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This is a list of communities on the Navajo Nation, including the checkerboard, arranged alphabetically. Alamo, New Mexico. Aneth, Utah. Baca, New Mexico. Beclabito, New Mexico [a] Becenti, New Mexico. Bitter Springs, Arizona [b] Borrego Pass, New Mexico. Brimhall Nizhoni, New Mexico [c]
[citation needed] One notable location of conflict is the Chambers Checkerboard – a region occupied by Navajo people before railroad companies were granted the land to construct the transcontinental railroad. Tension grew between the Navajo tribe and the settlers of the region because of unexplained deaths, which each party blamed on the other.
Navajo Woman at a waterfall c. 1920. The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo), also known as Navajoland, [3] is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. The seat of government is located in Window Rock, Arizona.
Checkerboard Mesa. Checkerboard Mesa is an iconic 6,520+ ft (1,990+ m) elevation Navajo Sandstone summit located in Zion National Park, in Kane County of southwest Utah, United States. [3] Checkerboard Mesa is situated immediately southwest of the park's east entrance, towering 900 feet (270 meters) above the Zion – Mount Carmel Highway.
Typical landscape in Prewitt, NM (87045) Prewitt is within the Baca/Prewitt (Kin Łigaaí) Chapter House boundary in the "Checkerboard Area" of the Navajo Nation.[6] [7] This means that Prewitt lies within the external boundaries of the Navajo Nation, but contains a mix of tribal, BLM, state, and private lands.
Area code. 928. FIPS code. 04-83720. GNIS feature ID. 2409610 [2] Window Rock, known in Navajo as Tségháhoodzání (pronounced [tsʰéɰáhòːtsání]), is a city and census-designated place that serves as the capital of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe by both land and tribal enrollment. [3] The capital lies within the ...
Tohajiilee Indian Reservation. Coordinates: 35°05′09″N 107°05′07″W. To’Hajiilee (Navajo: Tó Hajiileehé) is the non-contiguous eastern exclave of the Navajo Nation. Aerial view into the To’Hajiilee where the Rio Puerco crosses its eastern boundary, just west of Albuquerque 's West Mesa, Petroglyph National Monument, and Double ...
English: A series of United States Indian reservation locator maps, constructed mostly with Tiger/LINE and BIA open data, with supplements from the Canadian and Mexican censuses. Generated on July 24, 2019.