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Chaco is an interesting place to visit; and so is Aztec, NM, which is another large Anasazi site, just down the road a piece. Yeah, I don't care what the park ranger said - "Anasazi" rolls off the tongue a lot more easily than "ancestral Puebloan peoples."

There's a Navajo historian on YouTube who has some things to say about Chaco. According to their traditions, Chaco was not a good place, and the Anasazi were regarded as being completely different - and not in a good way - from the other people in that region.

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The term “Anasazi” is a Navajo word = means “ancient enemy.”

The Apache and Navajo are from northwestern Canada and eastern Alaska.. Their Athabascan ancestors migrated south when the Spanish were moving north from new Spain / old Mexico..

Hopi call their ancestors: Hisatsinom