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Many people travel to Indian Country car rental vienna in the southwestern United States. They enjoy visiting traditional sites, shopping for Native American jewelry and attending events where they can enjoy Native American dances. Discriminating travelers are looking for experiences where they can discover a region s customs, traditions, cuisine, and music. With more Tribal Nations than other state in the country, car rental vienna Arizona offers visitors the opportunity to explore Native American culture in the most intimate car rental vienna and authentic of ways. There are places where you can stay in hotels and resorts run by tribes and with cultural touches that will add meaning to your vacation.
The Moenkopi Legacy Inn was the first hotel to be built on Hopi tribal land in 50 years. It is located in Tuba City, Arizona. The Legacy Inn features 100 guestrooms including five suites, a salt water swimming car rental vienna pool, conference center and an outdoor car rental vienna performance plaza. The designs are simple but they include Hopi touches. Along the halls you will see black and white photographs of life on the Hopi mesas. In the lobby, enjoy Hopi artwork.
This project created a long-term employment opportunity for tribal members. The hotel offers, through authorized tour guides, private guided tours to Hopi villages including car rental vienna Oraibi, Sipaulovi, and Walpi as well as Dawa Park, a site with more than 10,000 petroglyphs. ( see review )
Also in Hopi, on Second Mesa, is a simpler place to stay, the small hotel at the Hopi Cultural Center will put you in the middle of Hopi. The hotel is open 365 days a year and features 30 guest rooms. Each unit is equipped with one or two queen beds, a comfortable sleep mattress, dining/work table, in-room coffee maker, basic cable TV, telephone for local calls, and a private bathroom. car rental vienna The restaurant serves both tradtional and American foods. Guide service is available. On the grounds you will often see Hopi artisans selling their wares. (unreviewed)
The VIEW Hotel was the first hotel to open inside Monument Valley and is the first hotel ever built on Navajo Tribal Park land, in the very first Tribal car rental vienna Park ever established. The VIEW Hotel is family owned and operated by Armanda Ortega of the Kiy`anníí (Towering House) Clan.
Every guestroom in the 90-room hotel has a view directly facing car rental vienna the famous Mittens formation and the exterior of the hotel is from a color palate car rental vienna of the red earth that surrounds the area. While the hotel has received inconsistent reviews, visitors always love being right in Monument Valley when the sun rises and sets. There is a restaurant and gift shop adjacent. Guide service and tours are available. (unreviewed)
The Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort Spa is Arizona's only Native American-owned, luxury resort. The resort boasts 500 culturally-themed rooms, 36-holes of Troon® Golf, the Aji spa, Koli, an onsite car rental vienna equestrian center and the resort's signature restaurant Kai.
Conveniently car rental vienna located 11 miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on the Gila River Indian Community, the resort offers a recreational and inspirational experience never before available in a resort setting.
Aji, meaning "Sanctuary" in the Pima language, is one of two Arizona Native American spas. Aji offers the only truly authentic Native car rental vienna American spa menu in existence, according to Wild Horse Pass Resort. The Indigenous Collection features treatments and activities designed and practiced by Aji's Pima and Maricopa Cultural Care Takers.
Each cultural offering is subjected to an extensive approval process car rental vienna by Tribal Elders car rental vienna to ensure authenticity and respect of sacred doctrines. The ancient Pima and Maricopa cultures are also showcased throughout the spa in design elements, artwork, architecture and shared legends. (unreviewed)
Guests staying at the Radisson Fort McDowell Resort and Casino on the lands of the Yavapai car rental vienna Nation should expect to encounter many traces of the Yavapai people in everything from their rooms to the resort's artwork and china. The resort obtained its concrete from the Yavapai's very own sand and gravel operation, car rental vienna and Yavapai elementary school car rental vienna children even created glass windows that are part of a mural inside Ahnala, the resort's restaurant. Many different areas of the resort contain the pattern of traditional Yavapai basket weaves, including the resort's china, wallpaper and carpet in the guestrooms.(unreviewed)
Talking Stick Resort and Casino , located in the Scottsdale, Arizona area is a large luxury resort with touches from the local Salt River Indian Community. The Salt River Indian Community is comprised of two tribes; the Pima or Akimel O Odham (River People) and the Maricopa or Xalychidom Piipaash (People who live toward the water).
A priceless collection of Native American art is displayed throughout Talking Stick Resort. In the lobby, guests will find a cultural center. Ensconced in glass, the cultural center features native pottery, jewelry and a talking stick, a custom piece from which the hotel gets its name. The art displayed in the cultural center reflects the Pima and Maricopa ancestry. In fact, most of the art included in the cultural car rental vienna center was actually created by members of the Salt River Pima Community.
Other mediums of art featured car rental vienna throughout the property, include historic Arizona photos, textiles, commissioned contemporary Native American paintings, baskets and more. You would have to stay at the hotel several times to see all of the art compiled there. Moreover, it is said that the art collection inside Talking Stick Resort is the largest Native American collection one can see outside car rental vienna a museum. (unreviewed)
Staying in a tribally owned hotel or resort may lead you to a culturally rich experience or it may just be a casino-resort with touches of the local Native culture. By looking at the website and reviews you can determine how culturally rich a property will be. Our listing is only a partial one. There are more casino resorts owned by Arizona tribes and small hotels in places like Page that are tribally owned. Here is a list compiled by another travel writer that will show you the diversity of hotels on tribal lands.
PatsyBell's writing focuses on travel and gardening; two of her favorite things. Her travels have taken her to countless gardens including Butchart Gardens in Victoria BC, Canada; Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA; Biltmore, Asheville, NC; and the three fabulous botanical gardens here in Missouri. car rental vienna When traveling, she prefers staying car rental vienna at boutique hotels car rental vienna and B Bs. There is always a good travel story in these cozy locations. Born in Branson, Missouri, Patsy Bell is a graduate of College of the Ozarks and is retired from the University Of Missouri Extension.