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Dowa Yalanne (Zuni: "Corn Mountain") is a steep mesa 3.1 miles (5 km) southeast of the present Pueblo of Zuni, on the Zuni Indian Reservation.Plainly visible from the Zuni Pueblo, the mesa is located in McKinley County, New Mexico, [3] and has an elevation of 7,274 feet (2,217 m).
The Zia Sun Symbol is featured on the New Mexico flag. The Zia regard the Sun as sacred. Their solar symbol, a red circle with groups of rays pointing in four directions, is painted on ceremonial vases, drawn on the ground around campfires, and used to introduce newborns to the Sun. Four is the sacred number of the Zia and can be found repeated ...
The Sandia Mountains (Southern Tiwa: Posu gai hoo-oo, Keres: Tsepe, Navajo: Dził Nááyisí; Tewa: O:ku:p’į, Northern Tiwa: Kep’íanenemą; Towa: Kiutawe, Zuni: Chibiya Yalanne) [1] are a mountain range located in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, immediately to the east of the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
The New Mexico Environmental Department reports that Gulf "dewatered three aquifers through a series of groundwater withdrawal wells installed in the 1970s." Later Gulf engaged in a corporate merger with Chevron Resources Company to extract 675,000 tons of uranium ore which left behind 698,000 tons of radioactive tailings on the surface. [ 1 ]
Julyan, Robert (2006), The Mountains of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-3516-6 Lekson, Stephen H. (2004), "Architecture: The Central Matter of Chaco Canyon", in Nobel, David Grant (ed.), In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma , School of American Research Press, pp. 23–31 , ISBN 978-1-930618 ...
Pueblo of Isleta (Southern Tiwa: Shiewhibak [ʃiexʷibʔàg], Western Keres: Dîiw'a'ane [tîːwˀa̤ʔane]; Navajo: Naatoohó [nɑ̀ːtxòːxó]) is an unincorporated community and Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established in the c. 14th century.
Macaw Pens at Paquimé, Chihuahua. The distinct facets of Mogollon culture were recorded by Emil Haury, based on his excavations in 1931, 1933, and 1934 at the Harris Village in Mimbres, New Mexico, and the Mogollon Village on the upper San Francisco River in New Mexico [8] Haury recognized differences between architecture and artifacts from these sites as compared with sites in the Hohokam ...
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. The 533-acre (2.16 km 2 ) national monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt through executive proclamation on November 16, 1907. [ 3 ]