Canyon de Chelly National Monument

Download or read book Canyon de Chelly National Monument written by Scott Thybony and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 1997 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.