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4 Hopi Indian Red style of rug arose in the
Reservation late 1800s from local weavers’
creative response to J. L.
Road map C3. * 10,000. n Hubbell’s suggestion of what
Highway 264, Second Mesa (928) might sell to customers of
734-2401. Open May–Sep: 6am–9pm the trading post. In another
daily; Oct–Apr: 7am–8pm daily. department a long row
Closed Jan 1, Thanksgiving, Dec 25.
of glass cases displays an
Arizona’s only Pueblo Indians, impressive array of silver
the Hopi (see p31), are the direct and turquoise jewelry.
descendants of the Ancestral Visitors can tour Hubbell’s
Puebloan people, whom they restored home and view the
call the Hisatsinom. The Hopi significant collection of South-
Reservation is sur rounded by A range of merchandise in the general store at Hubbell Trading Post western art. At the visitor center,
the lands of the Navajo. The Navajo women demonstrate
landscape is harsh and barren, point for the one-hour Walpi Hubbell Trading Post was rug-weaving.
Ancestral Puebloan ruins of Keet Seel at Navajo National Monument yet the Hopi have cultivated the tours. Walpi was built to be established in the 1870s by John
land here for a thousand years. easily defended, and straddles Lorenzo Hubbell and is the oldest
2 Navajo National ruin are issued each day. They worship, through the a dramatic knife edge of rock, continually operating trading 6 Window Rock
Monument This hike requires overnight kachina, the living spirits of extending from the tip of First post in the Navajo Nation. Trading Road map D3. * 4,500. @
camping at a camp site with plants and animals, Mesa. In places Walpi is less posts like this one were once the
Road map C3. Tel (928) 672-2700. only the most basic facilities. believed to arrive than 100 ft (33 m) wide with economic and social centers of n Highway 264 (928) 871-6436.
Open 8am–5:30pm daily (9am–5pm Keet Seel was a larger and more each year to stay a drop of several hundred feet the reservations. The Navajo ∑ navajonationparks.org
mid-Sep–end May ). Closed Jan 1, successful community than with the tribe on both sides. The Walpi tour traded sheep, wool, blankets, Window Rock is the capital of
Thanksgiving, Dec 25. 8  Betatakin. Construction began during the includes several stops where turquoise, and other items in the Navajo Nation. The town
∑ nps.gov/nava
on Keet Seel in about 1250, but grow ing season visitors can purchase kachina exchange for tools, household is named for the natural arch
While named because of the site is thought to have been (see p31). Most of the figurines and distinctive hand- goods, and food. The trading found in the sandstone cliffs
its location on the Navajo abandoned by 1300. Hopi villages are on crafted pottery, or sample the posts were also a resource during located about a mile north
Reservation, this monument is These two sites are considered or near one of three Hopi piki bread. times of need. When a smallpox of the main strip on Hwy 12.
actually known for its Ancestral to mark the pinnacle of mesas (flat-topped Those wishing to shop further epidemic struck in 1886, The Navajo Nation
Puebloan ruins. The most acces- development of the area’s eleva tions), named can continue on to Second John Lorenzo helped Museum located here
sible ruin here is the beautifully Ancestral Puebloan people. First, Second, and Mesa, where several galleries care for the sick, using is one of the largest
preserved, 135-room pueblo Third Mesa. The and stores offer an array of Hopi his house as a hospital. Native American
of Betatakin, which fills a vast, artisans on each of arts and crafts. The Hopi Cultural Today, the trading museums in the US.
curved niche in the cliffs of 3 Tuba City the mesas specialize Kachina Center is home to a restaurant post still hums with Navajo bracelet at Hubbell The huge hogan-
Tsegi Canyon. An easy one-mile Road map C3. * 8,900. n Tuba City in particular crafts: figure (see p256), the only hotel (see traditional trading Trading Post shaped building
(1.6-km) trail from the visitor Trading Post, 10 N. Main St. (928) 283- on First Mesa these p241) for miles around, and a activities. One room is houses displays that
center leads to an overlook 5441. are carved figures museum that has a collection a working general store, the cover the history of the Ancestral
where Betatakin is clearly (representing the kachina of photographs depicting rafters hung with frying pans Puebloans and the Navajo.
visible on the far side, near the Named for Tuuvi, a Hopi Indian spirits) and painted pottery; on scenes of Hopi life. and hardware, and shelves
canyon floor. This is a lovely hike who converted to the Mormon Second Mesa, silver jewelry and On Third Mesa, Old Oraibi stacked with cloth, medicines, E Navajo Nation Museum
through piñon pines and juniper faith, Tuba City is best known coiled baskets are made; and on pueblo, thought to have been and food. Another room is filled Hwy 264 & Post Office Loop Rd. (928)
trees. From late May to early for the 65-million-year-old Third Mesa, craftspeople fashion founded in the 12th century, with Navajo baskets, Hopi 871-7941. Open 8am–5pm Mon,
September there are daily five- dinosaur tracks found just off wicker baskets and woven rugs. is of note because of claims kachina dolls, and beautiful 8am–6pm Tue–Fri, 9am–6pm Sat.
hour hiking tours to Betatakin, the main highway, 5 miles Walpi, the ancient pueblo on that it is the oldest continually hand-woven rugs – the Ganado ∑ navajonationmuseum.org
which allow a close look at the (8 km) southwest of the town. First Mesa, was first inhab ited occupied human settlement in
ruins of these ancient houses. This is the largest community in the 12th century. To reach North America.
A much more demanding in the western section of the Walpi, visitors drive up to
17-mile (27-km) round-trip Navajo Reservation and a good the Mesa from the Pollaca P Walpi
hike leads to Keet Seel, a more spot from which to explore the settle ment to the village of n (928) 737-2670. Walking tours
impressive ruin. Only a limited Navajo National Monument Sichomovi. Nearby, the Ponsi available 9am–3pm daily. &
number of permits to visit the and the Hopi Reservation. Visitor Center is the departure
5 Hubbell Trading
Post National
Historic Site
Road map D3. AZ264, near Ganado.
Tel (928) 755-3475. Open Apr–Sep:
8am–6pm; Oct–Mar: 8am–5pm.
∑ nps.gov/hutr
Located at the heart of the
Navajo reservation in the small,
Historic pueblo town of Walpi on First Mesa on the Hopi Indian Reservation bustling town of Ganado, the Eroded sandstone opening of Window Rock, near Highway 12
For hotels and restaurants see p241 and pp256–7

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