Navajo Indians

Singing to the Lord or music in general is a form of worship. When you sing in church, you do not just sing and join the choir, but you prasie God with your voice, music, and rhytm. It's amazing how many people (mostly unbelievers) can sing their hearts out to worldly music, even jumping and raising their hands, but they can't even sing to praise the Lord who gave up His life to save theirs. What a shame. ;

; Exodus 15 : 20-21 : And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels ...... ;

Psalms 150 : 4 : Praise him with the timbrel....... :

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The Navajo indians were friendly up until you mistreat them or put their tribe in danger

I know for sure the Apache used it, I am still trying to figure out the same thing, but all I've found out is that the Apache were skilled at throwing the tomahawk, were the first gorilla (misspelled) force fighters in U.S. history, smart, cunning, called Apache meaning the-enemy, and were the best knife fighters in history and the record has not yet been broken.

they were nomads and farmed some gardens using Indian slaves captured in battles. all the Indians had an agreement to not hunt in the Kentucky area due to there was a 7 year cycle of game growth. when the lean years happened ,they needed an area where the game was not used to being hunted so they could depend on feeding their tribes. when Daniel Boone entered the Kentucky game preserve to bring in settlers he was arrested by captain jack, the Indian game warden. after a few years tho the settlers kept moving in and the Indians were starved out.

This is a tough question. As the Sioux made up about 1/4th of the tribes in North America. They used their lands different thru out the Sioux nations. The Sioux stretch from the plains all the way up and down the east coast.

No, traditionally, eating fish was taboo to Navajos.

I think they were used for their language. Since foreign countries/enemies did not know the Navajo language, the U.S. Marines used their language to develop a code to send important messages to each other. Another Navajo would decipher and deliver to an American. Even Navajo speakers could not understand the code which would sound like ungrammatical lists of words.. It could be used very rapidly , unlike code books or machines. It was used in the Pacific theater from 1942 onwards. It was also used in the Japanese Occupation and the Korean war. It was declassified in 1968. 29 original Navajo developed the code and about 400 learned and used it. Many other Navajo served in the US military. 44,000 native American Indians served in WWII

Shi tsi' = my daughter (father response)

Bi tsi' = his daughter

Shi ch'e' ii = my daughter (mother response)

Bi ch' e' ii = her daughter

Yes the Cherokee Indians Did in fact use bows and arrows.

They were hunter gatherers, and excellent raiders.

i have know idea XD

The Navajo people (Dine' in their language) live and have always lived since they became distinct as Navajo people in what is now the American Southwest. The land is mainly high desert plateau. Traditionally the boundaries were the four sacred mountains known today in English as Mt Blanca in Co, Mt Taylor in NM, San Francisco Peaks in AZ and Mt Hesperus in Co. Most of the area is above 4000 ft and below 7500 ft but some peaks are at 10,000. The temperature, precipitation and vegetation varies with elevation. There are lakes and rivers and mesas and mountains and deserts. The Navajo Nation today is 23,000 sq miles, about the size of New England without Maine. There is a month or so of summer "monsoon" rainy thunderstorms in the summer. There is snow in the winter. Pine and fir are higher up. Pinon pine and juniper steppe in the midrange and desert climate in the lower areas. In the higher areas it are a low 4 degrees and a high of 80. The annual rainfall there is from 16 -27 inches. Middle is low of 10F and high of 88 in the summer with 12-16 inches of rain. Lowest areas it is low of 11 and high of 110 with 7-11 inches of rain.

Horses were very important to the Cherokee, and they still are. However, current reservations are getting increasingly more reliant on technology, so fewer will have a large number of horses as they do not have to rely on them as much.

But in the past, horses were of great importance to the Cherokee and other tribes!

Animal in Dine' bizaad (Navajo) is naaldeehii or naaldlooshii ( an animal other than human).

Prounouced sort of like: naal-de-he or naal-dlo-she.

I'm not really sure what the distinction between beast and animal is in English. ONe can be used in a negative way but that doesn't happen in Navajo.

The early Anasazi clothed themselves in fur or turkey-feather robes, string aprons, loincloths and roundtoed, plant-fiber sandals. They wore ornaments made out of shells, bone, or stone. Anasazi men wore no clothing in hot weather, but did wear a belt of woven hair and grasses from which they hung their tools and other necessities. The women wore a type of breech cloth with a waistband woven of hair. From this waistband hung a long and narrow "apron" which was made of a wide border of highly decorated fingerweaving which ended in hundreds of strands of loose yucca fiber. In cold weather, "wrap-arounds" or "robes" were used by everyone, and were made of buckskin or turkey feathers. Everyone also wore sandals woven of yucca and hemp. The Anasazi loved jewelry and feathers of all types and they often incorporated them into the decoration of their clothing.

