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VILLAGE OF MANY NATIONS
Native American
Cultural Center
a NON PROFIT
organization
Now taking reservations for the 2010 season
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The Village
of many Nations
is part of Cave Lakes
Canyon Adventure Resort
That was once occupied by
ancient
Anasazi Indian (see History)
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Sleep in a TiPi
Memories that will last
a lifetime
Sleep in Comfort
1 to 14 people |
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Navajo Hogans
Sleep 1 to 6 people
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Entertainment nightly
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<Petroglyph Classes
Horseback riding> |
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Spend some time on Sacred Ground
Utah Trails (Village of Many Nations)
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A Native American Cultural
Center
non profit organization
see also
www.villageofmanynations.com
Located at Cave Lakes Canyon Adventure
Resort,
5 and 1/2 mile from Kanab Utah on Hwy 89
on the left just past Moki Cave (coming from
Kanab).
A LEGEND REBORN,
sharing our future, while preserving the
past.
If you are the type of person who would
enjoy
sleeping in an authentic
hand painted tipi
with incredible Native American Decor,
or would like to visit the Navajo Hogan
and learn from the Navajo about their great
culture,
or visit a Paiute Indian Village
and be taught about a people
who were taught to nurture and protect the
land.,
you must give us a visit !
Come and meet Dr. Harris, a scholar in
Ancient Alphabet writing,
Let him share with you the stories of the
Ancient Ones found in
what we call Indian Rock Art that can still
be found
in the Canyons of this area.
We also have a native American Indian show
nightly at 7:30 p.m
This is a must see on your visit.
Drumming, dancing, storytelling,
right in the middle of our Village of Many
Nations
Don't forget to stop by the Mountain Man
area
and hang out for a while, they have stories
to share.
Native Americans tell us that this land is a
Sacred Ground,
they still feel its heart beat.
Come visit us
we will help you experience this land as it
once was.
An Exiting Destination
Walking tours Daily - $ 5.00
per person 10am to 7pm
see our website
Utahtrailsresort.com
info@utahtrailsresort.com
toll free: 1-800- 871 -6811
or : 435-619-5936
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The center
consist of a Lakota Village with 24
tipisa
shade structure, four fire rings, a
sweat lodge and a medicine wheel.
The Navajo Village will have
seven Hogan,
a sweat lodge, a shade structure, or
no oven and a garden
The Paiute village will have four
wickie-ups,
a shade structure, bow and arrow and tomahawk
throwing.
The Mountain Man Village
will have four wall tents, craft classes,
herb classes, survival classes, costume rooms, large
fire ring and a garden.
Entertainment nightly
All overnight Guest will get an overall tour and
an evening show
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Indian Nations in
Southern Utah
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Yellow-orange
represents Southern Paiute. The Paiute tribe of Utah
includes five bands, each with their own landbase in
southwestern Utah. San Juan Southern Paiute is the
other federally recognized Paiute tribe in Utah.
Their homeland lies in southeast Utah and northern
Arizona, although they currently hold no reservation
land. The Paiute Tribe of Utah chose to present the
broader Southern Paiute Nation in the exhibit and
included the San Juan Southern Paiute, Kaibab, Moapa
and Las Vegas Paiutes in their narrative.
Turquoise
represents Navajo. The Navajo Nation is the largest
reservation in the United States. Its northern edge
(the "Utah Strip") lies along the southeastern
border of Utah.
Red represents Ute.
There are two federally recognized tribes of Ute
Indians in Utah at the present time, those residing
at the Uintah-Ouray reservation in northeastern Utah
(the largest reservation in the state), and those at
White Mesa Ute Council near Blanding, Utah (an
outlying
community of the Ute Mountain Ute
Reservation in Colorado).
Blue represents the
Northwestern band of Shoshone Tribe. Today the
Northwestern Band of Shoshone Tribe has a small parcel of reservation land in northern Utah, near
its border with Idaho.
Green
represents Goshute. There are two federally
recognized tribes of Goshute, the Confederated
Tribes of Goshute living at Ibapah, on the
Utah/Nevada border, and the Skull Valley Band of
Goshute at Skull Valley, Utah.
Reference.umnh.utah.edu
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Medicine Wheel
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A much-enlarged reproduction of artist Dallin
Maybee's Medicine Wheel depicts an ancient symbol
used by native people throughout the Americas.
Many concepts are expressed within the circle and its four quadrants: the
four cardinal directions, the four winds, the four
elements, the four parts of a human being (mental,
physical, spiritual, and emotional), and other
relationships expressed in sets of four.
Maybee made this image for the cover of Forrest
Cuch's excellent book, Utah's American Indians.
It celebrates the indigenous people of Utah--
the mountain-plains cultures (Ute and Shoshone),
the desert cultures (Goshute, Paiute, and
Navajo),
as well as the ancient Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)
and Fremont
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The
Sun Wheel (Medicine Wheel), which exists all
over the Earth, presents insights into the
evolution and history of mankind through a
better understanding of the cycles of
nature. It is a very important part of our
ongoingness. In the study of nature and its
many patterns, the Medicine Wheel is
duplicated in everything. It is constructed
with stones, each one representing a part of
the universe
This
pattern is symbolized by a circle or wheel,
with directional spokes. The spokes
demonstrate the natural progression of the
stages of life as it spins in a full cycle.
The pattern of the wheel can be applied in
all our life situations where cyclical
movements exist. Each spoke of the wheel
tells us exactly where we are, both
psychologically and physiologically, from
where we have just come, and to where we
will go next
The word medicine does not refer simply to
healing as it does to western man. Anything
that promotes harmony with all creation is
medicine. An illness was not so much a
disease, rather, it was a disharmony in the
soul of a person. In presenting the Animal
Medicine Wheel it is important to realize
that the reading is about coming into
harmony with the natural flow of life's
changes, which does not necessarily require
a medical ailment.
The wheel teaches us to
be respectful of all life and emphasizes
that each step we take on our beloved Earth
Mother, must always be a prayer.
The wheel teaches us
that all aspects of the wheel intricately
interact with all other aspects of the
wheel. We are not alone but are part of the
whole.
The wheel teaches us to
break the illusion of separateness and to
see ourselves as necessary parts of the
whole. No one cell is any less important
than the next, for it takes all cells to
create the whole. You cannot have a forest
without the trees. This does not take away
from the uniqueness of the individual;
rather, it allows the individual access to
the strength and resiliency found only in
the whole.
Life is a cycle, a cycle
is a circle, and in a circle, all things
return to where they began.
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Reference.umnh.utah.edu
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