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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.
The Colorado River Indian Tribes (Mohave: Aha Havasuu, Navajo: Tó Ntsʼósíkooh Bibąąhgi Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bináhásdzo) is a federally recognized tribe consisting of the four distinct ethnic groups associated with the Colorado River Indian Reservation: the Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo. The tribe has about 4,277 enrolled members.
The Navajo people's tradition of governance is rooted in their clans and oral history. [12] The clan system of the Diné is integral to their society. The system has rules of behavior that extend to the manner of refined culture that the Navajo people call "walking in beauty". [13]
The Navajo now use the term in the sense of referring to "ancient people" or "ancient ones", [10] whereas others ascribe the meaning of Anasazi to "those who are different from our people"; (lit. Ana = "different from us" + asaza = "the old ones"). [11] Hopi people use the term Hisatsinom, meaning "ancient people", to describe the Ancestral ...
Native populations continue to grow. In 2020, 9.1 million people in the United States identified as Native American and Alaska Native, an increase of 86.5% increase over the 2010 census.They now ...
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Colorado had argued that siding with the Navajo Nation would undermine existing agreements and disrupt the management of the river. The Biden administration had said that if the court were to come ...
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 ...