• 7 years ago
Running Through the Heart of Navajo
In Canyon del Muerto, which fingers off from de Chelly, Spanish soldiers slaughtered 115 Navajo in 1805; in the main canyon, Kit Carson
and his soldiers and Ute allies cleared out the Navajo in 1864.
(Most Navajo under 40 now speak what they call “Navoglish.”)
We walked beneath ponderosa pines and I ran up Blue Canyon each morning, only
to get dusted by high school cross-country runners getting a little exercise.
That first year it took two days to sign up 150 runners for the first Canyon de Chelly ultramarathon.
Higdon, the Navajo college student, and a few other runners encountered a black bear walking up the sand path at them.

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