Traditional Connections to the Grand Canyon and Present-day Locations Map

The Grand Canyon region is the traditional land of Indigenous peoples who were displaced by genocide, pandemic warfare, and federal policy that radically shrank traditional lands to reservations. Pushed off federal lands, Native people are still here practicing their traditional lifeways. View traditional connections to the Grand Canyon ›

Traditional connections to the Grand Canyon.

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