"Where in North America?" --- Section VIII

[Mark Sedenquist]

... what is this, and where can it be found?

Photo: Don Casey

Maybe we need another clue?
Like how big this is....?

The states are listed instead of stars in the order that they became states, but I still don't know what this is....

[CalOldBlue]

but a closer view of part of it; this should help:


Photo: Don Casey

[Mark Sedenquist]

I must be blind, but that doesn't help me at all.

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

... are written on the stripes (the white are easier to read than the red, but both have "writing" on them)?

Another hint: Megan has been here, if my memory of an earlier photo credit is correct.

[Twilight]

Found it with the close-up (with a search of the artist's name):

It's in the National Museum of the American Indian. It's made of beads by the artist Jenny Ann Taylor (Chapoose), Uinta Ute (You can kinda read the name at the corner of the blue. http://americanindian.si.edu/searchc...81491&regid=52

Originally, I thought that the names in the stripes were rivers, as the few I could read easily were prominent rivers, instead of tribe names.

[CalOldBlue]

The stripes contain an alphabetical list of tribes.

The blue field contains (in addition to the already noted list of states in order of entry, plus year of entry) the following quotes:

1) The original version of the Pledge of Allegiance (and author's name)

2) “Some day the Earth will weep, She will beg for Her life, She will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when She dies, you too, will die.”
--John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota, 1932

3) "We are born free and united as Brothers, each as much a great lord as the other. I am the master of my body; I dispose of myself and do as I wish. I am the first and the last of my Nation subject only to the Great Spirit."
Huron 1693

4) lastly, a disclaimer by the artist

[jayree]

Here's another easy one.

What is the name of this Mountain?
Where is it located?
What is it's significance?


Photo by: Jerry Kendrick

Jayree.

[Peter Thody]

I think we may need a clue or three!

Peter

[Foy]

Here's another easy one.

What is the name of this Mountain?
Where is it located?
What is it's significance?


Photo by: Jerry Kendrick

Jayree.

It's Yucca Mountain.
It's in western Nevada.
It's the site selected for long-term storage of nuclear power plant waste fuel.

Foy

[jayree]

The peak is not in Nevada, but it IS in the western US. Here is another photo showing an adjacent peak that may help identify this one.


Photo by: Jerry Kendrick

Jayree