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Ruin is defined as “the physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.” This abandoned, ancestral Puebloan site is within view of the paved road, hence the name. Use of “ruin” perpetuates the myth that Indigenous people are not here anymore. Modern Puebloan peoples consider such sites occupied by ancestors spirits.
Image: Joe Shlabotnik (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 / flickr)