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Show ra rb 1 e Canyon South of Page is a long steep and narrow gorge cut by the Colorado as it begins its dramatic fall into the Grand Canyon. The steel bridge at Marble Canyon was for many years the highest 'bridge of its kind. Navajo Indian Reservation covers much of the northwestern corner of Arizona and At the Utah border are the famous buttes of into New rexi co and Utah. To Monument Valley, impressive sentinels on the broad flat desert. the south are the Anasazi ruins of the Navajo National 'Monument where the predecessors of the Hopi first dwelt. The reservation The Hopi Reservation The Hopis live on three mesas in the middle of the Navajo Reservation along the desert highway from Tuba City to Window Rock. For more than 800 years, these Indians have lived here in adobe villages above the mesa cliffs where they perform many rituals of their complex religion, including the famous Snake Dance. At Flagstaff, Arizona San Francisco Mountains is the famous Close by, of many astronomical discoveries. the Museum of Northern Arizona has probably the best display and hibition of the Indian cultures of the Southwest. To the north of F1astaff is still another Anasazi site, Wupatki National Monument. In the foothills of the Lowell Observatory, high scene Meteor Crater and Sunset Crater These geographical phenomena, both outside to the broad desert vistas. Flagstaff, add a strangeness Painted Desert In a broad area just off the Interstate 40, the brilliant hues, adding still another element of incredible Southwest landscape. plateau takes on fantasy to the Petrified Forest Just east of Holbrook, Arizona are scattered heaps of silica skeletons of massive cedar and pine logs left by a prehistoric forest 200 million At the museum here, are polished slabs of petrified wood years ago. and panoramas of the Painted Desert. Hubbel1s Trading Post Near the settlement of Ganado is the oldest trading post on the Navajo It was operated by man who the Indians deeply respected. Reservation. besides Now, selling some of the finest examples of Navajo crafts, Hubbe1ls has exhibits of Southwestern history and Indian art. H-ll |