I have yet to hear about a tribe that did not value the horse. Horses equated into power. Survival was easier with the horse. Hunting, waging war, being able to outrun a preditor.

The use of bilingual Navajo- English speakers to create codes that were able to be rapidly encoded and decoded but unbreakable to non-Navajo speakers, meant military could send real time battle orders over open radios to direct assaults across the Pacific. Other methods of coding took 20 to 30 minute per message at the time. Using a simple code in a unknown language with bilingual speakers made rapid communication possible. It is almost impossible to decode an unknown language. Also as a extra benefit, Navajo is tonal with some very unusual and difficult consonants. For a non-native speaker to replicate it or even transcribe it would be very difficult. A non- native speaker would be immediately obvious. There was no code book to capture as we did with one of the Japanese Naval codes. There was no mistakes they could make that would help decoded them as we used to break another Japanese coded. Also, even if a Navajo speaker was captured the simple code would make it nonsense to him. This did happen with a soldier in captured in the Philippines. If they had been able to talk with him and trick him over a long time to teach them Navajo they might of gained some headway. However, the Japanese who thought it might be a native Indian language, tortured him which (as usual in these cases) got them no where. The US agents had a great deal of success by not using such methods but by making the Japanese POW feel safe. Because we had speakers of Japanese we could also use things like frequency analysis of their codes. The Japanese could not do that back.

Hogans (hoghan in Navajo) were made of logs and earth. Today they are also made of stone and modern building materials sometimes. They always have the door to the east. There are never any openings to the north. If someone dies inn the hogan a hole is broken in the north side to take out the body and the hogan is abandoned.They have a smokehole in the top. They always traditionally start with four poles, one for each direction. They are usually six or eight sided. Often the logs then are laid log cabin style for the walls then corbeled in to make the roof which is covered with earth for insulation. There are traditional areas and directions in the hogan where each activity is supposed to take place, ie: cooking, eating, sleeping. They are hoagns that are male and those that are female. Most one today are female. The male ones are more cone shaped. The floor should be earth or have access to the earth for religious reasons. The are traditional blessing ceremonies that are still done when a hogan is built. Most traditional religious ceremonies need to take place in part in a hogan. The first hogan is said to havve been made bby Asdzaan Nadlehe ( Changing Woman) one of the principal deities of the Navajo people.

The code itself was a very simple one. However, Navajo was spoken by very few people who were not Navajo and none of them lived outside the US. There were almost no books on the language published outside of the US. Navajo is very difficult for non Athabascan language speakers. Both the consonants and grammar and tones are hard for many people to say or hear. The code used Navajo as a basis but was not normal spoke Navajo so even if a Navajo member of the US military was captured it would sound like nonsense. It was very easy for Navajo speakers to learn and translate into English. Therefore the could use open radio frequencies and decode the message much faster than other coding methods. This made it extremely useful to send messages to direct the attacks on islands across the Pacific against the Japanese. It is thought that without it some battle might not have been won at a important period in the war. In the Battle of Iwo Jima six code talkers sent 800 messages over two days with no errors.

The Japanese did capture a Navajo, Joe Kieyoomia, in the Philippines in 1942. However, when he reported he could not understand the code, instead of working with him and a cryptographer, in which case they probably would have been able to crack it, they tortured him instead and therefore got no useful information.

This was a 450 mile trek that lasted about 22 days . At least 200 Navajos died of cold and starvation. 53 different groups of Navajo made the trip there. Each group walked a slightly different route. Between 8,000 and 9,000 people traveled the route with a peak population of 9,022 in Bosque Redondo by the spring of 1865. After they arrived at the Fort Sumner New Mexico, many more died. The land was not suitable to agriculture and neither were the Navajos so four years later, the government allowed the Navajo to return to their homes.

Actually more than 3,500 navajos died of starvation, cold weather, no food or water, no medicines. but the trip actually took 18 days because some of the army 'privates' forced the navajos to walk 20 miles a day or in some cases more.

It is thought that more than 12,000 Native Americans served in the US military in WWI. Other sources believe the number was 17,313. Of that 11,80 registered prior to our entry into the war and 6,509 were inducted after the start. They didn't record tribal membership but it is known that Navajo served along with many others. It is estimated the number of Navajo was about 200.

Most were not citizens during WWI. One of the reasons for the 1919 and 1924 acts granting citizenship was Native service during the war.

There was a silent movie made in 1925 about a Navajo veteran who returns from WWI. It portrays the difficultly of coming home. It was called "The Vanishing American" by George Seitz. It was based on a Zane Grey story published in November 1922 as a serial in Ladies' Home Journal.