Canyon de Chelly, a national monument since 1931, sprawls fingerlike across roughly 84,000 acres of northeastern Arizona, near the town of Chinle, about a 3 1/2-hour drive from either Albuquerque ...

Art explores slot canyons in Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly. The American Southwest's bizarre and beautiful rock formations are the result of eons of erosion. In Utah’s Zion National Park, Art ...

A fertile cradle. Canyon de Chelly (pronounced de SHAY), a national monument since 1931, sprawls fingerlike across roughly 84,000 acres of northeastern Arizona, near the town of Chinle (CHIN-lee ...

Canyon de Chelly National Monument is a truly unique location. It lies in the midst of the high-plateau country of the Four Corners, the heartland of the Southwest. It is entirely within the ...

And so, in the early 2000s, he diversified to landscaping trees, planting crape myrtles and magnolias, maples and live oaks. At its peak, the farm was home to more than 20,000 trees, Magon said.

Centuries ago, Southwest tribal nations tended vast orchards of peach trees. But in 1863, thousands of those trees were cut down by the United States government when it ordered the Diné to leave ...

Sylvia Watchman is a farmer from Chinle, Arizona, a town of fewer than 5,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Canyon de Chelly, where Watchman, a member of the Navajo Nation, has lived all her life.

Derek M. Norman Nov 24, 2024 Nov 24, 2024 0 And on this early-September morning, I found myself surrounded by beauty as I roamed the verdant and sandy floor of Canyon de Chelly — a web of deep ...