The natural beauties, the peculiarities of customs and habits, 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 have been shot around here, the kind that, to be clear, have delighted fans of the genre. We are referring to the state of Utah, one of the most picturesque in all of America. In this land lies Monument Valley, a lonely valley where the famous mountains often borrowed by Native Americans in many western films rise. The ruins of the Anasazi Indian settlements are still visible on the hillsides. But here the Native Americans 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 white settlers, particularly populations from neighboring Mexico, and only in the nineteenth century did the U.S. troops take possession. Despite everything, Utah waited a long time before becoming part of the United States of America due to its overly conservative population and its adherence to a particular religion.
