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Carrie Cannon

Carrie Calisay Cannon is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, and also of Oglala Lakota and German ancestry. She has a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and an M.S. in Resource Management. If you wish to connect with Carrie you will need a fast horse; by weekday she fills her days as a full-time Ethnobotanist with the Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, by weekend she is a lapidary and silversmith artist who enjoys chasing the beautiful as she creates Native southwestern turquoise jewelry.

  • The bottom three-quarters of the image is filled with a view of the planet Earth, mostly in grays and blues, with lots of clouds. At the top, set in the blackness of space, is the bright yellow sun.
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: Milankovitch Cycles
    Carrie Cannon
    Over 100 years ago, a scientist theorized that three of Earth’s longer cycles could explain long-term climate changes. These are called the Milankovitch cycles.
  • The Chiricahua Mountains are one of many sky islands stretching across southern Arizona. From this view, the Dragoon Mountains on the other side of Sulphur Springs Valley also rise up like an island from the sea of grass.
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: Sky Islands
    Carrie Cannon
    The Southwest is well known for its deserts, but coniferous forests exist, especially in rare regions known as “sky islands.” These are isolated mountain ecosystems that reach 6,000 feet in elevation or more, surrounded by a sea of desert.
  • A black and white photograph of a man in overalls with dark longish hair looking at a painting of a Native American man.
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: Kiowa Artist T.C. Cannon
    Carrie Cannon
    T.C. Cannon is considered one of the most talented Native American artists of the 20th century. His skills ended abruptly in 1978 after a car crash, yet his large body of accomplishments in a short period continue to influence new generations of Native artists.
  • The assembled skeleton of a mastadon with large curling tusks on display inside a museum.
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    Earth Notes: La Brea Tar Pits
    Carrie Cannon
    Nowhere in the world can you visit an urban ice age exhibit taking place in real time, except the La Brea Tar pits of Los Angeles. It's known for the massive ice age megafauna animals trapped within the unsuspecting tar.
  • Three brown-and-white horses stand together in shallow water, two drinking and one with his head turned toward the camera.
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: The Changing Narrative of the American Horse
    Carrie Cannon
    Ancestors of present-day horses originated in North America and spread around the world from there. But, according to the archaeological record, they were absent from the continent since the end of the Pleistocene some 10,000 years ago until Europeans re-introduced them.
  • Traditional Pueblo adobe houses with ladders
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: America's Oldest Towns
    Carrie Cannon
    When you think of our Nation’s oldest settlements, stories of Plymouth Rock, Jamestown or Albany may come to mind. Yet America’s oldest towns are actually right here on the Colorado Plateau — Oraibi in Arizona and Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico.
  • A lettuce-looking plant with very long filaments clings to a rocky slope beneath sheer desert cliffs
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: Southwestern Ringstem
    Carrie Cannon
    You’ve likely heard of the Venus fly trap, a subtropical botanical carnivore that traps flies in its leafy jaws! But the Grand Canyon has its very own insect entrapping plant, too.
  • Five dancers with elaborate crown-like headdresses and bare, white-painted torsos dance in a line on pavement surrounded by a circle of onlookers
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: Bullroarers
    Carrie Cannon
    If you have ever had the fortune to witness an Apache Crown dance or watched the 1986 movie Crocodile Dundee, you may have heard an indescribable sound made by a curious device known as the bullroarer. The bullroarer has been used by cultures worldwide as a ritual musical instrument and for communicating over great distances.
  • A tall rugged mountain peak against a blue sky has a lobe of grey material moving downslope
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: Rock Glaciers
    Carrie Cannon
    Most people think of a glacier as a large white mass of snow and ice. Yet some glaciers actually form beneath debris. These are known as rock glaciers.
  • Photograph of a Havasupai Indian woman, Yunosi, carrying a "Kathak" or basket on her back, ca.1900. She is wrapped in a brightly patterned blanket or cloth under which she wears a patterned dress. A strap around her forehead supports the large conical basket hanging on her back. She is standing in profile facing her right in front of a crude dwelling constructed from sticks and foliage. A gourd[?] and blankets are at her feet. A blanket with a zig-zag pattern hangs, bunched up, from the side of the structure.
    Earth Notes
    Earth Notes: Tumplines
    Carrie Cannon
    Backpackers are always searching for newer, more efficient ways to carry heavy loads. Yet tumplines, a textile placed over the forehead to carry a load on the back, have been an important tool for over a millennium. In fact, with correct posture, the use of the head to carry weight can actually be more efficient, functional, and safer than our contemporary techniques.
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