{Monument Valley Navajo Tribal National Park originally posted by @visitutah} Tsé Bii’ Ndzisgaii, what is known in English as Monument Valley, is not, contrary to popular belief, public land at all. It is sovereign Navajo (Diné) land on the Navajo Reservation.

I have seen Tsé Bii’ Ndzisgaii tagged as a national park, a state park, and a movie set and Utah sure does its best to claim it as for its own when it comes to tourism. Mislabeling a place or representing it as non-Native land isn’t the same as actually physically taking the land and removing the people that live there of course, but it is still an integral part of colonialism. Tsé Bii’ Ndzisgaii is part of a sovereign nation. When you visit respect the laws and rules of the Navajo Nations and make it clear to your followers through geotags and captions that this is Tsé Bii’ Ndzisgaii and it is on #nativeland.