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The Plateau Postcard: Spring 2025

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The Plateau Postcard is the official newsletter of the Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Network. In this issue, we highlight the exciting and new scientific journal put out by Petrified Forest National Park, interview our newest partner about their efforts to track white-nose syndrome in regional bat populations, discuss special food diets while working in the field, and share our latest publications and 2025 field schedule.

Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

Charles Hall Museum and Heritage Center

Type: Place

This non-profit history museum features interpretive panels and maps that tell the story of over 3000 North Carolina Cherokee prisoners in several detachments who camped and walked through Tellico Plains on the first leg of their journey to live in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Visitors can view display cabinets of stone and clay tools and relics the local Overhill Cherokee used for farming, cooking, hunting, weapons and games.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Xunaa Shuká Hít (Huna Ancestors' House)

Type: Place

Xunaa Shuká Hít—roughly translated as "Huna Ancestor's House"—is the first permanent clan house in Glacier Bay since Łingít villages were destroyed by an advancing glacier over 250 years ago.

Grand Canyon National Park

Tusayan Pueblo Site and Self-guiding Trail

Type: Place

The pueblo site and self-guiding trail are open Thursday through Friday, from 9 am to 4 pm. Located 3 miles (4.8km) west of Desert View Watchtower, the site is a small Ancestral Puebloan village showing the outlines of rooms and a round kiva. Visitors can walk a relatively flat 0.1 mile (200 m) self-guiding trail around the site. Visit the Native American Artisan Market with authentic and beautiful arts and crafts for sale. The adjacent museum is CLOSED until further notice.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Charles Robinson

Type: Person

Charles Robinson was the third Keeper stationed at the Sleeping Bear Point Life-Saving Station. He had ancestral ties to the Odawa people, as his grandparents were of Odawa heritage.

Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

Museum of the Cherokee People

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Museum of the Cherokee Indian is a Certified Site for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. The museum is dedicated to sharing the history and culture of the Cherokee people.

Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park

Winston Churchill

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His fame grew to the point that in 1899, the British Winston Churchill wrote to the American writer of the same name, praising his novel and promising to always use “Spencer” as his middle name to help prevent confusion going forward.

Pecos National Historical Park

Pecos Mission Church

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Pecos National Historical Park

The Pecos Pueblo

Type: Place

Grand Canyon National Park

Desert View Watchtower

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Desert View Watchtower Retail Store (View Room) is open daily: 8 am to 6 pm. The upper floors of the tower are open, when staffing allows, from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. The last tower access is at 5:00 pm, with the stairs closed for the day at 5:30 pm. A ticket system admits 25 people with a 20-minute time limit. A National Historic Landmark, the Watchtower was constructed in 1932.The design by Mary Colter is based on Ancestral Puebloan architecture found in the southwest.

Grand Canyon National Park

Park Store at the Visitor Center - Grand Canyon Conservancy

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Hours of Operation —Open 8 am to 7 pm daily. Located on the south side of Grand Canyon Visitor Center Plaza, adjacent to parking lot 4. This large store features books, maps, apparel, souvenirs, and gifts to help you plan, or share your trip to Grand Canyon with friends and family back home. A large variety of publications provide in-depth information about the canyon's geology —as well as natural and cultural history.

Gender and Sexuality in Native America: Pueblo of Acoma, NM

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In what is now the mesa-top Pueblo of Acoma, men with effeminate physical attributes or personal tendencies were known by many names including mujerado, qo-qoy-mo, and kokwina. They dressed and lived as women, had relationships with men, and fulfilled women's roles in the community. Much like today's queer culture, mujerados of Acoma appear to have experienced varied levels of cultural acceptance.

Gender and Sexuality in Native America: Many People, Many Meanings

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Research indicates well over 100 instances of diverse gender expression in Native American tribes at the time of early European contact. The cultural legacy of these people was nearly erased by religious indoctrination and the imposition of laws criminalizing varied sexuality and gender expression. This erasure makes discovering and discussing such a diverse heritage difficult; in many cases, the only remaining record is that of the colonizer.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Cathay Williams

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Cathay Williams became the first African American woman to enlist in the U.S. Army; she posed as a man, enlisting under the pseudonym William Cathay.

National Mall and Memorial Parks

Dupont Circle

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Located at the intersection of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire Avenues in Northwest Washington, DC, Dupont Circle has served as the anchor of a neighborhood of diplomats, government officials, war commemorations, and the LGB community for over 200 years.

Old Santa Fe Trail Building

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The iconic building located in Santa Fe, New Mexico is a masterpiece of Spanish Pueblo Revival architecture. The building, known as one of the largest secular adobe buildings in the United States, was constructed in the 1936-1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmark. The building not currently open to the public.