Econo Lodge Cortez in Cortez CO
Prices: . . . . . . . .. .. ... . . . . Econo Lodge Cortez 2020 East Main Street Cortez CO 81321 The Econo Lodge hotel offers a central location, just nine miles from Mesa Verde National Park. This hotel is minutes from the Anasazi Heritage Center, Ute Mountain Casino, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and the Cortez Cultural Center. Four Corners National Monument, Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Hovenweep National Monument and Telluride ski area are all less than or about one hour away. Take a drive down the Million Dollar Highway, a 75-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 550 between Ouray and Durango, Colorado. A variety of restaurants and shops can be found in the surrounding area. A golf course, driving range and putting green are only two miles away. Hotel amenities and features include: Free wireless Internet access, free continental breakfast and free coffee. Pets are welcome in some rooms, please note that stay fee applies. Guests of the hotel can enjoy the seasonal outdoor heated pool, sundeck and picnic area. Business travelers will appreciate access to copy and fax services. All guest rooms include cable television. Some rooms also come equipped with refrigerators, microwaves, irons and ironing boards. Handicap accessible and non-smoking rooms are available. Laundry facilities are located on the property for guest convenience.
Cortez Mesa Verde Inn - Cortez Hotels, Colorado
Cortez Mesa Verde Inn 2 Stars Hotel in Cortez,Colorado Within US Travel Directory Located one kilometer from downtown Cortez, Colorado, this motel is 7.
1 km from Conquistador Golf Course.
It features spacious rooms with free Wi-Fi.
Free access to a seasonal outdoor pool is provided to all guests of the American Holiday Mesa Verde Inn.
A volleyball court and horseshoe pits are available for recreation.
Laundry facilities and free parking are also available.
A cable TV and clock radio are standard in every room at the Inn of Mesa Verde.
Decorated with southwestern style and carpeted floors, all rooms have air conditioning and a private bathroom.
The Cortez Cultural Center and Centennial Park are both 5 minutes from the motel.
Beny's Diner is just steps from American Holiday Mesa Verde Inn.
Cortez Mesa Verde Inn - Cortez Hotels, Colorado
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Pow Wow In Cortez Colorado 2011
Continuing our Pow Wow and it was enjoyable.
Permission to record and publish the performance was given by the performers. Norman and Romona Roach.
We learned so much about their lives.
Romona made the Jingle Dress Dance look like fun, but it was noisy.
Norman told us how it is the Grandmother's that holds everyone together and played The Grandmother's Song.
The Fancy Shawl Dance started in the 1960's and ofcourse the shawls had some wonderful beaded work on them. Weighing as much as 40 pounds because of the beads.
The Hoop Dance is basicly a skill of making as many formations with the hoops as the dance goes along.
How many forms did you see in this dance?
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Canyons of the Ancients National Park 3 Cortez, Colorado USA Pueblo Anasazi archaeological Music
CANYONS OF THE
ANCIENTS
National Park,
Colorado USA
3
Canyons of the Ancients National
Monument (the Monument)
encompasses 176,000 acres
of federal land administered
by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM).
The Monument is located
in the Four Corners region
of southwestern Colorado,
about 50 miles west of Durango,
10 miles west of Cortez
and 12 miles west of
Mesa Verde National Park.
The Monument was
designated on June 9, 2000
by Presidential Proclamation
to protect cultural and natural
resources on a landscape scale.
The Monument contains the
highest known archaeological
site density in the United States,
with rich, well-preserved evidence
of native cultures.
The archeological record etched
into this landscape is
much more than isolated
islands of architecture.
This cultural landscape contains
more than 6,355 recorded sites
reflect all the physical components
of past human life: villages,
field houses, check dams, reservoirs,
great kivas, cliff dwellings,
shrines, sacred springs,
agricultural fields,
petroglyphs and sweat lodges.
Some areas have more than
100 sites per square mile.
The number of sites is
estimated to be up to 30,000.
The Monument has been
used or inhabited by humans,
including the Northern
Ancestral Puebloan culture
(or Anasazi), for 10,000 years,
and continues to be a
landscape used by humans today.
Historic uses of the Monument
include recreation, hunting,
livestock grazing and
energy development.
Credit NPS
CONTACT THE PARK
Monument Manager:
Marietta Eaton
Anasazi Heritage Center
970-882-5600
Anazazi Heritage
Center
Lowry Pueblo
Hovenweep
National
Monument
Sand Canyon
Trailhead
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Artist Dan Lebowitz
Song Surrender
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Artist MBB
Song Happy
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trac 3
Artist Ikson
Song Dreamer
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trac 4
Artist Ikson
Song AM
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Native Homes And Their Dance, Cortez Co 2011
The drive down from Mesa Verde can be scary because it is steep and alot of twists and turns.
