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Through Windows & Walls (2001, Silver Wave Records) with Peter Kater. Fourth World (2002, Canyon Records) Sanctuary (2003, Canyon Records) In Beauty, We Return (2004, Canyon Records) People of Peace (2005, Canyon Records) with The R. Carlos Nakai Quartet. Our Beloved Land (2005, Canyon Records) with Keola Beamer.
Raymond Carlos Nakai (born April 16, 1946) is a Native American flutist of Navajo and Ute heritage. Nakai played brass instruments in high school and college, and auditioned for the Armed Forces School of Music after a two-year period in the United States Navy. He began playing a traditional Native American cedar flute after an accident left ...
Paul Horn (March 17, 1930 – June 29, 2014) was an American flautist, saxophonist, composer and producer. He became a pioneer of world and new age music with his 1969 album Inside. [1] He received five Grammy nominations between 1965 and 1999, including three nominations in 1965. [2]
U.S. National Monument. Canyon de Chelly National Monument (/ dəˈʃeɪ / də-SHAY) was established on April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service. Located in northeastern Arizona, it is within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation and lies in the Four Corners region. Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of ...
The Thunderbird Lodge. The Thunderbird Lodge is a historic motel in Chinle, Arizona. The only lodging facility within Canyon de Chelly National Monument, a national monument established in 1931, it has grown out of an old trading post built in 1896, the Thunderbird Lodge Trading Post. Some elements use Pueblo Revival architecture .
The Battle of Canyon de Chelly was fought in 1864 as part of the Navajo Wars. It was a successful operation for the United States Army which precipitated the Long Walk and was the final major military engagement between the Navajo and the Americans. The battle ended with the fall of the main Navajo settlements of Canyon de Chelly in present-day ...
November 16, 1907. Designated NMSRCP. May 21, 1971. Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. The 533-acre (2.16 km 2) national monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt through ...
Chinle Creek. Map of the San Juan Basin showing the Chinle Creek. Chinle Creek is a tributary stream of the San Juan River in Apache County, Arizona and San Juan County, Utah. Its source is at 36°53′40″N 109°44′37″W, the confluence of Laguña Creek and the Chinle Wash arroyo. Its name is derived from the Navajo word ch'inili meaning ...