Walking through the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center , the word exceptional  kept arriving uninvited. The pottery — technically astonishing, functionally precise, artistically alive. The runners who carried diplomatic messages across vast distances speaking multiple languages between nations. The architectural ingenuity. The oral traditions, stories, and knowledge transmitted intact across centuries. Exceptional , I kept thinking. Exceptional, exceptional. What an exceptional cu

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