The natural beauties, the peculiar customs and traditions, the conservative ideas of the people, the Navajo reservations, the national parks of priceless beauty, make Utah a land to be explored.
Monument Valley: the Navajo
In these parts, several western films have been shot, the kind that made genre enthusiasts happy. We refer to the state of Utah, one of the most picturesque in all of America. In this land lies Monument Valley, a solitary valley where rise the famous mountains often borrowed by Indians in many western films. The ruins of the settlements of the Anasazi Indians are still visible on the sides of the reliefs. But here the Indians still exist. They are the Navajo who live in assigned reservations.
The ancestors of the Navajo and other tribes such as the Apache, Pueblo, Tohono, were the first inhabitants of this land. They are the so-called Native Americans. But this land soon became a land of conquest for the first whites, especially populations coming from nearby Mexico and only in the nineteenth century did U.S. troops take possession. Despite everything, however, Utah waited a long time before joining the United States of America due to its overly conservative population and their practice of a particular religion.
