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Montezuma's Castle
The Cliff Dwelling and Pueblo Ruins at Montezuma Castle where built into a section of sandstone overlooking the Verde River Valley. The sculpture by removal and early adobe brick laying has been preserved by the sheet rock overhang and the dry climate of the past millennia.
Built 1250 A.D. by the Senegua Tribe who inhabited the lands in the Verde River Valley; the hunter gatherer tribe planted and stored crops in sealed stash houses in the desert foothills above the valley. They where defending their food supply when they vanished to the east following years of drought.
East to The Rio Grande’, follow the rivers, follow the lightning, follow the rain, for with rain there is life and without there is death.
Yavapai Apache Nation
Cottonwood Arizona
July 2016