#FiveSentenceFiction: Memories #Wupatki National Monument #NativeAmerican

We stood, silent, our eyes fixed on the painted desert: then you talked to me in the tongue of your ancestors, it was suddenly as if we were transported in time. Children played on the circular ball ground, parents laughed, you spoke with them. I saw the house, as it was then, in its splendour, full of happy people. A joyful little troop came back from the fields, carrying basketfuls of corn cobs…

https://honoratus20018.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/fivesentencefiction-memories-wupatki-national-monument-nativeamerican/

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Peering into a room at the Lomaki and Box Canyon Pueblos (12th century), Wupatki National Monument, AZ.

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A view of #wupatki national monument, where I lived as a kid & just completed a month long artist in residence

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They Were Here First

Today is Indigenous Peoples Day, marking a day to reflect on and celebrate the people of America, who, quite literally, were here first and are still here, to this day.
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The remains of a residential wall at the Lomaki and Box Canyon Pueblos, Wupatki National Monument, AZ.

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Sunset at Wukoki Pueblo ruin, within Wupatki National Monument, near Flagstaff, Arizona. The entire structure had 6-7 rooms, with a 3 story tower. This is one of many ruins in the park built by the Ancestral Puebloans / Anasazi around 1182-1225. The nearby Wupakti ruin has a circular ballcourt, similar to those found much further south from mesoamerican cultures.

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I was a #nationalparkservice brat, & spent some formative childhood years at #wupatki national monument in northern AZ. I still hold the place close, & visited yesterday w my parents.

I haven’t written much about that time or place, but published one piece from a couple years ago here: https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/geographies-of-justice/ascents-and-descents-the-struggle-continues/erica-watson/

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