PHOTO OF THE DAY November 29, 2005  

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Where Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
When 1976
Photographer Dick Durrance II

"Pueblo Indians for centuries built their terraced villages without openings in the walls, for better defense against enemy tribes; ladders gave access to openings in the roofs. Resisting the white man's influence, many Taos Indians choose to live without telephones, electricity, or running water."

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book The Majestic Rocky Mountains, 1976)


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