Inside Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- In this second video about Canyon de Chelly, we're going into the canyon with a Navajo guide and camping overnight. We booked our tour through the Spider Rock Campground host. We leave our camp site that is in Spider Rock Campground on the canyon rim.
Other than the White House pueblo trail, for all other canyon floor access you must be with an authorized Navajo guide or a US Park Ranger. It's been a dry, so much of the canyon road is soft, thick sand.
Canyon de Chelly contains dwellings and rock art of 5 peoples: the Archaic, the Basketmakers, the Pueblo, the Hopi and the Navajo. The Navajo still live here today. Respectfully, and at their request, images of the Navajo and their personal belongings are not included or are blurred in this video.
White House Ruin is named for the long white plaster wall of the upper dwelling. White house was constructed and lived in by the Ancestral Puebloans about 1,000 years ago. Cottonwood and russian olive trees are prominent in the canyon floor, along with the indigenous Tamarisk bushes. The flowers of the russian olive trees smell immensely sweet.
The sandstone Spider Rock rises upwards of 750 feet from the Canyon floor at the junction of Canyon de Chelly and Monument Canyon. Spider Rock has spiritual and cultural significance for the Navajo. Visitors come from around the world to visit the canyon and Spider Rock. Our guide takes us to the place we will make camp. It is near Sliding House. The property has been in his family for generations. We setup our little Coleman pup tent that we've had for years.
Built around the year 900, Sliding House contained up to 50 rooms and 3 kivas. It was occupied until the mid-1200s. The sloping floor of the ledge gives the dwelling its name. A large part of the structure has fallen off of the ledge.
The next morning Bill discovers a raccoon visited the camp area during the night and was digging up and eating antlion larvae. Well that's interesting. We show you what an antlion larvae looks like.
Today we explore Canyon Del Muerto. The falling fluff covered seeds of the Cottonwood trees is so thick it looks like snow. Antelope House is on the canyon floor so it is easier to see. It is named for its images of antelope that are attributed to Navajo artist, Little Sheep, who lived here in the early 1800s. They represent the Navajo returning to the canyon to thrive again. Antelope House pueblo stood 3 to 4 stories high, had more than 80 rooms and at least 7 kivas. It has two room blocks connected by a central, circular plaza. It is the only site in the canyon to have this type of plaza.
[Correction: In the video we say that tamarisk is indigenous to Canyon de Chelly. This is incorrect. While cottonwood and willow trees are indigenous, the tamarisk bush is not. Our guide identified the tamarisk bush to us and told us it is indigenous. It is our error for not verifying the information before including it in the video.]
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Beautiful and awesome
We concur. A fascinating place.
Thank You Both for sharing this beautiful journey into place of the Old Ones...Every Rock is blessed with their carvings and inscriptions... A sacred place...
You're welcome. It is such a special and beautiful place and we relished every moment.
Very nice. Great video I have not seen a ant lion in along time.
Thank you. Ant lions are interesting little creatures. Before this we didn't know of any critters that would specifically eat antlions.
Was there about 10 years ago, and at that time we took the hiking trail down into the canyon and back up. Beautiful place. The “swastika” image used by native Americans is actually a mirror image (backwards facing) of that of nazi Germany. And as you point out is much older in its origin.
Same, I encountered a skinwalker up close when I camped at the Coyote pass. Beings from all pantheons live there.
Well that's terrifying. Sorry our video reminded you of that happening.
Boogy man of the rez
What is a skinwalker?
In the Navajo culture, a skin-walker is a witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal. Source wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker
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Hiking canyon de chelly
Thank you for discussing the swastika. A symbol which spans many cultures!
You're welcome, Elana. Thank you for watching.
👍
Thank you.
I was there many moons ago... 👍. Hows that Smittybilt RTT holding up?
Cool! The little RTT is still doing well. We put it through several thunderstorms this past month and survived, so that was good.
The Desert Fox!
Was there nearby water for your campsite, or did you bring it all in via vehicle?
We took in everything that we needed.
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You're welcome @John Tuttle. Access to the inside of Canyon de Chelly is regulated by the Navajo Nation. We went with our guide to sign in at an entrance office before entering the canyon. While inside the canyon, it was required that we were accompanied by our guide at all times - nearby at least. Our guide did make bottled water available to us, though we already had plenty. We were on the guide's property while staying overnight.
Were you "brought" in or were you and your vehicle escorted in, curious as to why you used a ground tent not your RTT?
The guide drove us in inside his vehicle.
How much did you pay for the guided trip
About $200 for two of us in 2018, for a 2-day tour with overnight stay in the canyon.
Svastica not from Native Americans as a symbol. The sign from Nepal originally. Hitler believed that the Aria of Germans from the Himalaya.
Thanks so much for the information! Interest how a symbol can have such a varied and storied past.
Swastika symbol is and has been universal in every civilization around the world, not only Nepal. Nepal is only known for their Temple of Doom and human sacrifice in Indiana Jones
Tamarisk is not indigenous.
Thank you for the information, Paul. Dang it. Our guide noted to us that it was indigenous. I must have misunderstood and didn't triple verify it.
Yup. He may have misspoke, or you may have misheard, but it's invasive.
That's terrible. Thank you for the info. I'll see if I can add a note on the video to that effect.
Raccoons will eat just about anything!
So true.
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[English: I want to understand, and reply, correctly. What do you mean by , "But in a single state."]
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