American Indians of the Pikes Peak Region (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738548470)

Thousands of years before Zebulon Pike's name became attached to this famous mountain, Pikes Peak was home to indigenous people. These First Nations left no written record of their sojourn here, but what they did leave were stone circles, carefully crafted arrowheads and stone tools, enigmatic petroglyphs, and culturally scarred trees. In the 1500s, Spanish explorers documented their locations, language, and numbers. In the 1800s, mountain men and official explorers such as Pike, Fremont, and Long also wrote about these First Nations. Comanche, Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Lakota made incursions into the region. These nations contested Ute land possession, harvested the abundant wildlife, and paid homage to the powerful spirits at Garden of the Gods and Manitou Springs. Today Ute Indians return to Garden of the Gods and to Pikes Peak each year to perform their sacred Sundance Ceremony.

Author: Celinda R. Kaelin, Pikes Peak Historical Society
ISBN-10: 0738548472
ISBN-13: 9780738548470
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2008
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.54w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 64