By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist Pagosa is a Ute Indian word meaning “stinking waters.” It is appropriate that Pagosa Country was named by and for the Ute Indians. When…
By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist We’ve been writing about our neighbors, the Jicarilla Apaches, who were greatly affected by events happening around them in the late 1600s. Jicarilla is…
By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist When Spanish explorers entered the area that was to become New Mexico while searching for gold at the Lost Cities of Cibola, they soon…
By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist We continue writing about the first Hispanic explorers/settlers in Pagosa Country and their relationship with the Jicarilla Apache Indians they found living in this…
By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist An hour south of Pagosa Springs in New Mexico is the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. The Indian Agency headquarters for the Jicarilla Apache Nation is…
By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist We’ve been quoting from an archaeological study of prehistoric human ruins and artifacts found on Chimney Rock by Dr. Frank W. Eddy of University…
By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist Dr. Frank W. Eddy, University of Colorado at Boulder, directed a more recent study of the Chimney Rock Indian ruins during the summers of…
By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist We’ve been writing about the Ancestral Puebloans, previously called Anasazi Indians, who lived in Pagosa Country circa 2,000 years ago. Continuing from where we…
By John M. Notter PREVIEW Columnist Last week, we wrote about information contained in a 1923 report written by Frank H. Roberts based on his study of early residents in…
By John M. Motter PREVIEW Columnist Shortly after AD 1, small bands of Indians entered the San Juan River Basin. Where they came from is uncertain. They may have come…