You don’t mean to say thay indigenous peoples weren’t at one with the earth? Perish the thought!
The problem began when their halfrican leader shut the parks down to punish the average inhabitants for not wanting to spend their children’s inheritance.
I was very surprised when I visited the lava fields north of Flagstaff from active volcanoes 950 years ago.
SUNSET CRATER NATIONAL PARK
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Crater
Chaco Canyon is one place I never visited when I lived in New Mexico. We always had our young children in tow, and I’m not sure they would have enjoyed that destination. I always wanted to go there.
"Did a group of thirteenth-century Japanese merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography.
Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan."