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Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock" [4]) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.
Shiprock (Navajo: Naatʼáanii Nééz) is an unincorporated community on the Navajo reservation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 7,718 people in the 2020 census . For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Shiprock as a census-designated place (CDP).
Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" ), located in traditional Dinétah territory (northwestern New Mexico). Dinétah is the traditional homeland of the Diné or Navajo, an Indigenous people of the Southwestern United States .
Federal prosecutors allege Tyrell Jordan Benally, 25, of Shiprock, assaulted a woman on or about Jan. 1 on the Navajo Nation in San Juan County.
It is one of many such volcanic diatremes that are found in Navajo country of northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. Agathla Peak and Shiprock in New Mexico are the most prominent. These rocks are part of the Navajo Volcanic Field, in the southern Colorado Plateau. Ages of these minettes and associated more unusual igneous rocks cluster ...
Shiprock is known as "the winged rock" in the Navajo language, and the mountain is considered sacred by the Navajo people. [11] Shiprock is where the US 491 crosses the San Juan River and is briefly concurrent with US 64. After passing Shiprock, the route continues north to the Colorado state line.
This is a list of communities on the Navajo Nation, including the checkerboard, ... Navajo, AZ: 494 Shiprock: Naatʼáanii Nééz San Juan, NM: 7,718 Smith Lake:
Navajo cultural advisor George R. Joe explains the painful history, and present-day controversies, that shaped his work on AMC crime drama 'Dark Winds.' Stereotypes. Taboos.