Located on the border of Utah and Arizona, 285 mi/460 km southeast of Salt Lake City, the stark landscape of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is what most of us imagine the West to look like—gr ...

they may not realize it’s part of Navajo Nation or that it has its own equivalent of a national park, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. “But there is more to just the beautiful scenery.

In 1958, the council voted to set aside 29,817 acres of Monument Valley as the first-ever tribal park, to be run by Navajo on the national park model, and allocated $275,000 to upgrade roads and ...

A new road trip of the Southwest’s Indigenous heartlands offers travellers a greater understanding of the past, present and ...

Navajo Times | Quentin Jodie The Chinle baseball team pose for a photo after defeating the Monument Valley Mustangs 11-0 ...

Monument Valley stands as one of the most iconic ... The canyon is home to the Navajo Nation, and the stories of their ...

Then, in 2017, President Trump shrank Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent and ... which is about 30 miles away on sovereign Navajo land. Thus the Valley retains something truly rare ...

In late April 2023, representatives from the Center of the American West and the National Park Service traveled to Flagstaff and various sites around the Navajo Nation to meet with indigenous elders ...