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Navajo Indians
One of the largest of the Native American Tribes, they lived in the Southwest of the United States and Northern Mexico.
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What is the Navajo spelling for storyteller?
baa hashne' or baa nahashne'is to tell a story about it.
To be telling stories is: hweshnih
A story is hane' or bahane'
Usually is Navajo use use verbs not nouns but to make " one who does it" add ii on the end. Baa nahashne'ii or Hweshnihii
What did the Navajo use to make sand paintings?
Navajo sandpaintings are used in healing ceremonies. The paintings often depict the Holy People and are considered to be living entities. The medicine man chants while creating the painting to ask the Holy People to come into it and heal the sick.
Authentic sandpaintings are sacred and must be destroyed after use. They are not to be made for any purpose except spiritual ones. Souvenir sandpaintings are created with errors so as to not offend the holy people.
What part of the country do the Navajo Indians live in?
The Navajo people lived in the southwestern US. They still live in their traditional territory, in the four corners area of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. The Navajo tribe is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States.
How do you say beautiful woman in Navajo?
Cheyenne, like most Algonquian languages, has no adjectives in the way that English does. Instead verb forms are used; verb forms make up the major part of the language. You have to use a verb that means literally "she is [being] beautiful" or "she is [being] very beautiful".
she is beautiful..................e-ono'aha (or e-peva-tamaahe)
she is very beautiful..........e-mo'ona-tamaahe
it is beautiful......................e-mo'ona'e
How did the Navajo Indians travel?
There is no irrefutable proof yet, but most ancient historians believe they came over from Asia during a time that the Bering Straights were iced over. Thousand years ago, the ice connected Alaska and Russia. Asian traveled on the freezing ice to North Americas. They became Indians or Native Americans. Today the ice is melting and we can not walk across it anymore.
What material is Navajo clothing made out of?
In order to obtain materials for making Navajo pottery you must first learn songs and prayers for removing clay and items for the pottery. these songs are for the dine deties that govern harmony for ones self. with out these songs and prayers you maybe come sick and disablities may occur. the earth and humans must live in harmony and respect must be given. Only people that have pottery and items may show you if you ask them for assistants.
Travis Manygoats, Navajo potter
Good Bye in the Navajo language?
hágoónee'
The marks over the o means those are high tone. when a high tone is after a low it means rising tone. Two vowels in a row mean you sustain the sound longer. The mark at the end is a consonant called a glottal stop. We have it in the middle of the English phrase uh'oh.
What does the Navajo origin legend show the origin of?
It describes Navajo creation stories. It is called the Diné bahaneʼ in Navajo. It is very complex and has many parts and versions. There is a English language translation available, ( see attached link). In broad outline it describes the creation and travels of creatures and people and Holy People (deities) and geography and mountains and plants. In most versions it goes through four worlds, three before this one. In a few versions this is the fifth world. Each successive world is more complete, complex, ordered and beautiful. In each world arguments or fighting or breaking taboos cause the problems that lead to the need to escape up into the next world. In each world new knowledge and rituals are gained. Each world is described as having a dominate color. Color in Navajo thought is related to directions, sacred mountains and certain qualities and deities. The first world (Nihodilhil) is black, the second (Ni'hodootl'izh) is blue, the third (Nihaltsoh) is yellow, and this is the glittering or white world (Nihalgai) . The emergence place is called "Hajinei". Many people say this place is somewhere in the La Plata Mountains, in Colorado.
In this world the six sacred mountains are reestablished, Changing Woman is born and then she gives birth to the hero twins who rid the world of monsters, except for a few like Cold and Hunger, Poverty and Death. They leave those because without cold it would always be hot and the would be no snow or water in the summer for plants, without hunger there will be no pleasure in eating and feasting, without poverty nothing will wear out and no one will create new things, without death the people will never increase and there will only be old people.
Changing woman creates the first four Navajo clans and sends them to the Dinetah.
There is much more but this is the outline. All of it is seen as having 12 levels of deeper and deeper meaning. The surface, literal story is for children and simple minds. At core it is about the complex Navajo ideas of Są́'ah naaghaii bik'eh Hǫ́zhǫ́ǫ́ and inner and outer forms, male and female, dynamic symmetrical balance and K'e.
What are facts about Navajo Indian heritage culture and chiefs?
There are many interesting facts about the Navajo Indian heritage, culture, and chiefs.
One fact about chiefs is that chiefs were chosen by a tribal council. A chief was a leader in the tribe and only men were able to be chiefs.
The Navajo, or the Diné, are family oriented. Most of their traditions and games were developed because of their love for the land. They have many ceremonies and rituals, in fact, almost every act of their lives is is a ceremony. Ceremonies include 9 day ceremonies for the treatment of ills, mental and physical; ceremonies for planting of crops; ceremonies for the building of a hogan.
