We’ve been driving through the Navajo Nation for the past several days. It’s the largest Indian reservation in the US,about the same size as the state of West Virginia. The Navajos migrated to this area of the US ,north eastern Arizona, from Canada around 1400. They found an empty land but evidence of older settlements and a vanished people who they called the Anasazi which means ancient ones. The Anasazi are actually the ancestors of the Puebloan people who now live in northern New Mexico. The Navajo and all of the Puebloan tribes fared a little better than many other American Indian tribes because they were allowed to return to or stay on a portion of their ancestral lands which has resulted in a much more intact culture.
More pictures here - https://picasaweb.google.com/tonyandkaren1/IndianCountry?authkey=Gv1sRgCMCbqL6gyMDZ4wE#
