The natural beauties, the peculiarities of customs and traditions, the conservative ideas of the people, the Navajo reservations, the national parks of inestimable beauty, make Utah a land to explore.
Monument Valley: the Navajo
Several western films, the kind that delighted fans of the genre, were shot around here. We are referring to the state of Utah, one of the most picturesque in all of America. In this land lies the Monument Valley, a solitary valley where the famous mountains often borrowed by the Indians in many western films rise. The ruins of the settlements of the Anasazi Indians are still visible on the slopes of the hills. 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, particularly the populations coming from nearby Mexico, and only in the nineteenth century did the 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 particular religion.
