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The Navajo [a] or Diné, are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.. With more than 399,494 [1] enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1] [4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country.
Before 1700, the name was vague. Between 1720 and 1726, it referred to Apache between the Rio Grande, the Pecos River, the area around Santa Fe, and the Conchos River. After 1726, Faraones only referred to the groups of the north and central parts of this region. The Faraones like were part of the modern-day Mescalero or merged with them.
Navajo Wars (c. 1600–1866) Crown of Castile (c. 1600–1716) Spain (1716–1821) Mexico (1821–48) United States (1849–66) Navajo: Long Walk of the Navajo (1863–68) Navajos moved to reservations; Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1610–46) English colonists Powhatan Confederacy Treaty of Middle Plantation; Pequot War (1636–38) Massachusetts Bay Colony
The various dialects of Western Apache (which they refer to as Ndéé biyáti’ / Nnéé biyáti’) are a form of Apachean, a branch of the Southern Athabaskan language family. The Navajo speak a related Apachean language, but the peoples separated several hundred years ago and are considered culturally distinct.
The Navajo occupation of the region has been divided by archaeologists into two major phases - the Dinétah phase (ca. 1500-1630), which includes the entrance and settling of the area by the Navajo, and the Gobernador phase (ca. 1630-1800), during which time the Navajo culture became fully defined. The difference between the two phases has been ...
The Americas, Western Hemisphere Cultural regions of North American people at the time of contact Early Indigenous languages in the US. Historically, classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is based upon cultural regions, geography, and linguistics.
The culture thrived from 2200 BCE to 700 BCE, during the Late Archaic period. [16] Evidence of this culture has been found at more than 100 sites, from the major complex at Poverty Point, Louisiana (a UNESCO World Heritage site) across a 100-mile (160 km) range to the Jaketown Site near Belzoni, Mississippi.
New Mexicans of all ethnicities were commonly enslaved by the Comanche and Apache of Apacheria, while indigenous New Mexicans were commonly enslaved and adopted Spanish language and culture. These Natives, called Genízaros , served as house servants, sheep herders, and in other capacities in New Mexico including what is known today as Southern ...