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national monument, which actually includes Canyon del Muerto, Monument
Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly, has housed people for more than 1,500 years.
Numerous pictographs, petroglyphs, and ruins tell the tales of the people
who once made their homes here. The style of living has changed-from the
circular pit houses of the Basket Makers to the cliff dwellings of the
Anasazi and Pueblos to the hogans of the Navajo (who first came here in
the 1700s)-but the regard for the cliffs as a spiritual place has always
remained true.
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