We leaned out all available windows and hollered and waved down the pickup. This was our introduction to the casino, small, friendly, and with all the expected computerized sounds and blinking lights of one-armed bandits plus a restaurant. Having already gambled on a spare tire and lost, we saved the casino for another day and caught a ride back to our motel in Cortez on the casino shuttle. They can go places fast and used to fly-overseas and back in less than a day. If a skin walker walks on your grave, your leg will ache.
Skin walkers wear a lot of jewelry and paint up their faces.
If you recognize a skin walker, he will die. Sarah's people and the Lopez brothers', the Navajos and Utes, are now the dominant Native American cultures in the land of the Anasazi. Whether or not the Utes were here doing battle with the Anasazi in 1250, we're pretty sure they were here about 1450. The white man's relentless land grabs finally pushed the Utes into what is now the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation that wraps around the southern part of Mesa Verde National Park and extends westward into Utah. Navajos live in Cortez because it's one of the few towns of any size near Navajo reservation lands in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.