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Canyon de Chelly National Monument (/ d ə ˈ ʃ eɪ / də-SHAY) was established on April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service. Located in northeastern Arizona , it is within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation and lies in the Four Corners region.
Satellite image of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, including the Four Corners Monument (FC). Snow dusts higher elevations in the image. Labeled natural features are the Chuska Mountains (CM), the Carrizo Mountains (C), Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park (MV), Black Mesa (B), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (CdC), and the Defiance Uplift-() (D).
In February 1835 the Mexican Captain Blas de Hinojos left Santa Fe and headed west into Navajo country with a force of almost 1,000 Mexican troops on a slaving expedition. On 28 February 1835, Hinojo's force entered the pass. [19] The Navajo headman Narbona had heard of Hinojos's advance, knew he had to come through the pass to reach the Canyon ...
The Peabody Museum sponsored DeHarport to work at Canyon de Chelly National Monument during his PhD candidacy. He spent the summers of 1948-1951 and 1957-1959 surveying the Monument. [ 1 ] DeHarport would later go on to write a four volume dissertation entitled, "An Archeological Survey of Canyon de Chelly," based on data gathered 367 sites in ...
By 6 January, Carson was re-equipped and ready to move against Canyon de Chelly despite heavy snow. Carson had with him 389 troopers from the 1st New Mexico Cavalry. He divided his command, sending Captain Albert H. Pfeiffer into the east end of the canyon with 100 men, while Carson led the remaining 289 to the west end of the canyon. Carson ...
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perhaps this entry, i.e. Canyon de Chelly, is a case-in-point of how National Park Service, with its limited funding and short-staffed, is unable or unwilling to engage in professional archaeological excavations within its jurisdictions, depraving us of knowledge regarding the prehistory of these sites - see this book A new deal for ...
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