But it was so beautiful that we kept having to stop and take pictures on the way.
When we got back into Cortez we found out about a pow wow to learn about their culture and dances.
The women's dance has very little movement, where the men's dance is all over the place.
Some of their music was rather calming.
For more information on Mesa Verde visitmesaverde.com
About Cortez Cultrure cortezcultrualcenter.com
The Native Dancers - Business contacts only - rroach_2@yahoo.com
Permission to record and publish the performance was given by the performers, Norman and Romona Roach.
Music by Rickvanman
Splashing Around at the Cortez City Pool
Perfect for those sultry summer days, the Cortez City Pool has a splash pad, 125-foot double loop water slide, diving board, and tube slides. It's a great place to cool off when temperatures are high.
Canyons of the Ancients National Park Cortez, Colorado Ancestral Pueblo Anasazi archaeological
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument National Park Cortez, Colorado USA Ancient Ancestral Pueblo Anasazi People archaeological sites Four Corners area
CANYONS
OF THE
ANCIENTS
National Park,
Colorado USA
Canyons of the Ancients National
Monument (the Monument)
encompasses 176,000 acres
of federal land administered
by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM).
The Monument is located
in the Four Corners region
of southwestern Colorado,
about 50 miles west of Durango,
10 miles west of Cortez
and 12 miles west of
Mesa Verde National Park.
The Monument was
designated on June 9, 2000
by Presidential Proclamation
to protect cultural and natural
resources on a landscape scale.
The Monument contains the
highest known archaeological
site density in the United States,
with rich, well-preserved evidence
of native cultures.
The archeological record etched
into this landscape is
much more than isolated
islands of architecture.
This cultural landscape contains
more than 6,355 recorded sites
reflect all the physical components
of past human life: villages,
field houses, check dams, reservoirs,
great kivas, cliff dwellings,
shrines, sacred springs,
agricultural fields,
petroglyphs and sweat lodges.
Some areas have more than
100 sites per square mile.
The number of sites is
estimated to be up to 30,000.
The Monument has been
used or inhabited by humans,
including the Northern
Ancestral Puebloan culture
(or Anasazi), for 10,000 years,
and continues to be a
landscape used by humans today.
Historic uses of the Monument
include recreation, hunting,
livestock grazing and
energy development.
Credit NPS
CONTACT THE PARK
Monument Manager:
Marietta Eaton
Anasazi Heritage Center
970-882-5600
Anazazi Heritage
Center
Lowry Pueblo
Hovenweep
National
Monument
Sand Canyon
Trailhead
Music By
trac 1
song
Distant Lands
artist Hanu Dixit
youtube.com/
audiolibrary/music
trac 2
song
Heading Home
artist Nekzlo
soundcloud.com/nekzlo
trac 3
song
Somewhere
artist
Nekzlo
soundcloud.com/nekzlo
trac 4
song
vacation
artist
scandinavianz
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scandinavianz
trac 5
song
Explore
artist
Ikson
soundcloud.com/ikson
trac 6
song
Chasing Palm Trees
artist
Ehrling
Music by Ehrling
trac 7
song
In the Garden
artist
Silent Partner
youtube.com/
audiolibrary/music
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produced by
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4.20.18
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Native American Dances
The Cortez Cultural Center hosts Native American Dance and music performances six nights a week in the summer.
COLORADO: Hidden Gems of Southwest Colorado Mountains & Mesas (Beyond Mesa Verde in Cortez & Mancos)
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Say HELLO to the Hidden Gems of Southwest Colorado! Join Travel Video Journalist, Juliana Broste, TravelingJules on an action-packed adventure, going beyond Mesa Verde and Durango. We'll discover lesser known experiences in Cortez and Mancos. First up, we'll get our hands dirty on the dig site and learn about archeology at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center. Then, we'll explore the Mancos Creative District and enroll in the The School of the West. Artists show us how to create works of art--whether learning the art of letterpress at the former Mancos Common Press building, or moving metal in a blacksmithing class at Cowboy Forge. Dinners' up at the Farm Bistro in Cortez, a standout farm to table restaurant serving up delicious entrees and Colorado cocktails. Finally, we'll explore the Canyons of the Ancients. This Monument has the highest known archaeological site density in the United States, and evidence of native cultures. All this, and more...only in Colorado!
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Madams of Central Colorado
The women depicted in this presentation were actual madams or prostitutes in the Upper Arkansas Valley circa 1880 to 1950.
Canyons of the Ancients National Park 2 Cortez, Colorado Ancestral Pueblo Anasazi archaeological
CANYONS OF THE
ANCIENTS
National Park,
Colorado USA
2
Canyons of the Ancients National
Monument (the Monument)
encompasses 176,000 acres
of federal land administered
by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM).
