{openx:1}The Hohokam Indians first settled a long stretch of the Verde River in central Arizona and were later followed by the Sinagua Indians. The Sinagua are credited with the introduction of stone houses, either in cliff openings, or in freestanding pueblos — it is their dwellings you can see still standing today. Three of their [...]

{openx:1}It is a unique feeling to think that the last person to see a metate (grinding slab) and mano (hand-held rock grinder) still sitting in the metate, was possibly the Native American woman who last used it more than 700 years ago. If you haven’t experienced the thrill of this kind of discovery, then you [...]

The Cameron Trading Post has been providing visitors, travelers and explorers to the desert southwest with needed supplies for nearly a century. In the early days, that meant trading almost exclusively with the Navajo and Hopi Native American Indians for wool, blankets, livestock and dry goods. Today, the Cameron Trading Post is well worth a [...]

Hike to the Sears-Kay Ruins On a windswept ridge, high above a dry streambed, a small band of Hohokam Indians built a community, now known as the Sears-Kay Ruin. Around 1050 AD, these ancient people erected five buildings — with 40 rooms — in which they ate, slept, had children and watched the horizon for [...]