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Native American Experience
Go Back in Time and experience how Native Americans lived in the Verde Valley. There are five different heritage sites in and around the Sedona/Verde Valley where you’ll be able to see petroglyphs and cliff dwellings dating all the way back to 1100 AD. Each site has an intriguing story that will just amaze you. When you walk the sites its not hard to envision the hardships that the Sinagua tribe endured in their lifetime. It’s also very easy to see that they were very smart in the way they built their community and supported one another. Palatki/Honanki Heritage Sites (1150-1350 AD) – These two sites are considered sister sites and the largest cliff dwelling sites in the Red Rock area. Honanki (Badger House) and Palatki (Red House) are Hopi names given to these sites even though the Hopi did not live here. The V Bar V site is known as the largest and best-preserved petroglyph sites in the Verde Valley. There are over 1000 petroglyphs on this site. Tuzigoot Heritage Site is one of the largest villages in the area and built on top of the hillside. The last known evidence of Sinagua occupation for any site comes from Montezuma Castle, a limestone cliff dwelling that is a 65-room structure that was believed to be built by the Sinagua women between 1100 and 1350 CE.
The Sinagua were a resilient, resourceful, and culturally diverse people who inhabited the forests, canyons, grasslands, and deserts of central and norther Arizona from about AD 600 through AD 1450. The Sinagua economy was based on a combination of hunters and gatherers. They foraged for and used amaranth, ricegrass, cactus fruit, beeweed flowers and cattails for flour. Sunflowers, hackberry fruit, yucca, wild grapes, walnuts, pine nuts and acorns were also important sources of food. Early Sinagua sites consist mostly of large pit houses and besides ceremonial kivas, their pueblos had large “community rooms that featured ballcourts and walled courtyards. Several Hopi clans trace their ancestry to immigrants from the Sinagua culture, who they believe left the Verde Valley for religious reason. Other tribes that have cultural, linguistic, and historical connections to the Sinagua people were the Pima, Tohono O’odham, Yavapai and Zuni Tribes.
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