This Week in History

February 26, 1919. The United States Congress passed an Act establishing the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona. The park is composed of over one million acres of Northwestern Arizona, including the spectacular are of the 277-mile canyon cut by the Colorado River. The region is still home to Native peoples. The Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Paiute, Havasupai and Hualapai.

Prior to the middle...