In The Shelter of The Wind I Will Build My Home

by Lucinda Walter

Title

In The Shelter of The Wind I Will Build My Home

Artist

Lucinda Walter

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Photograph - Photography, Digital Art, Fine Art, Textured Photography

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Photograph was taken on the North Rim Drive at Canyon De Chelly National Monument. Ancient Native American tribe built their homes in the walls. This is a overview of the canyon and the homes. The park is located in Chinle, Arizona, and is entirely on Navajo tribal lands with Navajo families living in the canyon.
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument (/dəˈʃeɪ/ də�shā′) was established on April 1, 1931 as a unit of the National Park Service. It is located in northeastern Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, it preserves ruins of the early indigenous tribes that lived in the area, including the Ancient Pueblo Peoples (also called Anasazi) and Navajo. The monument covers 83,840 acres (131.0 sq mi; 339.3 km2) and encompasses the floors and rims of the three major canyons: de Chelly, del Muerto, and Monument. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. None of the land is federally owned.[5] In 2009 Canyon de Chelly National Monument was recognized as one of the most-visited national monuments in the United States. The name chelly (or Chelley) is a Spanish borrowing of the Navajo word Ts�yiʼ, which means "canyon" (literally "inside the rock" < ts� "rock" + -yiʼ "inside of, within"). The Navajo pronunciation is [ts�ɣiʔ]. The Spanish pronunciation of de Chelly [deˈtʃeʎi] was adapted into English, apparently through modelling after a French-like spelling pronunciation, and now English pronunciation: /dəˈʃeɪ/ də�shā′. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon_de_Chelly_National_Monument

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January 17th, 2015

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