The Southwest Portfolio has been completely reorganized.

Click the Display Composite above to visit the new Monument Valley section.

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is on the border of Utah and Arizona in the Four Corners Area.
Its mesas and buttes are some of the most recognizable Southwestern scenery, made famous by films
created in the 1930s and later by John Ford and John Wayne, and many other iconic Western films.

Monument Valley (Tse Bii’ Ndzisgaii is the Navajo (Dine) term, which means Valley of the Rocks) is a
vast landscape of sandstone buttes and mesas and free-standing formations on the Colorado Plateau.
A part of the Navajo Nation Reservation, it was occupied by Paleo-Indians from 12,000 BC, the Archaic
hunter-gatherers from 6,000 BC, Anasazi farmers from 1-1300 AD, Paiutes from 1300 AD, and finally the
Navajo. The Anasazi left behind some ruins and a number of petroglyphs which are shown in this section.

The section index is an overview, containing selections from the 142 images in the section detailed in the
four sub-section pages (Scenics, Mesas and Buttes, Mystery Valley and Arches, Hogans and Petroglyphs).
The Hogans page has images of Susie Yazzie, Centenarian Matriarch of the Navajo Todicheenie Clan,
a famous Navajo weaver, author and Tribal spokeswoman who appeared in several John Ford films.

The Photoshelter Monument Valley galleries contain 190 images.
The photographs on the site have been organized with CMMS for better management.