Canyon de Chelly National Monument

• Author(s): Scott Thybony,
• Publisher: Western National Parks Association
• Pages: 14
• ISBN_10: 1877856630
  ISBN_13: 9781877856631
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Earth Sciences / Geology , Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest , Travel / United States / West / Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY) ,

Description:... Cliffs of red sandstone form the canyon the Navajo call Tseyi (meaning in the rock) in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona. Ruins of elaborate stone villages tucked into cliff-side alcoves testify to a thousand years of habitation by the ancestral Puebloan Indians. Today, the canyon is home to the Navajo, as it has been for centuries. One of the most popular and dramatic sites in the Southwest, Canyon de Chelly helps preserve both the ancient history of the ancestral Puebloan and the contemporary culture of the Navajo.