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Show 9 emergency medical technician. Even if she had to do it on her ovin, Janey was determined to learn the skills she would need in protective work. But there were times when her determination wavered. "Up to a certain point I felt that I could do it and I wanted to show that I could, but I vias almost convinced at times that I vias making a big mistake." Summer arrived, bringing visitors viho toured the Indian ruins of Mesa Verde. For six hundred years, from 600 AD to 1200 AD, Mesa Verde Indians had lived on table-top mesas in that southwest corner of Colorado. Then they abandoned the mesas to move their homes high into the cliffs, vihich must have been an enormous job. Yet they remained in the cliff dwellings for only another hundred years. For reasons vihich are still not explained but probably had to do viith drought, the Indians disappeared from Mesa Verde after 1300 AD, leaving behind more than 800 dwellings containing well preserved artifacts - pot shards, baskets, animal snares, even the mummified body of a baby girl. When white men discovered the area in 1888, they dug carelessly through the ruins, destroying many priceless artifacts and taking others to sell. To protect this important part of American history, our government created Mesa Verde National Park in 1906. Most of the Indian ruins are closed to the public because the passage of $. centuries has left them structurally delicate. The ones which the public may visit have been stabilized - extra concrete added here and there so that visitors who walk over them won't break them dovin. The main job of the park rangers was to keep people away from the ruins |