IXITLAN

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IXITLAN

• Geography

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• IXITLAN  Map Activity
• Rivers/Lakes Amazon R, Columbia R, Mississippi
  R, Mackenzie R, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan,
  Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario
• Mountains Andes, Rockies, Appalachians
• Deserts Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran, Atacama
• Others Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Tenochtitlan,
  Serpent Mound, Tikal, Angel Falls, Chaco Canyon,
  Monument Valley, Bear Butte, Niagara Falls

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Columbia river http//www.youtube.com/watch?vo8e
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Pacific Northwest Potlatch

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?viM8rHprFz8Y
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Surfing http//www.youtube.com/watch?vohz4kpB4fbE

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Waterfall http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4UJCrb9m
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ANDES

• Massive mountain system extends from the tip of
  South America all the way to Panama.
• Source of most major rivers on the continent and
  is 4,500 miles (7,240 km) in length.
• Home to some of the planet's largest volcanoes,
  and in the far south along the coast of Chile,
  large ice sheets are commonplace. The Andes
  highest point being Aconcagua in Argentina, at
  22,384 ft. (6,960m).

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Aconcagua
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GUIANA HIGHLANDS

• Stunning part of Planet Earth, over 1,000 miles
  in length, the Highlands stretch from southern
  Venezuela across the northern edge of South
  America to the tip of Brazil.
• Vast plateau, one marked by deep gorges, tropical
  rain forests, numerous rivers and waterfalls
• Famed for the highest waterfall in the world
  (Angel Falls) at 3,212 ft (979m) high.

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Angel Fallshttp//www.youtube.com/watch?voBsfqlv
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The Amazonhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vT3bPaUQj
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• the largest tropical rain forest in the world,
  and running through its heart is the Amazon
  River, and its more than 1,000 tributaries, seven
  of them more than 1,000 miles in length.
• Rising high in the Andes, the river's network
  irrigates almost half of the continent, and in
  terms of volume of water discharged into an
  ocean... it's the largest in the world.

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Amazon River
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Atacama Desert
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Rocky Mountainshttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vq_v
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Kayak http//www.youtube.com/watch?vBkDr00qdK3Y
plane http//www.youtube.com/watch?v2pu65c0G2ZU
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Honu http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6F1Epw4r
OK8 lightening http//www.youtube.com/watch?v
R1dJ0_daaTkpanoramic http//www.youtube.com/watc
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Bear Butte

• Is a important landmark and religious site for
  the Plains Indians tribes
• Bear Butte is called Mato Paha, or Bear Mountain,
  by the Lakota
• To the Cheyenne, it is Noahvose, the place where
  Maheo (God) imparted to Sweet Medicine the
  knowledge from which the Cheyenne derive their
  religious, political, social, and economic
  customs.
• The mountain is sacred to many indigenous
  peoples, who make pilgrimages to leave prayer
  cloths and bundles tied to the branches of the
  trees along the mountains flanks. Other
  offerings are often left at the top of the
  mountain. The site is associated with various
  religious ceremonies throughout the year. The
  mountain is a place of prayer, meditation, and
  peace.
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Sundance

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Medicine Wheel
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Medicine Wheel Sites
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Bighorn Medicine Wheel
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• Members of the Crow tribe, who have long used the
  Medicine Wheel for rituals, ascribe its creation
  to a boy named Burnt Face. According to the
  story, the boy fell into the fire as a baby and
  was severely scarred.
• When Burnt Face reached his teen years, he went
  on a vision quest in the mountains, where he
  fasted and built the medicine wheel. During his
  quest, he helped drive away an animal who
  attacked baby eaglets. In return, he was carried
  off by an eagle and his face was made smooth.

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• For centuries, the Bighorn Medicine Wheel has
  been used by Crow youth for fasting and vision
  quests.
• Native Americans also go to Bighorn to offer
  thanks for the creation that sustains them,
  placing a buffalo skull on the center cairn as a
  prayer offering.
• Prayers are offering here for healing, and
  atonement is made for harm done to others and to
  Mother Earth.

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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtDRIpPYo0Ro
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• Chaco Canyon, located in Northwestern New Mexico,
  is the center of a network of roads built by the
  Anasazi.
• These have been referred to by some as spirit
  lines, because of their astonishing engineering.
• The roads stretch from one community to the next
  in absolutely straight lines, not deviating
  according to the contours of the land.

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Monument Valleyhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vAdU
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• Dineh Mythology
• Changing Woman, Child Born of Water Monster
  Slayer
• Beauty Way

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• White in the east represents White-Shell Woman
• Blue in the south represents Turquoise Woman
• Yellow to the west represents Abalone Woman
• and Black to the north represents Jet Black
  Woman.

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• Mount Blanca (Tsisnaasjini' - Dawn or White Shell
  Mountain)Sacred Mountain of the Eastnear
  Alamosa in San Luis Valley, Colorado

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• Mount Taylor (Tsoodzil - Blue Bead or Turquoise
  Mountain)Sacred Mountain of the Southnorth of
  Laguna, New Mexico

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• San Francisco Peaks (Doko'oosliid - Abalone Shell
  Mountain)Sacred Mountain of the Westnear
  Flagstaff, Arizona

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• Mount Hesperus Dibé Nitsaa (Big Mountain Sheep) -
  Obsidian MountainSacred Mountain of the NorthLa
  Plata Mountains, Colorado

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Serpent Mound
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• Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent
  mound in the United States.
• Nearly a quarter of a mile long, Serpent Mound
  represents an uncoiling serpent. The head of the
  serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset
  and the coils also point to the winter solstice
  sunrise and the equinox sunrise.
• The Serpent mound is the largest effigy mound in
  the world.
• The Cherokee relate the legend of the Uktena, a
  large serpent with supernatural appearance and
  power

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Theory

• The carbon dating attribution of 1070 coincides
  with two significant astronomic events The
  appearance of Halley's Comet in 1066 and the
  light from the supernova that created Crab Nebula
  in 1054.

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• The Serpent mound is the largest effigy mound in
  the world.
• The Cherokee relate the legend of the Uktena, a
  large serpent with supernatural appearance and
  power.

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Niagara

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vcKm8Rb7-5Jc

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• The Niagara Falls, or Nee-ah-gah-rah (Thundering
  Waters)  are the most sacred waters of the
  Iroquois people, and a focus of many of their
  legends and myths.
• For centuries, the Iroquois believed that the
  sound of the waterfall was the voice of the
  mighty spirit of the waters. Until the mid 18th
  century, they sought the favor of the Water
  Spirit by sacrificing a maiden to the Falls each
  year - sending her in a white canoe decorated
  with fruits and flowers over the brink of the
  falls. To be sacrificed was the greatest honor,
  and insured special gifts and happy hunting
  grounds in the afterlife. 

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Tikalhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vVHgYSh-EIzE
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Tikal Ruins

• The ruin is part of the Mayan Biosphere Reserve
  and is the only region of the world that is
  declared by UNESCO as both Cultural and Natural
  Patrimony of Humanity.
• The 10 square mile ruin features 3, 000 temples,
  shrines, ceremonial platforms, residences, ball
  courts, terraces, causeways and plazas.

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Aztec Ruins
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Tenochtitlan
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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vt4AvpgQ3zR0