The canyon has been a site of value, beauty, adventure, peace, and even home far longer than it has been a national park. For thousands of years the canyon has sustained a wide variety of cultures and people as each in turn claimed it as their own and grew to know and love its gifts and challenges.

This medallion recognizes and honors the 11 Traditionally Associated Tribes that have known the canyon as a home and provider as well as site of continued cultural importance to this day.