Visiting the Navajo Nation
Last week, I took a road trip back home to the Navajo Nation with my friend AJ. As I shared with AJ, my tribal reservation is considered the largest in the United States and it covers three states: Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. This trip, I decided to visit a few Navajo Nation landmark places that I, as a tribal member have never visit — at all.
We left Los Angeles around 4 am and decided to drive through Las Vegas, take a short stop at Zion’s National Park then down into Paige, Arizona. As we got closer we saw blue among the red mesas, Yes! We were near Lake Powell, which meant we would be driving towards Glen Canyon Dam.
The Glen Canyon Dam has a dark history with the Navajo people. I know that some of my relatives were forced to relocate when construction started in the 1940s. I also heard that many Navajo’s died while working on the Dam. More information can be shared here: Glen Canyon Dam
Our next stop was visiting Antelope Canyon — a place I always wanted to visit and got more familiar with due to…