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That is a garbled and incorrect reference to the origin of the word Navajo. In the Tewa language nava was an old word for cultivated field and hu meant the mouth of a canyon - so navahu was cultivated fields in the mouths of canyons. It does not mean "enemy of cultivated fields".

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