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Been moving the polished furniture in from the garage, actually getting the house in better order finally - what, after only 14 months. Finally got a dresser in my room, the antique bed, dresser, etc in the guest/grandkid room, blinds to replace the towels over the top half of the windows in my room, booby pic & mirror on the wall. Packing for the family trip.
Leaving at sunup with my daughter's family to drive to the far side of New Mexico, to tour the oldest continuously inhabited city in North America, an Ice Cave in the desert, other geological features left from the forming of the continental divide, the sprawling Chaco Canyon Amerindian Anaszi settlements where civilization started in the continent's southwest - abandoned before Columbus, to Los Alamos - where atomic bombs have been produced since WWII, but for the scenic forest and one more Anasazi pueblo before the home run. A long sentence to sum up a long trip...
I think the Zuni nation is the only surviving Amerindian people we will actually encounter, altho we may meet some Navajo? It's interesting to me that the world famous Navajo do not call themselves that - as it's ancient Spanish for "sheep herder," a roll they had imposed on them by the conquering Spanish invaders. They call themselves "The Dine," a two syllable word meaning "The People." We'll never know what the Anasazi called themselves - a word in their language for the people as well, probably. Anasazi is a Dine word for "ancient enemy" as the Dine had to conquer the surviving nations when they migrated in to conquer the area.
I'll be online an hour or two evenings, but mostly dail-up and shared with my daughter, but I'll see y'all around.
(Yeah, I could be wrong on any of my facts. See Anasazi )
Leaving at sunup with my daughter's family to drive to the far side of New Mexico, to tour the oldest continuously inhabited city in North America, an Ice Cave in the desert, other geological features left from the forming of the continental divide, the sprawling Chaco Canyon Amerindian Anaszi settlements where civilization started in the continent's southwest - abandoned before Columbus, to Los Alamos - where atomic bombs have been produced since WWII, but for the scenic forest and one more Anasazi pueblo before the home run. A long sentence to sum up a long trip...
I think the Zuni nation is the only surviving Amerindian people we will actually encounter, altho we may meet some Navajo? It's interesting to me that the world famous Navajo do not call themselves that - as it's ancient Spanish for "sheep herder," a roll they had imposed on them by the conquering Spanish invaders. They call themselves "The Dine," a two syllable word meaning "The People." We'll never know what the Anasazi called themselves - a word in their language for the people as well, probably. Anasazi is a Dine word for "ancient enemy" as the Dine had to conquer the surviving nations when they migrated in to conquer the area.
I'll be online an hour or two evenings, but mostly dail-up and shared with my daughter, but I'll see y'all around.
(Yeah, I could be wrong on any of my facts. See Anasazi )
