What were the Navajo tribes beliefs?

Answer 1

• The Navajo believe the creator placed them in the middle of four major mountains that represent the four cardinal directions.
• The Navajo believe that all living things, people, plants, animals, are their relatives. The Navajo are cautious of death, and will avoid human remains when possible and rarely talk about it.
• Many Navajo speak their own language? It is either called, "The Navajo Language", or "Athabaskan".
• The Navajo worship the winds, sun, and watercourses.

Answer 2

The Navajo traditional religion, Native American Church (NAC), and very many Christian domination's such as Catholic, Presbyterian, Four Square Gospel, Pentecostal, LDS, Dutch Reform and many others.

Today about 1/3 are NAC, 1/3 are Christan and 1/3 traditional only. However many people follow traditional religion as well as another so that number is much more like 2/3s. There are 300,000 Navajo.

The religion of the Navajo is a complex system system of 60 chantways that are designed to restore balance, harmony, health and happiness. Many last multiple days, take place in a hogan, sometimes include sandpaintings, chants, herbs, dance, songs, mythic stories told, prayers, blessing with pollen and they are led by a Hataałii (like a priest but often called a medicine man) who has studied for years to know the ceremonies exactly and by heart. The central concept in the religion are hózhǫ́ and k'é.

Answer 3

There are deities, or Holy People, that are referred to in ceremonies and in prayers.