Today, they are the largest tribe ( 300,000 in 2012) in the US with the largest land base (27,000 sq miles).
They are important in Southwest American history ans culture.
They were barely colonized and still live on part of their traditional lands so they retain most of their traditional culture, religion, philosophy and about 2/3 still speak the language.
Their philosophy and world view are famous.
They make famous jewelery, rug and blankets and art.
The Code Talkers were a group of Navajo who the Marine recruited to create a code with Navajo at it's base to use in communications over radio in the assaults across the Pacific against the Japanese. It was fast and highly effective and never broken. It was instrumental in the US success. It was top secret until 1969.
Today there are Navajo sports figures, artists, writers, poets, and scientists and political figures.
i guess because of what they had to go through and how they still survive and they are still here...i guess...idk
Navajo clothing was fashioned and made by the Navajo females
The proper adjective form for Navajo is Navajo, as in Navajo Nation, Navajo people, Navajo history, Navajo art, etc. An example sentence: We visited the Navajo display at the museum to see the Navajo jewelry.
The Diyin diné'é or Holy People are very, very important to the Navajo people. Perhaps the most important is Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé ( Changing Woman).
The Hopi people were generally peaceful people but they were often raided by the larger neighboring tribe, the Navajo.
Diné means people, man, or person in Dine' bizaad ( Navajo language). The mark over the e means it is high tone. Navajo is a tonal language. Sometimes people write it in English: Dineh because that is a little more how it sounds.
Yes, it is capitalized and it is not Navajo Indians. It is Navajo people.
The word Navajo is a noun, a proper noun; the name for the Navajo people of the southwestern US and the town of Navajo, NM. The word Navajo is also a proper adjective, for example Navajo language or Navajo art.A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun; for example:The Navajo are known for many crafts. They make world famous silver and turquoise jewelry. (The pronoun 'they' takes the place of the noun 'Navajo' in the second sentence.)
Navajo clothing was fashioned and made by the Navajo females
The modern US entity known as the Navajo Reservation was started in a much smaller land area with the Treaty of 1868 when the Navajo people were allowed to return home from imprisonment in Bosque Redondo. The people known as Navajo probably differentiated themselves from other Apachean groups around 9D0-1100 AD. Both traditional stories of emergence fro the world before and modern archeology agree with this approximate date.
There are two ways you can say "Navajo" in Navajo. Dinémeans "The People" in Navajo. The Navajo call themselves "Diné". Nabeehó is another way of saying Navajo.
the Navajo people in Southwestern United States
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The proper adjective form for Navajo is Navajo, as in Navajo Nation, Navajo people, Navajo history, Navajo art, etc. An example sentence: We visited the Navajo display at the museum to see the Navajo jewelry.
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dance
dumb people
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