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Category: Notes

  • Satan Butte, Navajo Nation

    ”Satan Butte has a long and storied reputation among Navajos. One legend says that there is a giant serpent that lives inside the butte and comes out from a hole at the top. This made the butte a restricted area for Navajos in the past – a time long before the Long Walk. If your…

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  • La Letiche, Louisiana

    Being a fan of cryptozoology, I was intrigued by the creature of Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana.

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  • New Orleans

    Reading EA Hanks’ The 10 and revisiting some of the same cities. Her writing is taking me deeper into my own trip to New Orleans, which happened a few years before hers.

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  • Moomat Ahiko

    “Breath of the ocean” in the Tongva language (Shoson). The Tongva people have lived in what we call the Greater Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years. Their ancestral home stretched over 4,000 square miles, with the sacred centre in today’s Long Beach. They explored the Pacific coast in their sewn plank canoes called ti’at.…

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