Canyon de Chelly

Canyon de Chelly is of remarkable beauty, and full of cliff dwellings and petroglyphs, testimony to human occupation for millennia. It is at the heart of the Navajo Nation and a place of tragedy, as American military killed hundreds of Navajo, burnt their houses and fields and killed their sheep in order to force them on the Long Walk to a tiny reservation after the Civil War, in the middle of winter. Thousands died…
I visit the South and North Rim lookouts twice each between yesterday evening, this morning and afternoon. In the morning I take a guided tour into the canyonRead more