The Monument is located
in the Four Corners region
of southwestern Colorado,
about 50 miles west of Durango,
10 miles west of Cortez
and 12 miles west of
Mesa Verde National Park.
The Monument was
designated on June 9, 2000
by Presidential Proclamation
to protect cultural and natural
resources on a landscape scale.
The Monument contains the
highest known archaeological
site density in the United States,
with rich, well-preserved evidence
of native cultures.
The archeological record etched
into this landscape is
much more than isolated
islands of architecture.
This cultural landscape contains
more than 6,355 recorded sites
reflect all the physical components
of past human life: villages,
field houses, check dams, reservoirs,
great kivas, cliff dwellings,
shrines, sacred springs,
agricultural fields,
petroglyphs and sweat lodges.
Some areas have more than
100 sites per square mile.
The number of sites is
estimated to be up to 30,000.
The Monument has been
used or inhabited by humans,
including the Northern
Ancestral Puebloan culture
(or Anasazi), for 10,000 years,
and continues to be a
landscape used by humans today.
Historic uses of the Monument
include recreation, hunting,
livestock grazing and
energy development.
Credit NPS
CONTACT THE PARK
Monument Manager:
Marietta Eaton
Anasazi Heritage Center
970-882-5600
Anazazi Heritage
Center
Lowry Pueblo
Hovenweep
National
Monument
Sand Canyon
Trailhead
Music By
trac 1
Artist NOWË
Song Summer Stories
soundcloud.com/nowemusic
trac 2
Artist NOWË
Song Just Some Melodies
soundcloud.com/nowemusic
trac 3
Artist NOWË
Song Under The Sun
soundcloud.com/nowemusic
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Artist NOWË
Song Save Us
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produced by
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2.26.19
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National Park
Service
credit NPS photos
State of Colorado, Utah USA
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The Bureau of Land Management
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Beatriz Cortez 10 4 018
Beatriz Cortez is a cultural and literary critic, and a visual artist
Born in El Salvador, Dr. Cortez migrated to the United States in 1989. She obtained a Ph.D. In Latin American Literature from Arizona State University (1999) and an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts (2015). She specializes in contemporary Central American literatures and cultures from interdisciplinary perspectives, the construction of memory, and the imaginaries of the future.
She is the author of Aesthetics of Cynicism: Central American Post War Fiction, published in 2010 by F&G Editores in Guatemala. She is co-editor of the third volume of the series Towards a History of Central American Literature, titled Perversions of Modernity: Literatures, Modernities, Displacements, published by F&G Editores in 2012. In addition, she co-edited a special issue of Revista Iberoamericana on Contemporary Central American Cultural Studies, published by the University of Pittsburgh in 2013. She is co-author of the reader Introduction to Central American Studies, published by Kendall Hunt in 2008 and the author of numerous essays on postwar Central American literature and culture.
As an artist, her work explores simultaneity, the existence in different temporalities and different versions of modernity, particularly in relation to memory and loss in the aftermath of war and the experience of immigration, and in relation to imagining possible futures. She has had solo shows at the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles; Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles; the Cerritos College Art Gallery in Norwalk, California; the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park; the Grand Central Arts Center in Santa Ana, California; Tractionarts in Los Angeles; and the Museo Municipal Tecleño (MUTE) in El Salvador. Her upcoming exhibitions include Building as Ever, the California Pacific Triennial at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts (May 6 - September 3, 2017) and Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, part of Pacific Standard Time LA/LA 2017 at UCR Artsblock (September 16, 2017 -February 3, 2018).
During 2016-2017 Beatriz Cortez holds the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists.
This lecture is sponsored by the Sculpture Department
US Highway 160 - Cortez - Mesa Verde - Colorado | Drive America's Highways ????
