fire where on empty and in a wheelchair van a cop steered us from 15 miles away on I-5 straight into the flames eastnof town no power and a CB trucker steered me into the only gas pump and we oassed nothing but fire trucks into LA and back to Phienix . Or 1982 . Sacramento South Florin Road . Member in hand watering the weeds at 6 am or so a B52 winged over and killed.my neighbors horse on the 100 acre tracts . I had 18 men in a farmhouse to evacuate ... Missed is by 100m ... Any questions .? Oh the hole in the clouds remained 2 weeks over PHX as we returned from Yosemite . Wierd huh?
See you the guy i met at Shiprock ?
The Navajo tell a similar story about the Chaco communities. Chaco means place of sadness, because the people there were slavers and cannibals.
thanks
Native American 50K year old fire ring Savana River Georgia. 130K year old mastadon bones near San Diego, CA showing signs of human butchering and fragmented bones from seeking marrow.
Yeah books need to be updated
The words "Yá'át' ééh!" at approximately the 46:47 mark roughly mean "Hello!" or "Welcome!"
Ahh. thanks!
They should hire the native Americans that live in the area to do these tours
you might be surprised how many Tribes don’t wish to share their stories with outsiders. And diff tribes have different versions of history. It’s very complicated
@@TheWestisBig I live in the area. So you might be surprised on how many do wish to share their stories. The old ways of considering people "outsiders" it's not so much anymore. Yet here these tour guides give their opinion on history, who is to say their version is correct. They just make up stuff like the Anasazi possible cannibals. but thanks for your response.
@@AlPha-rl4mp I just watched a Navajo elder on a Navajo channel state exactly that about those people. They were practicing dark beliefs as stated above according to him.
No one really talks about the salt flats in Oklahoma. We have the funky crystals and sand dunes to surf not too far away.
I'm aware of them. But there's not much else around them.
@TheWestisBig the sand dunes aren't too far away. Ppl ride quads and sand surf. Bc of the topography between the 2 you do have to do one and then drive to the next but it's here...just not as popular as the four corners area. It used to be thought that only the Oklahoma salt flats and a place in China were the only 2 places to get the crazy shaped crystals, gypsum I think.
I don’t think it compares well to the gypsum dunes of White Sands NP
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You were so close to newspaper rock in the Southern. Canyon lands National park Whose entrance is not that far from Cortez and Valley of the ancients
I saw newspaper rock in petrified forest
@@TheWestisBig Different one. The big famous newspaper rock is on the way to Moab up. Whatever root it is. I believe it is US 89 In Southeastern Utah, and there is a road that goes to the Southern portion of the Canyon. Lands National Park with some interesting things to see and some neat little boxed. Canyon ranches that are private.
Hmm I'll have to go there- once I figure out where it is.
@@TheWestisBig also, seek out BUTLER WASH cliff ruins, and hike above the waterfall a bit,, lovely fertile flats below the fall, overlooked from the dwellings..
Very cozy
@@TheWestisBig google or YT search it.
FYI: the name is pronounced: Hey mez, with the accent on the first portion of the name “Hey or Hay” mez..
thanks! that’s helpful
I believe in the future they will find out that the first humans actually started in this area.
Maybe I always wondered why everyone was so sure people migrated to the USA and not vise versa
What about the other side of the lake at the same elevation? Could you start fishing around in their hours areas? You know what I'm saying. I think it's possible you could come across even more. I'm not joking with you seriously. No jokes. Try it. I bet you come up with something😅
Chaco Canyon Trails all laid to Chaco Canyon it's with our Stories.
thanks for the comment
what is interesting on things closed in Sept 2024 in Mesa Verde... the whole western loop. Yet trying to find tickets on internet for tours over there... entering by dates ? Gee that far view visitor ranger thingy is abandoned...
Hmm. wonder why
Far View bottom looked like the water damage. tiles coming off the floor as you walked on them. @@TheWestisBig
the Wetherill was closed due to a re-pave and adding kiosks. They changed the tours page for fall. but summer had a dwelling closed for collapse... didn't say if for rock or wall?
“No Dogs Allowed on trail” Does that include credentialed service dogs?
probably. you heard the Ranger say Dogs cause damage and stress local wildlife who can’t tell the difference between a certified service dog and a regular pet. btw- the blind lady made it up the rocky hill without one.
Call each park to double check.
Repeating the Old Narative! 😅 Your video looks So Nice, please dig deeper beyond the Programed Narative
why don’t you spend 100s of hours and lots of money on your version of whatever you think is lacking!? I assume you’re incapable of thought, effort and expense.
they weren't just living on corn that whole place was a lush garden after the flood,i dare to say that that whole area was a pre-flood habitation that they built on ,an advanced culture from thousands of years ago.
I found Mesa Verde by accident during a thunderstorm in 1987.
that's the great thing about of road trip
T shaped doors for somewhere to sit?
the T shape was also carved into pots. they think it meant something significant. also at Chaco the T shapes were only on doors which lead to the outside- that seems to have changed at Aztec. hmm ??
looks like a giant OUTDOOR AND INDOOR MARKET AND SWAPMEET
The chaco place likely was.
We just sent tens of BILLIONS of our tax dollars to foreign countries, but we have to pay a fee to visit our own historic sites. Welcome to America.
Congrats, we have been powned.
Ok, I'm a child. Did you see the baseball uniforms? Big initials...F.U.
Fort Union I know but still....
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_Jemez,_ not _"Jeméz."_ Sounds like "hem this" without the "th."
_Acoma,_ not _"Acooma."_ Homophonic with "a coma".
The "escarpment" at Petroglyph is actually named "El Ceja"; the NPS employee should have known this. Today, there are four sites (new one opened within a week of this comment).
the "Navajo Name" is pronounced "yah'-ought'-eh", where an apostrophe is a hard glottal stop, similar to the almost silent T when you use "mat" in a sentence. Yá'át'ééh means "hello" (lit. "all is well").
Thanks for the tips! Hmm I'll go to the site to learn about the new section.
@@TheWestisBig Thank _you._ This was one of the more enjoyable vids I've watched in a while.
Great! Thanks for letting me know
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Thanks for the kind comment!