Native Americans

The panel frames Native people as a vanished chapter, but the Hopi and Diné who live here would correct it. The cliff-dwelling farmers once called Anasazi, a Navajo word for enemy ancestors that their descendants reject, are more rightly the Hisatsinom, the ancestral Puebloans, and the Hopi carry their line unbroken to the mesas south of here. The Diné, who reached this country by the 1400s, are not their successors but their own nation. Both peoples are present tense, not history left in the rock.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Antelope Canyon — 6.2 mi
  Tsé bighánílíní — where the water runs through the rock

More markers nearby

• Rainbow Bridge National Monument — steps away
• Navajo Generating Station — steps away
• Major John Wesley Powell — 1.7 mi
• Glen Canyon Bridge — 1.7 mi