The Hunter Panel

“the world’s longest art gallery”

• Nine Mile Canyon

runs southwest

to northeast

starting about 20

miles from

Wellington.

• Nine mile canyon

was constructed

in 1886 by the

Buffalo Soldiers

of the 9th

Cavalry

Regiment linking

Fort Duchesne to

the railroad

through the city

of price.

• 1,000 rock art sites in the canyon with

more than 10,000 individual

petroglyphs

• Petroglyphs are carvings or

inscriptions on a rock• Hundreds of pit-houses, rock

shelters, and granaries. • Many of which are located high

above the canyon floor on cliff ledges, pinnacles, and mesas.

The Fremont was present in

Nine Mile Canyon possibly as

early as 300 AD to 1250 AD

Fremont is actually a catch-all

term used to describe scattered

groups of hunters and farmers.

They practiced agriculture, growing corn, and

squash along the canyon bottom.

The Great Hunt

Noble Fremont Shaman

Fremont Shaman Ceremony

The Utes, Paiute, and Shoshoni

Indian Chief on

Horseback Ute Indian Petroglyph

This legacy on stone is unique and irreplaceable

Current Issues and Dangers Important deposits of minerals

and other geographical

resources have been

discovered complicating

issues..

Natural Gas exploration creates

high levels of industrial truck traffic

producing clouds of dust that settles

on the rock art obscuring it from

view.

What can we do to help?• Donations

• Memberships fees

– Monies can all go towards efforts in preserving these archeologist sites.

• Getting Involved –making our voices heard to those that can make a difference!

Science Fair Project – We will be displaying all our

Native Art work that we have done in class to help

promote donations to Nine Mile Canyon.

What we plan to do!

Assignment:

Persuasive Paper on why

you want to see these

archeologist sites saved.

Description of Cultures in

the Nine Mile Canyon

1 to 2 pages!

How it benefits you in

having these site

preserved.

1 to 2 pages!

All papers will be sent to

the BLM (Bureau Land

Management)

Referenceshttp://www.joevenusartist.com/Images/Fremont-Shaman-Ceremony-sm.jpg

http://www.cnha.org/photos/areas/ninemilecanyon.jpg

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=fremont&view=detail&id=E6E8FB2514E428FECD0B034655A65BE6E7617014

http://www.utahoutdoors.com/nine-mile-canyon/images/chief-horse-1.jpg

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1346/1047248490_91dbab20b2_z.jpg

http://climb-utah.com/Misc/ninemile.htm

http://www.ninemilecanyoncoalition.org/about/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Mile_Canyon