A place called Tseyi' is a photograph by Alexandra Till which was uploaded on September 3rd, 2013.
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A place called Tseyi'
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Alexandra Till
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© Christine Till
Carved rock stretches as far as the eye can see in Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona. Millions of years of land uplifts and stream cutting created these colorful sheer cliff walls.
The Ancient Puebloans found the canyons an ideal place to plant crops and raise families. In the mid-1300’s, when the Puebloans left, the Hopi migrated into the canyons to plant fields of corn and orchards of peaches. Finally the Hopi settled on the mesa tops, and the Navajo, who are related to the Athabaskan people of Northern Canada and Alaska, settled the Southwest between the four sacred mountains. The Navajo, or Dine' as they call themselves, continue to raise families and plant crops just as the "Ancient Ones" had. The farms, livestock and hogans of the Dine’ are visible from the canyon rims.
Canyon de Chelly National Monument was authorized in 1931 by President Herbert Hoover in large measure to preserve the important archeological resources that span more than 4,000 years of human occupation.
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