New Mexico
Monument of the people: The ancestral home of many New Mexico pueblos, Bandelier takes its name from the archaeologist who fought for its preservation
The Ancestral Puebloans in New Mexico once called an area on Pajarito Plateau in the Jemez Mountains home. In 1916, the federal government designated it part of the national park system and christened it Bandelier National Monument in order to preserve the Native American archeological sites there.