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The four sacred mountains in the cardinal directions of Navajo Country hold great importance. They are named in sunwise order and associated with the colors of the four cardinal directions: Sisnaajiní or Blanca Peak (white in the east), Tsoodził or Mt. Taylor (blue in the south), Doko’oosłííd or the San Francisco Peaks (yellow in the ...
English: A series of United States Indian reservation locator maps, constructed mostly with Tiger/LINE and BIA open data, with supplements from the Canadian and Mexican censuses. Generated on July 24, 2019.
Blanca Peak is known to the Navajo people as the Sacred Mountain of the East: Sisnaajiní [11] (or Tsisnaasjiní [12]), the Dawn or White Shell Mountain. The mountain is considered to be the eastern boundary of the Dinetah , the traditional Navajo homeland.
Herb Conn, Ray Garner, and Lee Pedrick (left to right), are checking their equipment prior to the first ascent. Rock climbing is not currently allowed on Agathla Peak and surrounding Navajo Nation lands; [4] however, in 1949 there were no such restrictions, and the first known ascent of the peak was done on May 29, 1949, by Ray Garner, Herb Conn, and Lee Pedrick [5] [6] The climbers followed ...
The latest on hiking, camping and other activities at Canyon de Chelly, Navajo National Monument, Hubbell Trading Post and Four Corners Monument. These 4 Navajo Nation historic sites have reopened ...
Hesperus Mountain (Navajo: Dibé Ntsaa meaning "Big Mountain Sheep" [4]) is the highest summit of the La Plata Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The prominent 13,237-foot (4,035 m) thirteener is located in San Juan National Forest, 13.2 miles (21.2 km) northeast by east (bearing 59°) of the Town of Mancos in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States.
Naat’tsis’aan (Navajo Mountain) Scenic Road: 68 miles: The road travels along Arizona State Route 98 through historic, sacred lands of the Paiute, Hopi and Navajo. The earliest of these were in the area 8,000 B.C. or earlier. It includes the Navajo's most sacred mountain, Naat'tsis'aan, or Navajo Mountain.
Former Daily Times reporter Debi Tracy Olsen wrote a 26-week series in the 1990s that examined the Long Walk from the Navajo perspective. Navajo elders invited to share, record stories during May ...