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Indigenous sacred sites in Arizona, United States
Explore 12 Indigenous sacred places in Arizona, United States, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.
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Antelope Canyon
Page, Arizona, United States
Deep within Navajo land, narrow sandstone passages open into chambers of flowing stone and cascading light....
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
Chinle Agency, Arizona, United States
Canyon de Chelly rises 1,000 feet above a valley where Navajo families still farm, herd sheep, and practice traditions their ancestors carried here three centuries ago....
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, United States
For at least 12,000 years, humans have stood at the edge of this chasm and felt something shift....
Horseshoe Bend
Page, Arizona, United States
A thousand feet below the overlook, the Colorado River completes its patient arc through Navajo Sandstone, forming the near-perfect horseshoe that has drawn both...
Meteor Crater, Arizona
Coconino County, Arizona, United States
Fifty thousand years ago, a nickel-iron meteorite crossed the boundary between space and earth, excavating a crater nearly a mile wide in the Arizona high desert....
Mount Graham, Arizona
Safford, Arizona, United States
Mount Graham rises 10,720 feet in southeastern Arizona, home to the Ga'an—the mountain spirits who guide Apache life....
Mt. Baboquivari, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Baboquivari Peak rises from the Sonoran Desert as the most sacred place of the Tohono O'odham people....
Mt. Humphreys, Arizona
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Humphreys Peak rises to 12,637 feet above the high desert of northern Arizona, the remnant of an ancient volcano and the highest point in the state....
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Ajo, Arizona, United States
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument holds some of the most significant sacred sites of the Tohono O'odham Nation outside their reservation....
Sedona, Arizona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Rising from the Arizona high desert, Sedona's crimson spires and buttes have called to seekers for millennia....
Sipapu
Arizona, United States
For many Hopi clans the Sipapuni is the place of emergence: the portal through which the ancestors climbed up from a previous world into this one....
Superstition Mountains, Arizona
Apache Junction, Arizona, United States
The Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix hold sacred significance for three Indigenous peoples....
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