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With more than 399,494 [1] enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1] [5] the Navajo Nation is the second largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. [6] The Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country.
In December 2010, the President and Navajo Council approved a proposal by the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA), an enterprise of the Navajo Nation, and Edison Mission Energy to develop an 85-megawatt wind project at Big Boquillas Ranch, which is owned by the Navajo Nation and is located 80 miles west of Flagstaff. The NTUA plans to ...
Henry Chee Dodge (c. 1860–1947), also known in Navajo by his nicknames Hastiin Adiitsʼaʼii ("Mister Interpreter") and Kiiłchííʼ ("Red Boy"), was the last official Head Chief of the Navajo Tribe from 1884 until 1910, the first Tribal Chairman of the Navajo Business Council from 1922 until 1928, and chairman of the then Navajo Tribal Council from 1942 until 1946. [1]
It is the Navajo belief that without our culture and language, the Gods (Diyin Dine’e) will not know us and we will disappear as a people. And the Navajo Nation is just one of many tribes that ...
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According to Navajo tradition, the infant Changing Woman (Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé), one of the best known Navajo deities, was found by the Holy People (Diyin Dineʼé) on top of Gobernador Knob (Chʼóolʼį́ʼí), located within Dinétah area. The region is also indicated as the place to which the first four Navajo clans arrived after their ...
The Navajo Nation has by far the largest land mass of any Native American tribe in the country. The figure surpasses the Cherokee Nation's enrollment of 392,000. The Oklahoma tribe has been ...
The Navajo Nation is currently the second largest tribe in the United States. The linguistic origins of the Navajo people trace back to the Alaskan Athabaskans who are the Native Alaskan people. The Navajo speak a form of Na-Dené , which is the language spoken by the Southern Athabaskan people.