Sunset Over Black Mesa
NPS Photo/ R. Henry
Canyon de Chelly National Monument is located in the center of the Navajo Nation in Northeast Arizona. The Navajo Nation is the largest reservation in the United States encompassing 27,000 square miles of land in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Traditional homelands of the Navajo are bounded by four sacred mountains, and Canyon de Chelly is considered the heart of Navajoland by many, and it was the last strong hold for the Dine/Navajo people during the war with the United States Military in the 1860s.
Today, Navajoland is still home to more than 300,000 Navajo People, and the landscape is some of the most beautiful areas of the Southwest.
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