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  2. Navajo song ceremonial complex - Wikipedia

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    The Enemy Way ceremony involves song, sandpainting, dance, and the powerful mythical figure Monster Slayer. [10] The ceremony lasts for several days and includes the enacting of a battle. [11] Associated with the Enemy Way is a Girl's Dance, to which young men are invited by marriageable young women. [12]

  3. Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé - Wikipedia

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    Her parents were Long Life Boy and Happiness Girl, who "represent the means by which all life passes through time." [3] She is associated with a young Navajo woman's entry into puberty, and the kinaalda, a four-day rite at that time. Changing Woman is celebrated in the Blessing Way, a Navajo prayer ceremony that brings fortune and long life. [3]

  4. Nádleehi - Wikipedia

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    Nádleehi is a social and, at times, ceremonial role in Diné (Navajo) culture [1] – an "effeminate male" or "male-bodied person with a feminine nature". [2] [3] However, the nádleehi gender role is also fluid and cannot be simply described in terms of rigid gender binaries. [2]

  5. Gender roles among the Indigenous peoples of North America

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    Similar to other Indigenous cultures, Navajo girls participate in a rite of passage ceremony that is a celebration of the transformation into womanhood. This event is marked with new experiences and roles within the community. Described as Kinaaldá, the ritual takes place over four days, during the individual's first or second menstrual period.

  6. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian - Wikipedia

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    It had to offer the public an opportunity to sense the beauty, dignity, and profound logic of Navajo religion. Their chosen architect, William Penhallow Henderson, based his design on the hooghan (the hogan), the traditional Navajo home and the setting for Navajo ceremonies. Klah blessed the ground on which the museum is built but died a few ...

  7. Stereotypes. Taboos. Critics. This Navajo cultural advisor is ...

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    Navajo cultural advisor George R. Joe explains the painful history, and present-day controversies, that shaped his work on AMC crime drama 'Dark Winds.' Stereotypes. Taboos.

  8. Navajo Nation’s quest for water and justice arrives at the ...

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  9. Legislation seeks to repeal the Navajo Nation’s ban on same ...

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    In June, Navajo Nation Council Del. Seth Damon introduced legislation to repeal parts of a 2005 tribal law, the Diné Marriage Act, which outlawed same sex-marriages.