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Navajo National Monument

Navajo National Monument, administered by the National Park Service, contains three large prehistoric Anasazi Indian cliff dwellings constructed between 1200 and 1300 A.D. Keet Seel, with over 160 rooms including six kivas, is the largest cliff dwelling in Arizona; ...

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Navajo National Monument

Navajo National Monument is located within the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The site is composed of three prehistoric cliff dwellings and their surroundings, set into the natural sandstone canyons of the region. The sites are located on the Colorado ...

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Tuba City, Navajo Nation

Tuba City is located in the western portion of the Navajo Reservation in Coconino County, Arizona. As early as 1776, Fray Francisco Garces visited the area and encountered Native Americans farming the land. A group of Mormons originally laid out ...

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Chinle Navajo Nation

Located in Apache County on the Navajo People Reservation, sits a small but notable town of Chinle. Chinle is named after the Navajo word meaning “at the mouth of Canyon De Chelly.” Historically, Navajo Nation extended between the four sacred ...

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National Historic Landmark - Navajo Nation Council Chamber

The Navajo Nation Council Chamber, Window Rock, Arizona stands today as a symbol of the New Deal revolution in federal Indian policy during the 1930s, advocating reconstitution of tribal organizations, restoration of tribal land base and promotion of traditional Indian ...

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Navajo Nation

According to the 1868 U.S.-Navajo Treaty, the Navajo Nation comprises 27,000 square miles of reservation branching into the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The area is larger than ten of the fifty states in America, and today contains ...

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