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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUC_sandal-trail_Kayenta-AZ.html
Follow the easy one-mile (1.6 km) around-trip trail to a point overlooking Betakakin Ruin—multi-level cliff-village home to a community of 13th-century Anasazi farmers.
On the way there and back, you'll be walking through pygmy forest&mda…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUB_wagon_Kayenta-AZ.html
You can tell that his two-horse wagon has traveled many a mile over rough Navajo reservation roads. One of the many styles made around the turn of the century specifically for the Indian trade, and sold at trading posts. Horse drawn wagons are a r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUA_sweathouse_Kayenta-AZ.html
This miniature forked-stick hogan without a smoke hole is actually a highly effective bath—an an ancient solution to the problem of keeping clean in a land where water is scarce.
Here's how it works: Stones are heated in a fire, then roll…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU9_dinosaur-footprint_Kayenta-AZ.html
Footprints of a small dinosaur that walked on his hind legs. About 180 million years ago, he left a lasting signature by walking through the mud. The print then filled with sediment, and both print and cast (upside-down here) eventually turned to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU8_canyons-in-time_Kayenta-AZ.html
The maze of canyonlands stretching before you is the continuing work of millions of years of powerful and pervasive geological forces.
Water scours and down-cuts channels in the soft sandstone plateau. The process is augmented by forces of fros…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU7_upside-down-mountain_Kayenta-AZ.html
Hidden away in Tsegi Canyon's wilderness of bare rock, sand, and sparse vegetation are surprising pockets of luxuriant growth. Betatakin Canyon—home to a village of prehistoric cliff-dwellings farmers—is one of these oases. Fir Canyon,…