???? Drive America's Highways on the Trail of the Ancients and the San Juan Skyway (US-160) for 9 miles east from State Highway 145 to the Mesa Verde National Park Visitors Center in Colorado ⛰️
The Trail of the Ancients is a National Scenic Byway located in the states of Colorado and Utah. The route highlights the archaeological and cultural history of southwestern Native American peoples and traverses the widely diverse geological landscape of the Four Corners region. It was the first National Scenic Byway that was designated solely for its archaeological sites. The entire route is approximately 480 miles --Wikipedia
The San Juan Skyway is an All-American Road and a component in the Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway System. It forms a 233.0-mile (375.0 km) loop in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Colorado traversing the heart of the San Juan Mountains. It roughly parallels the routes of the narrow gauge railways: Rio Grande Southern (US 160, SH 145 and SH 62); and the unconnected Ouray and Silverton Branches of the Denver & Rio Grande along US 550 with the Silverton Railroad bridging a part of the gap. Its origin can be traced to the Around the Circle Route promoted by the D&RG. --Wikipedia
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Ute Mountain Tribal Park: Anasazi (Ancient Ones)-Potsherds, Pictographs, Graineries, Cortez, CO
A visit to the Ancient One (Anasazi) - their potsherds, pictographs and graineries and farmlands. A Tour of the Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Cortez, CO with friends from the Boulder County Volunteer Naturalists. Fall 2009. Additional photos and videos of trips and hikes can be viewed at NaturesPix.com and Olfarts.org
Understanding Ute Culture
A summary of the collaboration between the Durango Arts Center, The Southern Ute Tribe, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. The exhibit is available for viewing in the Durango Arts Center's Barbara Conrad Gallery. The exhibit runs from May 4, 2013 through June 15, 2013.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Colorado - Goosenecks State Park Utah
After one and a half months of vanlife around Colorado we made our way towards Utah via Cortez, located on the Southwest corner of Colorado. We planned to explore the stunning Canyons of the Ancients National Monument but due to several days of pouring rain we chose to instead visit the Anasazi Heritage Center, located in Dolores, Colorado. The museum offers a beautiful exhibit with artifacts and tools from the ancient people with education on the Anasazi culture and film documentaries and photo exhibits:
We stayed a couple of days in Cortez to get some work done at the Spruce Tree Espresso House, a cafe with delicious coffee and tea, smoothies and vegetarian and vegan food options as well as free wifi and lots of seating which is a welcoming way to get some work done as a digital nomad.
The small town has a couple of different restaurants and we especially loved the farm to table food at the Farm Bistro:
We were delighted to find a great yoga studio called Heart and Core Yoga Studio where we enjoyed a great vinyasa flow class. After speaking to the teacher who is also a homesteader we met the next day for an interview on sustainable living, check out the interview here:
After a few days in Cortez, we made our way into the State of Utah and visited the incredible Goosenecks State Park, a state park with picnic area and campsites located in Balding UT where we took a hike along the canyon and enjoyed the gorgeous views:
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Mesa Verde Country : Visit Colorado | Best Places to Visit in CO
Discover Mesa Verde Country in southwest Colorado near the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park. Closeby to neighboring Cortez, Mancos, and Dolores, Mesa Verde Country was named the Number One Historic Monument in the World and 50 Places of a Lifetime - The World's Greatest Destinations, Surrounded by the San Juan Skyway and Trail of the Ancients National Scenic Byway the scenic views are endless and will take your breath away! Explore all the Mesa Verde Country has to offer today!
Native American Dancing
Native American Dancing at the Cortez Cultural Center in Cortez, Colorado.
Lessons learned from the Pueblo Indians of the Mesa Verde Region: Mark Varien at TEDxSonomaCounty
Mark Varien currently serves as the executive vice president of the newly established Crow Canyon Research Institute in Cortez, Colorado. Formed as a new initiative in 2014, the Crow Canyon Research Institute seeks to create an institution without walls, breaking down disciplinary barriers and enabling social scientists―archaeologists, economists, geographers, sociologists, and evolutionary psychologists, to name a few―to accomplish two broad objectives: create more detailed, inclusive, and multivocal histories of the many cultural groups who have lived in the greater Southwest, and then compare those histories to others from around the world to better understand how and why cultures change, and to discern how the world came to be the way it is today.
Mark has conducted archaeology throughout the western United States, in Central America, and in the South Pacific. But the primary focus of his research is the Southwest United States. His work in the Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado began in 1979 and continues to the present. He joined the staff at Crow Canyon in 1987, where he served as a research archaeologist (1987−1997), director of research (1997−2007), vice president of programs (2007--2010), Research and Education Chair (2010--2014). Crow Canyon is an internationally renowned institution with a three-part mission: to increase knowledge of the human experience through archaeological research, to conduct that research in the context of public education programs, and to design and deliver those research and education programs in partnership with American Indians.
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One Minute Intro VISTA
Hi, My name is Chayse Romero. I’m an AmeriCorps Vista serving with the Ute Mountain Housing Authority. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of two tribes in the State of Colorado and we believe that housing is a human right. Our mission is to provide affordable housing for local tribal families while recognizing the strong cultural traditions of the Tribe.
My role is to provide project management support, grant writing and research services, assist with events, trainings, and provide support for strategic planning.
Specific initiatives that I will work on is:
-to ensure the completion of our current permanent supportive housing project, which is the first to take place on tribal land in the State of Colorado.
-To build and maintain a formal relationship with many State agencies.
-To assist community conversations in Cortez Colorado (a border town to the reservation) and with local partners regarding a permanent supportive housing project that would be designed to serve Navajo and Ute tribal members.
I am really passionate about this work because I believe that housing is a human right and there is an extreme housing shortage on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation.