Traditional Acoma territory was defined through landmarks, namely shrines that have some directional symbolism attached to them. For example, the rainmaker of the north brings snow and lives at Mount Taylor; the rainmaker of the west brings rain and lives in the Zuni Mountains; the rainmaker of the south, who brings drizzling rain, lives at an unknown location; and the rainmaker of the east brings fog and mist and also lives at an unknown location[…].

A fibershed (a term Burgess coined) is a “geographical landscape that defines and gives boundaries to a natural textile resource base, engendering appreciation, connectivity, and sensitivity for the life-giving resources within our homelands.”

They often have no semantic meaning in themselves, though they may affect the semantics of brivla to which they are attached.

Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous.