Anasazi Trail

Epilogue to Ancient Civilizations tour
Prologue to 2000 Faces of America
A complete three week mini-tour, where Rob, Harrison and Amanda visited many of the ancient Anasazi cities in the Southwest to learn about the earliest Americans.

Cahokia Mounds
Collinsville, IL

Cahokia Mounds State Historic and World Heritage Site is a 2,200-acre site preserving the central section of the largest prehistoric Indian city north of Mexico.

Dancing Leaf Earthen Lodge
Wellfleet, NE

1000 years ago, Pawnee ancestors lived on the Great Plains in earthen lodges like this one, recreated by Les & Jan Hosick.

Pueblo
Taos; Bandelier, NM

Mille Lacs Ojibwe Museum
Mille Lacs, MN

A small, but very informative museum about the Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indians.

Waswagoning
Lac du Flambeau, WI

After an interesting visit at Mille Lacs, we stumbled across the real thing, a recreation of an Ojibwe village, and an interesting owner.

Iroquois Museum
Howes Cave, NY

We learned a few surprising facts about the Iroquois, and Native Americans in general, at this small museum.

Cherokee
Cherokee, NC

Over 500 years ago, 25,000 Cherokees lived and roamed freely on land now covering eight eastern states. Invasion and settlement by Europeans robbed these people of their land, their traditional way of life, and the lives of thousands of their loved ones.

Sitting Bull Memorial
Mobridge, SD

He became famous for his victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn, but Sitting Bull was an even greater spiritual leader of the Great Sioux people.

Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee, SD

It took a tragedy like the Wounded Knee Massacre to put an end to the US Governments persecution of the Native Americans.

Porcupine Powwow
Porcupine, SD

A Celebration of culture, identity, community and pride. We visited a powwow in a small community on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse, SD

Inspired by Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial is a tribute to all Native Americans, and its creator.

United Tribes International Powow
Bismarck, ND

Rain cut it short, but we still enjoyed the powwow.

500 Nations:An Illustrated History of North American Indians by Alvin M. Josephy, Alvin M.

The companion book, video series and music to our tour.

This expertly documented and filmed series helped guide us on our studies. Rob and Susan recognized how incomplete, and sometimes just plain wrong, our childhood education of the Native Americans was. It caused us to ask a great many more questions.

500 Nations Audio Soundtrack
by Peter Buffet

Great movie music with the sensitivity and intensity of Indian songs. Of course, excellent rythm.

500 Nations
Video Series

1. The Ancestors
2. Empires of the Sun
3. Clash of Cultures
4. European Expansion
5. Cauldron of War
6. Loss of the East
7. Struggle for the West
8. The End of Freedom