Dinetah Trails

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Let me guide you through these sacred lands

Spend a week with me exploring the backcountry. We'll leave the pavement behind for the humble accomodation and good food of the Largo Canyon School. With over 1500 archaeological sites in the canyon, we will have time to explore only the major ones. Bring your camera and your binoculars. Dogs and horses welcome too.

The Dinetah

Dinetah means land of the Dine, or Navajo. The Gobernador / Largo Canyon area is the place where the Dine originated. In the 1700's, the Spanish and Pueblo Indian punitive expeditions visited the area in response to Navajo raids on the Rio Grande valley. The area became a no-man's land when the Ute Nation declared war on the Navajo Nation in 1764, but it had been a no-man's land before - when it was a buffer zone in the violent conflict between the Anasazi and Gallina peoples. It is yet a no-man's land, a scarcely populated landscape of rocky desert canyons.