Is the Navajo the tribe of hunters?

Answer 1

Not an easy question to answer. It depends on when you are speaking of the Navajo or which faction of Navajo you are speaking of. Today they are farmers and herders. There are Navajo hunters who are very good at hunting, with specific rituals and practices for when they hunt. Nor is it for sport, they hunt to eat not for trophies. Everything they do is with purpose and with a need to maintain balance and harmony with ones self and the community. They take only what they need from the land, and attempt to give back what they take. Thus maintaining balance with themselves and the land. They are hunters, but they are also gatherers, farmers and herders. Today they are construction workers, teachers, lawyers, doctors, mechanics and what ever you would find in any person that must survive in today's society. But they are still Dineh