#devilstower — Public Fediverse posts

The 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind features Devils Tower National Monument. Encounters of a different kind have been occurring there for millennia, as a sacred site of American Indian communities for generations. The Lakota people know it as Mato Tipila, or Bears Lodge, a holy site. They regularly make pilgrimages there, where they perform rituals and leave offerings.
#DevilsTower #movies #NativeAmericans #pilgrimage #SacredWonderland #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Devils Tower, 2009
This summer road trip was mainly about climbing, but I always packed my camera. We climbed a great route on the Tower, and I took this shot the next day. It’s not perfect, but it marks the moment when photography started to take hold.

#DevilsTower #ClimbingLife #LandscapePhotography #RoadTripUSA #MastoPhoto #roadtrip

Still summer 2009. 10,000 miles across the western US in just seven weeks — a wild mix of discovery, climbing, hiking… and photography. Most of the pictures weren’t that great, but this road trip gave me the spark. A camera in hand, a car, and a tent — it was the perfect starting point.

#photography #landscapephotography #wildlifephotography #roadtrip #usa #nationalparks #sunset #deathvalley #rockymountains #sequoia #devilstower #naturelovers #hikingadventures #oliviersteinerphotography

📜 New Substack Drop:
Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
Four poems for four moments in American myth—
💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/gold-stone-diamond-and-ink

#ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

📜 New Substack Drop:
Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
Four poems for four moments in American myth—
💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/gold-stone-diamond-and-ink

#ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

📜 New Substack Drop:
Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
Four poems for four moments in American myth—
💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/gold-stone-diamond-and-ink

#ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

📜 New Substack Drop:
Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
Four poems for four moments in American myth—
💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/gold-stone-diamond-and-ink

#ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

📜 New Substack Drop:
Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
Four poems for four moments in American myth—
💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/gold-stone-diamond-and-ink

#ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

📜 This Day in History – September 24, 1906

Teddy Roosevelt designated Devils Tower as the first U.S. National Monument.
A big rock. A bold move. A love letter to the wild.

You made Trudeau proud, Teddy—
with your jaw set firm, your laugh so heady.
But most of all, you made us see
the wild was worth its sanctity.

The first of many marks you made—
a monument to what won’t fade.

#ThisDayInHistory #TeddyRoosevelt #DevilsTower #PublicLands #NaturePoetry #EshuElegbara

@mmiasma
Just down the road.
#Wyoming
#RoadTrip
#DevilsTower

It wasn't July 4, exactly, on the calendar...but it should have been. A summer's eve near the very center of the United States, providing the most sublime version of nature's fireworks the world has to offer...

My own capture of a "Storm rising at Devil's Tower".

#art #photography #clouds #cloudscape #sublimelandscape #landscape #sky #skyscape #summer #thunderstorm #supercellthunderstorm #AmericanWest #Wyoming #DevilsTower

Found this at work this morning and my brain, in Richard Dreyfuss ’ voice, said: “This is important. This means something.” 😂👽🛸 #closeencountersofthethirdkind #devilstower #royneary #richarddreyfuss #stevenspielberg

Found this at work this morning and my brain, in Richard Dreyfuss ’ voice, said: “This is important. This means something.” 😂👽🛸 #closeencountersofthethirdkind #devilstower #royneary #richarddreyfuss #stevenspielberg

Found this at work this morning and my brain, in Richard Dreyfuss ’ voice, said: “This is important. This means something.” 😂👽🛸 #closeencountersofthethirdkind #devilstower #royneary #richarddreyfuss #stevenspielberg

Found this at work this morning and my brain, in Richard Dreyfuss ’ voice, said: “This is important. This means something.” 😂👽🛸 #closeencountersofthethirdkind #devilstower #royneary #richarddreyfuss #stevenspielberg

Devils Tower from Entrance Station, Devils Tower National Monument #NPS #NationalParkService #DevilsTowerNationalMonument #DevilsTower

Some of the most sacred places for American Indian nations are located in national parks, but access to their holy ground continues to be contentious. Though the National Park Service has gradually become more responsive and cooperative, full recognition of Indigenous sacred places is still a long way off.