Sandpainting, songs, and prayers are part of the ceremonies. Color is also important and each color has several different symbolic meanings. Colors can define the direction or the time of day.
How do you spell please in Navajo language?
Historically is has also been spelled "Navaho". That is how English speakers heard it. Navajo is the Spanish derived spelling. They got it from a Tewa word meaning "fields in the river bottoms".
Navajo speakers spell the Navajo Nation :" Naabeehó Bináhásdzo". In Navajo it is: Diné bikéyah or Dinétah. Dinéis the Navajo word for Navajo people.
What do Navajo Indians grow and hunt?
Since you ask what do they grow and hunt...today, some Navajo have vegetable gardens and some are farmers and they grow corn, wheat, soybeans and other crops and raise sheep and goats. Some still hunt sheep, pronghorn antelopes, deer and elk. Some even go on safari in Africa and hunt elephants but most prefer to buy their food at the grocery store.
In older times people grew corn, beans, squash, peaches, chillies, melons, cotton, turkeys, onions and raised sheep and goats. They hunted rabbits, prairie dogs, deer, antelope, elk, buffalo very occasionally since they mainly weren't in their area. They gathered pinon pine nuts, sumac berries, wild greens and seeds and other berries, yucca fruit and cactus fruit. They did not fish or hunt bear or most birds as they were taboo.
naaki - Two or naaki go - There are two or naaki iish - Is there two?
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How many people the Navajo tribe are left today?
There are about 150,000 Sioux. Some live in white towns and cities, some on the reservations, what is left of their country. Only 14% can speak their own language, which was not allowed to be taught at school till 1978!!
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Who are famous people of the Navajo?
After viewing a site that deals directly in spotting celebrities with Native American descent, it is known that there is a good sized sampling of Cherokee descendants among Hollywood. Brian Austin Green from Beverly Hills 90210 is one of these descendants. Carmen Electra is also rumored to be of Cherokee ancestry.
Why does the entrance to the Navajo hogan face east?
The door faces east because that is where the gods gather in the morning and it brings good fortune and wealth.
What are the stages of Navajo creation?
On the morning of the twelfth day the people washed themselves well. The women dried themselves with yellow cornmeal; the men with white cornmeal. Soon after the ablutions were completed they heard the distant call of the approaching gods. It was shouted as before, four times - nearer and louder at each repetition - and after the fourth call, the gods appeared. Blue Body and Black Body each carried a sacred buckskin. White Body carried two ears of corn, one yellow, one white, each covered at the end completely with grains.
What is the capital of Navajo reservation?
The origin of the word Navajo comes from the Spanish conquistadors who, in their travels into the North American continent, used this as a curse word because the Indigenous people would steal their horses under the cover of darkness. The slang word is loosely translated as 'underminers' or 'those who cut from under'. To the strict, true-blooded Dine' the word is akin to using the 'N-word' to defame Black Americans.
How do you say face in Navajo?
aniiʼ -- someones face
shiniiʼ - my face
niniiʼ -- your face
biniiʼ-- his/her/it's face
And so on..... to plural and dual plural.
In Navajo this is a type of word that must be in the possessive. It has to belong to something or someone. If not it is ungrammatical.
The mark at the end it a glottal stop which is a consonant we only use in the phrase uh oh between the two parts. Navajo is a tonal language and this word is low tone, don't make one part higher or with more stress. The double vowel means the e sound at the end is drawn out longer.
How do you say thank you in native American?
migwe'c (megwitch)
Thank You
David, member of The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
In Navajo (Diné bizaad) you say: ahéheeʼ
The mark above the e is a high tone mark, not an accent or stress. The h is said with a harsh breathy exasperated sound.
What are Navajo people known for?
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
Where did the Navajo Indians live?
no they lived in the four corners
This is Wrong! There are many mountains in the four corners area where the Navajo people and the Navajo lands are. The four sacred mountains and Navajo Mountain (10,388 ft- I've climbed it!) are very tall and can be seen from far away. The Chuska ( 9,823ft) and Lukachukai have snow , tall pine trees and lakes. The highest point in them is 9,466 feet.
When did the Navajo come into America?
Answer:
Although the Navajo Nation is presently in the American states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is 27,000 sq miles. Anthropologists and archeologists have traced their origins back to the northwesten part of North America (largely in Alaska, the Yukon, and the NWT) and a tribe of Athapaskan tribes known as the Dene or Dene-ta. In fact the Navajo refer to themselves as Diné. It is thought they entered the Southwest and took up the cultural habits that make them distinctly Navajo ( corn growing, hogan living, Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé and hózhǫ́ based religion led by hataałii, four sacred mountains) around 900-1100 CE
What are the names of the existing Navajo code talkers in 2012?
As of late 2007, there are less than a handful of the original code talkers left but there are reported to be about 70 living from the 400 or so code talkers who were eventually employed by the government.
