A bulldozer in the Mimbres Valley in New Mexico looting an ancient Mimbres Indian Village prior to passage of the 1989 New Mexico Burial Bill protecting unmarked graves.

One of the many Ancestral Puebloan sites in Chaco Canyon on Chaco's "main street."

A Ute Indian altar at a Ute site in the Colorado River Valley. Note the water and sage.

Ancient Indian -rock cairns along the Columbia River on the Washington side.

White River National Forest, Colorado, Indian Camp Pass. An historic Ute corridor.

Two granite memorials from the Storm King Fire in 1994 that killed 14 firefighters on BLM land near Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

The Smoking Place, historic cairns at a Nez Perce Indian sacred site in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho once visited by Lewis & Clark.

An ancient Ute Indian bison hunting blind on the Flat Tops Mountains in the White River National Forest, Colorado.

Ute Indian consultant Kenny Frost at ancient vision quest sites on the White River National Forest.

Ute Indian Kenny Frost at an ancient Ute altar on BLM lands in western Colorado.

View of the White River National Forest near the Ute Trail.

Magnificent Mimbres Indian rock art of a hunter telling a story at the campfire with his desert bighorn carcass behind him. Pony Hills Rock Art Site, Deming, New Mexico.

Broken Mimbres bowls recovered from a pothunter's cache, Silver City, New Mexico.

Cases of arrowheads from a New Mexico pothunter recovered by the FBI.

Big Horn Medicine Wheel, an ancient sacred site at least 1,500 years old in northern Wyoming.

Sacred mesa near Zuni Pueblo where Zunis hid from the Spanish who returned in 1692 after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Zuni, New Mexico.

Historic Ute Indian eagle catching trap on a high cliff above I-70 and the Colorado River.

Sunset House, a prehistoric, defensive Ancestral Puebloan site in SE Utah.

A corner window in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico.

Tree House, an ancient Ancestral Puebloan site in Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park, Colorado.