Dinétah

Dinétah is the ancestral homeland of the Diné, or Navajo, in the canyon and mesa country of northwestern New Mexico. The San Juan River and its tributaries cut through a landscape of sandstone cliffs, where families used the valleys and uplands for their livelihoods. In the decades after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, small fortified masonry structures known as pueblitos appeared in the Largo and Gobernador canyon country. They bear witness to a period of contact among Navajo, Pueblo and Spanish peoples, as conflict and the return of Spanish rule reshaped relationships across the region.