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A teacher was telling me today that she was in Amarillo this weekend at a place similar to Mesa Verde. She said Indians actually live there. I didn't get to get any details from her. Anyone know what she was referring to?


Honestly, it sounded as if maybe she attended some sort of re-enactment or celebration or something and thought it was real? She said, and these are her words, not mine, that it is all kept quiet, no video cameras are allowed, etc. She was saying it was in a valley and that they actually lived there, but in the cliffs.


I will try to get more details from her tomorrow. She is from another country herself....maybe that caused the confusion????

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Makes you proud of the folks teaching today, doesn't it?


EDIT: A lot of the posters think she must have attended a program at the Kwhadi Kiva and gotten real confused. The same Kiva we've been discussing in Places to feed boy scouts in Amarillo

[This message has been edited by CanyonAg77 (edited 3/28/2007 9:15a).]

The Kiva definitely isn't in a valley. She might've been out at Alibates, though.

There are some cliff dwellings along the Canadian River to the northwest of Amarillo.

I think they are on private land and fairly well protected.

[This message has been edited by eric76 (edited 3/29/2007 2:52p).]

One good place to look would be on the topographic maps on www.terraserver.microsoft.com. Start from Boys Ranch and work west.

If I remember correctly, I found the cliff dwellings marked on there years ago. But I think that the maps they have now are not the same as then.

Another possible source would be the original edition of "The Roads of Texas". I'll look for my copy. I think that things like that were removed from the later editions, probably at the request of the landowners.

[This message has been edited by eric76 (edited 3/29/2007 2:57p).]

If you go back and read the follow-up, the original confused person was not from the U.S.

She was at the Acoma Pueblo, not the Amarillo Pueblo.

So she hadn't visited the cliff dwellings on the Canadian River, then?

From what I've heard, there isn't even a road going to them, so I wondered if that was it.

I've never heard of cliff dwellings in the Canadian. Are you saying they are like Mesa Verde, with pueblos built into the cliff face?

I know there were pueblo type dwellings near Perryton, the famous Buried City. But I've not heard of cliff dwellings.

Now its pretty common to have cliff shelter areas...where early men sheltered in natural overhangs/caves.