How did the Navajos adapt to the southwest?

Answer 1

You mean, "How do the Navajos beliefs affect their daily lives?" You do know that they are still around right? The have the biggest reservation in the country, which extends into Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. They are very much still here.

Like all people, Navajo beliefs affect how they see and act in the world. This is a huge question. This is what Anthropologist do their while lives, try to understand how beliefs affect a certain people. There are many long and scholarly books on this subject and not one easy answer. Also, some Navajos are very traditional , others very Christian of many different denominations such as LDS, Catholic, Four Square Gospel, Presbyterian etc. Some mainly speak Navajo, some don't speak any. Some have lived their whole life on the Navajo Nation others have lived on and off or never lived there. A large number a members of the Native American Church, too.

However, for most Navajo who are somewhat traditional, Hózhǫ́ one of the central concepts that give the world meaning. It means roughly "beauty and harmony, peace, balance, happiness and contentment, wholeness, goodness"

It is a balance of moving parts into a peaceful beautiful whole. Because the world is a causal place with multiple forces the balancing of the symmetry to have this state is dynamic and always in flux. So people strive for Sa'ah naaghai bik'eh hózhǫ́. This means: continually moving into old age it is finished according to hózhǫ́. Seeing the world this way means there are not so much opposing forces as complementary forces out there. It makes one feel that one can always keep working for balance. It makes beauty have a central part in life. It views the world as very causal and individualist.

Another main idea is K'e, which is the relationships between everything and everyone. It is the maintenance of peaceful relationships through kinship and respect for self and others. There are principles and procedures to follow in order to maintain the balance of a peaceful coexistence in nature and in social groups. These principles and procedures work to establish relationships of goodwill and solidarity and they promote the creation of strong and enduring bonds.

So a traditional Navajo would be uncomfortable ordering others around. They would feel that one person or group should not benifit greatly without others also gaining.

Answer 2

I think it is as follows: Ilchohoo 'i - Hope

Answer 3

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