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Also, the tribe gained an increase in the size of the Navajo reservation from 3.5 million acres (14,000 km 2; 5,500 sq mi) to 16 million acres (65,000 km 2; 25,000 sq mi) as it stands today. But economic conflicts with non-Navajos continued for many years as civilians and companies exploited resources assigned to the Navajo.
This is a list of Native American actors in the United States, including Alaskan Natives.. While Native American identity can be complex, it is rooted in political sovereignty that predates the creation of colonial nation states like the United States, Canada, and Mexico and persists into the 21st century recognized under international law by treaty.
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.
Peter McQueen, Muscogee Creek Nation chief, prophet, trader and warrior from Talisi (Tallassee, among the Upper Towns in present-day Alabama). Metacomet, Wampanoag chief; Miantonomo, Narragansett chief; Olotoraca (1548–1573), subchief of a tribe of Fort San Mateo, Florida. Oratam, sachem of the Hackensack Indians; Osceola, Seminole leader
People of Darkness is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the fourth in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, first published in 1980. It is the first novel in the series to feature Officer Jim Chee.
In 2022, AMC adapted Hillerman’s Navajo novels into a series titled Dark Winds. The show follows Lieutenant Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Deputy Chee (Kiowa Gordon) as they try to solve a string ...
Means' full Lakota name, Tatanka Wanbli Sapa Xila Sabe, means Black Buffalo Eagle. [29] Originally growing up with his mother in Chinle, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation, [1] Means now lives with his own family in New Mexico. [2] His wife Christine Means is a yoga instructor. The couple has one daughter.
In 2003 the tribe sued the federal government, arguing that it had failed to consider or protect the Navajo Nation’s water rights to the lower portion of the Colorado River.