Unav-Nuquaint: Little Springs Lava Flow Ethnographic Investigation

• Main Authors: Van Vlack, Kathleen, Stoffle, Richard W., Pickering, Evelyn, Brooks, Katherine, Delfs, Jennie
• Other Authors: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona
• Language: en_US
• Published: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona 2013
• Subjects: Southern Paiute; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Arizona Strip; Cultural Landscape; Little Springs Volcano; Pilgrimages
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/302850

This is a study about a very unusual place and the innovative American Indian ceremonial response to an event that uniquely occurred at this place. The place, defined here as the Uinkaret Volcanic Field, was always culturally important to Indian people for ceremony. The place is so covered with evidence of past volcanic activity that one can think of it as a place to go to talk with and experience volcanoes. This seems according to Indian testimony to have been its primary purpose for thousands of years before the event.