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Blanca Peak is known to the Navajo people as the Sacred Mountain of the East: Sisnaajiní [11] (or Tsisnaasjiní [12]), the Dawn or White Shell Mountain. The mountain is considered to be the eastern boundary of the Dinetah, the traditional Navajo homeland. It is associated with the color white, and is said to be covered in daylight and dawn and ...
They are named in sunwise order and associated with the colors of the four cardinal directions: Sisnaajiní or Blanca Peak (white in the east), Tsoodził or Mt. Taylor (blue in the south), Doko’oosłííd or the San Francisco Peaks (yellow in the west), and Dibéntsaa or Hesperus Peak (black in the north).
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Colorado whose names are derived from Native American languages.
The Holy People, or Diyin Diné, had instructed the Earth People to view the four sacred mountains as the boundaries of the homeland they should never leave: Blanca Peak (Sisnaajiní — Dawn or White Shell Mountain) in Colorado; Mount Taylor (Tsoodził — Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain) in New Mexico; the San Francisco Peaks ...
Navajo Peak is set on the Continental Divide in the Front Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. [6] The mountain is located 21 miles (34 km) west of Boulder in the Indian Peaks Wilderness , on land managed by Arapaho National Forest and Roosevelt National Forest .
Navajo Peak, as seen from the top of Pawnee Peak. The Indian Peaks Wilderness is a 73,931 acre wilderness area in north central Colorado managed jointly by the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service within the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and small parts of the southern section of Rocky Mountain National Park.
Apr. 1—Native American voting rights advocates are celebrating what they call a victory in a redistricting case that ended with an out-of-court settlement in San Juan County. Plaintiffs in the ...
Hesperus Mountain (Navajo: Dibé Ntsaa meaning "Big Mountain Sheep" [4]) is the highest summit of the La Plata Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The prominent 13,237-foot (4,035 m) thirteener is located in San Juan National Forest, 13.2 miles (21.2 km) northeast by east (bearing 59°) of the Town of Mancos in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States.