According to the National Park Service,
If these walls could talk, they would tell you that for nearly 5,000 years, people have lived in these canyons – longer than anyone has lived uninterrupted anywhere on the Colorado Plateau.
Some highlights of the canyon’s South Rim:
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- The view from White House Overlook
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- The White House ruins from afar
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- Descending into Canyon de Chelly
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- You know you’re getting close when the vendors show up
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- Our destination: the White House Ruins
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- The local residents of the area
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- Spider Rock, so named for the Spider Woman in the Navajo creation story. She protected the humans who emerged here from the underworld.
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- A fenced area that reminds us of Wisconsin’s outline
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- Perhaps this butte inspired the shape of…
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- … Jabba the Hutt’s sail barge in Return of the Jedi