The Cultural Heritage of the Great Sage Plain To
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Surrounded by snow-capped mountains, a vast plateau streaked with numerous canyons stretches from Cortez, Colorado, northwestward into Utah. A productive agricultural region today, the Great Sage Plain displays numerous ruins of an ancient civilization that puzzled the earliest European explorers but echoes today in its living Native American descendants. For the past hundred years, archaeologists and Native people have collaborated to paint the picture and tell the story of the vibrant culture that once thrived here.
