Perspectives

Navajo Canyon at Mesa Verde

The Salt Lake Tribune has a good article, taking the recent pothunting arrests in Blanding as a starting point, about the attitudes of various southwestern tribes toward the looting of artifacts.  The focus is mainly on the Navajos and includes an extended interview with a medicine man, but Hopi and Ute perspectives are mentioned as well.  I don’t have much more to add except that the article is quite accurate and a good source for a little more background on the context of the Blanding cases than has been provided in most media accounts so far.  Definitely worth a look.

Shiprock and Beclabito Dome from Beclabito, New Mexico

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