#Alcatraz #DevilsTower #MountRushmore #Pipestone #NationalParks #NationalParkService #NativeAmericans #nature #religion #spirituality

https://www.sacredwonderland.us/native-american-holy-ground/

#silentsunday #photography #devilstower #wyoming #landscapephotography

#DidYouKnow: #DevilsTower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River.

Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/63f8bb59d0db6440e066476e

@WTL
I was delighted to get to the actual location, decades after watching the movie! I was so fascinated with #DevilsTower. My campground, where this photo was taken, showed the movie every night. I didn't actually enter the National Park, even though I have a pass, since it's sacred First Nations territory.

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Was inspired to post this memory from my trip out west last June.

#DevilsTower #NaturePhotography #Landscape #Wyoming #ScenicView #NaturalWonders #TravelPhotography #AltText

#3DPrint update. My #EiffelTower print turned out so well I decided to print another one to keep on my shelf and use as a foreground prop for #photography.
Recently the #EnterpriseD won my Mastodon poll for my next big prop replica. I didn’t know how I was going to do it. The Thingiverse STL file has a solid interior, I’ll have to hollow it. I knew I wanted lights in it / on it, I had no idea how I was going to do it. So I did what we all do: put it to the side.
So the next print, it’s on the printer now, is #DevilsTower from #CloseEncountersoftheThirdKind. I thought I’d paint it to make it look like stone, add some scale model shrubbery. But wouldn’t it be cool if there were a huge spaceship hovering over it? There’s no STL files of the mothership but I still kept going. Watched a video on the miniature effects and one of the tricks they used was painting over transparent so lights shone through. Ah ha! Boom, Enterprise D. Now I had some direction. #3DPrinting #PropMaking

#StandingStoneSunday #DevilsTower #Sunrise
#Ancient tools have been found atop the massive basalt mountain, a site revered by and climbed by #NativeAmerican people today.
#MatoTipila 44.591,-104.7152
Also in WY, #BigHorn stone circle. 44.82617,-107.92156
I was unimpressed by the hypothetical #alignments:
http://www.jqjacobs.net/blog/bighorn.html
#Wyoming #camping #archaeology #StoneCircle

#StandingStoneSunday #DevilsTower #Sunrise
#Ancient tools have been found atop the massive basalt mountain, a site revered by and climbed by #NativeAmerican people today.
#MatoTipila 44.591,-104.7152
Also in WY, #BigHorn stone circle. 44.82617,-107.92156
I was unimpressed by the hypothetical #alignments:
http://www.jqjacobs.net/blog/bighorn.html
#Wyoming #camping #archaeology #StoneCircle

#StandingStoneSunday #DevilsTower #Sunrise
Ancient tools have been found atop the massive basalt mountain, a site revered by and climbed by #NativeAmerican people today.
Also in WY, #BigHorn stone circle. I was unimpressed by the hypothetical #alignments:
http://www.jqjacobs.net/blog/bighorn.html
#Wyoming #camping #archaeology #StoneCircle

#StandingStoneSunday #DevilsTower #Sunrise
#Ancient tools have been found atop the massive basalt mountain, a site revered by and climbed by #NativeAmerican people today.
#MatoTipila 44.591,-104.7152
Also in WY, #BigHorn stone circle. 44.82617,-107.92156
I was unimpressed by the hypothetical #alignments:
http://www.jqjacobs.net/blog/bighorn.html
#Wyoming #camping #archaeology #StoneCircle

#StandingStoneSunday #DevilsTower #Sunrise
#Ancient tools have been found atop the massive basalt mountain, a site revered by and climbed by #NativeAmerican people today.
#MatoTipila 44.591,-104.7152
Also in WY, #BigHorn stone circle. 44.82617,-107.92156
I was unimpressed by the hypothetical #alignments:
http://www.jqjacobs.net/blog/bighorn.html
#Wyoming #camping #archaeology #StoneCircle