cmaracing
Full Member
- Mar 30, 2012
- 148
- 70
- Detector(s) used
- AT Pro, Garrett PP.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Yanito's gallery is filled with beautifully crafted contemporary pieces -- traditional blankets and bowls, sand paintings and jewelry, most of it handmade by Yanito's extended family. There are no prehistoric pots or arrowheads. Yanito wouldn't dream of entering a ruin.
"The cliff dwellings are ALL grave sites and everyone knows that," he says. "The dead should be left alone."
Yanito, son of a medicine man, grew up in a traditional hogan on the nearby reservation where he still lives. He knows the history of the region as well as anyone, how "pot-hunting" began in the late 1800s when a Colorado rancher discovered the Anasazi ruins in Mesa Verde....
Such arguments strike Yanito as hollow. He believes that all ancient artifacts, ruins and burials -- including those on private lands -- should be left undisturbed. He points to the example of a well-known Santa Fe dealer, Forrest Fenn, who owns and is privately excavating an entire pueblo settlement on his land. (Fenn's home was raided as part of the investigation, though he has not been charged.)
Why should he be entitled to these things, Yanito asks. Who gives him that right?
Why should someone think it is OK to dig up and sell an ancient menstrual cloth, he continues, his voice filled with disgust. "That is pure evil."
Yanito picks up the flute and starts playing, a slow, haunting, Navajo tune about living in harmony with nature, about living in harmony with each other. There is no harmony when there is looting, Yanito says, after he finishes.
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As a sign of solidarity and to help out our Colleague, I at this time would like VOR to return all he has found that belong to my Ancestors. since he believes that all should stay buried.
No, history is meant to be discovered and the archaic rules that let a house be built on a property but god forgive me if I dig a hole, history is destroyed every day around the world, I see us as warriors preserving history, o yea how many casinos where built on sacred ground, visit FOXWOODS to see lol.