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Indian Country
On the far side of Grand Canyon most of the land you see is Navajo Indian Reservation. Beyond that, on the distant horizon, lies the Pained Desert and the Hopi Indian Reservation.
The Navajo Indian Reservation borders the Grand Canyon on the east from Lees Ferry south, beyond the gorge of the Little Colorado River (see map at right). The Navajo people, Athabaskans who migrated into the American southwest from western Canada in the 1400s, were traditionally nomadic hunters and warriors.
The Hopi Indians trace their ancestry to the prehistoric Pueblo people we know as Anasazi and they know as Hisatsinom. They have inhabited the lands to the east continuously since before the 13th century.
Navajo Mountain lies astride the Arizona/Utah border near the shore of Lake Powell. |