Canyon de Chelly was first inhabited by hunter-gatherers in 2500 BC. It has been continuously occupied by Native Americans up to the present; Navajo families still live and farm in the valley.
Called “White House Ruin,” Ancestral Puebloans built and occupied this place about 1000 years ago. It housed more than a dozen families, and may have included up to eighty rooms and four circular kivas (sacred ceremonial structures).
The diversity of topography in the canyon is stunning.
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