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Towering House Clan of the Navajo (2 C) This page was last edited on 22 May 2024, at 06:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Navajo Tourism Department; Navajo people: history, culture, language, art; Middle Ground Project of Northern Colorado University with images of U.S. documents of treaties and reports 1846–1931; Navajo Silversmiths, by Washington Matthews, 1883 from Project Gutenberg; Navajo Institute for Social Justice Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
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 ...
Manuelito was a prominent Navajo leader who rallied his nation against the oppression of the United States military. For several years he led a group of warriors in resisting federal efforts to forcibly remove the Navajo people to Bosque Redondo, New Mexico via the Long Walk in 1864.
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]
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 ...
Most of the people in these mixed groups spoke both languages. The headman of each band usually had two names, one from each culture. Therefore, the enemy Navajo to the north called both, the Tonto Apache and their allies, the Yavapai, Dilzhʼíʼ dinéʼiʼ – "People with high-pitched voices." The ethnic Europeans referred to the Yavapai and ...
Dion Begay, C.S.C.S., is a Navajo-born fitness trainer. Here, he addresses health disparities within Indigenous communities and how to help people live better.