Many scholars agree that the name Tonto derived from the Chiricahua name for Western Apaches — bini édiné — meaning “people without minds.” This may have referred to the fact that they spoke a ...

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places ... it's easy to imagine the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who built these cliff houses 800 years ago. Ancestral Puebloans ...

Today’s Pueblo Indians have ... Jeffrey Dean of the Arizona Tree-Ring Laboratory to 1273 to 1285. Dean dated nearby Betatakin and Keet Seel, two of the largest cliff dwellings ever built ...

Walnut Canyon National Monument is located just outside of Flagstaff, Arizona. Visitors have the opportunity to see the Cliff dwellings of the Sinagua Indians and built-in alcoves in the sandstone ...

Probably there are very few if any towns in Arizona that can boast of the interesting surroundings of Flagstaff. Within a radius of ten miles are to be found the famous cliff dwellings ...

At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma Valley. Remarkably preserved, the cliff dwellings cluster in ...

Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever found, built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly ... area where Arizona, Colorado, New ...