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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A canyon in northeast Arizona containing the ruins of spectacular Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings built between AD 350 and 1300.
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In the southwest we are stunned by the huge abandoned buildings of Chaco, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Comb Ridge and the Mogollon Rim.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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In the southwest we are stunned by the huge abandoned buildings of Chaco, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Comb Ridge and the Mogollon Rim.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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In the southwest we are stunned by the huge abandoned buildings of Chaco, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Comb Ridge and the Mogollon Rim.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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In the southwest we are stunned by the huge abandoned buildings of Chaco, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Comb Ridge and the Mogollon Rim.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Pausing near the bottom of Canyon de Chelly, we are greeted by the young man, who has passed us twice before as he raced up and down the steep switchbacks of the canyon's 600-foot cliff.
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Early that year he and the legendary scout Colonel Christopher “Kit” Carson had conducted a massive campaign against the Navajos in New Mexico, finally cornering them in the Canyon de Chelly, destroying their crops and seizing their stock, and forcing eight thousand of them on to a reservation.14
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Joe Shirley, Jr., was a traditional, raised by his grandparents in Chinle, a central Navajo town near the Canyon de Chelly.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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Canyon de Chelly [pronounced "da shay"] National Monument located on the Navajo Reservation is a unique combination of sheer red rock cliffs and ancient ruins.
The Navajo Nation 2009
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There were also motor trips to the cliff ruins of Mesa Verde in southern Colorado, the great Canyon de Chelly of the Navajos, and even as far as the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
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They belong to the same pueblo system illustrated by the villages of Tusayan and Cibola, and with the Canyon de Chelly group there is even some trace of traditional connection, as is set forth by
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