Daily Field Notes #163

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Geography: Fjallsarlon Glacier Beach - Iceland

Original post by Hive account@greddyforce

Have you ever been to an arctic and icy beach? Doesn't matter, in this post I'm going to take you to Fjallsarlon. This place is located at eastern Iceland, not far from the town Hof. Its a part of the Vatnajökull national park. There are many huge glaciers nearby which produce melting water and this melting process creates lakes to the bottom part of the glaciers. Fjallsarlon is also called a lagoon. In that lagoon, you can see bigger and smaller icebergs that calve from the edge of the glacier and float around in the lake. If you have extra money to spend there then you can take a short boat tour around the lake. We didn't do it due to lack of time but I can imagine that this would be p...

Anthropology: What's Wrong With The Term Anasazi, You Might Ask?

Original post by Hive account@eaglespirit

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After quite a few requests from some of my fellow Steemians during one of my recent posts about my ancient ancestors, there was a bit of a fuss over my discontent with the word . You can find my post , and see the comments. My statements seemed to get some folks in a tizzy so I mentioned that I would think about writing a post and try to find "proof" regarding how my people, the and many other tribes feel about this derogatory word. I'm touching on a few facts regarding the feelings about the people in this area because I'm doing quite a bit of writing lately on my month long excursion into the...

History: Authentic Indian Cowboys

Original post by Hive account@janton

Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas, home of several native Indian tribes in times past, most notably the great Caddo Nation which were located in our very area before the federal government moved them into the Oklahoma Indian Territory. I did a series on their rise and fall and rise again. But today I wanted to talk a little more about Indian cowboys because of the oxymoron in terminology which that causes lol. Many people didn't know there WERE such a thing and yet Indian cowboys were a consistent percentage of the great Cattle Drives heading North from Texas for some 20 years.. normally each crew had at least one Indian drover among them and many photos I ...

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