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The ancestors of today’s Hopi and Zuni Indians witnessed the eruption.

In some Hopi accounts, the Qa’na Katsina caused Palatsmo (Sunset Crater) to erupt after people engaged koyaanisqatsi, a life out of balance. For Hopi people, Palatsmo is a living reminder: if people stray from their religious ideals and lifeway, there may be another eruption.

In Zuni traditions, stories of the eruption were carefully guarded because of the belief if people continually dwell upon negative events those events will happen.

Regardless of our worldview, places like Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument help us to better understand each other and the forces that continually affect our lives.

Introduction to the Trail

Our Dynamic Earth

The Birth of a Mountain

A Complicated History

Curtain of Fire

Life and Landscape Transformed

As Powerful as a Volcano

One Volcano Amid Many

San Francisco Peaks

Ropes and Clinkers

Why are Volcanoes Here?

An Explosive Past?

Miniature Volcanoes

Surface Currents

Survival in Extremes

Changes to Come

Power to Symbolize

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Author: Jamie Frees, Northern Arizona University Anthropology Laboratories

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