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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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Did the Navajo Indians disappear?
No. Today they are the largest tribe in the US with over 300,000 members. The Navajo Nation is the size of Holland and Belgium put together, 27,000 square miles. The Navajo Nation is doing well.
How do you say son in the Navajo language?
Shiyáázh--"my son" for a female speaker
Shiye' ---- "my son" for a male speaker.
niye', nihiye', biye', aye', yiye', ahiye', haye' danihiye'---your, their, his/her/it's, someones, 3rd person direct object, each other's son, fourth person, our sons
Who was in charge of the Navajo tribe?
The Navajo did not have a tribal chief or person in charge. Different men were important because they were wealthy, had many relatives and clan relations, and were good speakers and influential. They did not rule nor were they in charge however. The Navajo have a culture that puts a very, very high importance on personal autonomy.
Today the Navajo have a Tribal council with a Speaker to represent the 110 Chapters ( like counties) and a President and Vice President.
What games did the Lakota Sioux Indians play?
There were a variety of Sioux native American games. Some of these include croquet, cactus buffalo, pop gun, tops, as well as well as slingshot.
What is a second name for Navajo?
The Navajo language name for the Navajo people is Dine'. The mark over the "e" means it is higher tone and sounds to english speakers like it is stressed a little- di neh.
Other names are: Bíla'ashla'ii Dine'é, which means "five fingered people' but that is perhaps more a name for all humans. A spiritual name is Diyin Nohookáá Dine'é, which means "holy earth surface people". This was said to be the name given to the Navajo by the "Holy People", Diyin Dine'é. ( Spirits or gods might be another name for them.)
The name "Navajo" is said to be from a Tewa word meaning wide or valley fields. The Spanish called them Apachu de navajo meaning the Apache who farm in the valleys. They are a cousin of the Apache tribes. The word Apache is probably from Zuni.
Did or do the Navajo tribes farm?
Yes, they did and do farm. In fact one of the main thing that historically distinguishes the Navajo from their Apache cousins is more emphasis on settled farming and permanent homes called hogans. The Navajo live at between 6000 and 8000 feet on a high desert and mountain area. They did and do dry land corn squash and bean farming. They probably picked up the techniques from the Ancestral Pueblo peoples ( anasazi or Hisatsinom). Sometime after 1540 when Coronado brought 5000 sheep to what is now New Mexico or after 1598 when Don Juan de Onate brought 2,900, the Navajo gained sheep and horses. After the Pueblo revolt of 1680 they gained more. Sheep and weaving became very important to Navajo culture. As well as permanent homes near corn fields most people had summer camps to herd sheep up to graze in the summer.
Today some people still raise corn especially for culturally important uses like pollen and making special large cakes for a Kinaalda ceremony (first menstruation). People keep sheep and raise them for wool and meat.
The tribe also has modern agricultural. They run the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry (NAPI) and Navajo Indian Irrigation Project,( NIIP) and produce Navajo Pride brand potatoes and other products. They have a system of 508,000 acre-feet of water annually to irrigate 110,630 acres of farm land. They produce pinto beans, potatoes, flour from their own mill, alfalfa, corn, barley, oats, hay, produce animal feed, and are studying the growing of traditional plants for cultural and medicinal purposes.
How do you say children in Navajo?
You can say "family" in Navajo by saying: dah 'oonéłígíí
family members is: áłchíní
One family unit: t'ááłá'í hooghanígíí
"among the families of the community": dahootahgóó
Also the word K'é means: relatives, kinship, relationships, friendship peace.
In Navajo, people of the same clan can be refered to as family, i.e. "brothers" or "sisters", etc.
Clan is: dóone'é. This means your first (mother's) clan.
Your father's "born for" clan is: báshíshchíín. In the third person it is : yáshchíín
The rest of your clans are:
Maternal grandfather's clan is : dashicheii
Paternal grandfather's clan is: dashinalí
You introduce yourself in that order.
One way of introducing one's self to a group would be to say: shik'éí dóó shidine'é (my family and my people- friends)
There is no one word in Navajo that says "family" as I know it; however,
Shil hoz 'anigii may be the nearest translation meaning "what I am responsible for" includes responsibility to self, family, extended family, the community, material and animal possessions and finally the tie/responsibility to nature and the spiritual.
Where are the Navajo tribes located?
The Navajo is the largest tribe of Native Americans in the United States. The 17-million acre Navajo reservation includes land in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and a small part of Colorado. The Navajo Reservation is the largest reservation in the US.
What is the Navajo word for BIG boy?
Tsoh
It is often seen modifling nouns as in: tsísʼnátsoh ( bumble bee or big bee), mąʼiitsoh ( wolf or big coyote). Dibe' tsoh is the northern sacred mountain and it means big sheep.
Why were the code talkers important in American history?
They spoke Navajo in messages in the Pacific theater in WW2. The Japanese couldn't decode the messages so they were very important.
How do you my name is in Navajo?
There is not a "Native American" language, there are in fact over 4,000 of them and you would need to be more specific about the language before this could be answered.
(Ojibwe: _____ Ndizhnikaazh)
Who was one important leader of the Navajo Tribe?
Yes, they had naatʼáanii (leaders) such as Narbona, Manuleto, Barboncito, Hoskininni, Ganado Mucho and many others. However, the word for leader is very different than the feeling of the meaning of the English word "Chief". They lead by power of convincing followers and had no power to order people around. The had no hereditary leaders such as Scottish clans had. They had no leader that spoke for all the Navajo, just powerful men in certain areas. The very word in Navajo means one who moves something to maturity or growth not one who rules over others.
Which Indian tribe is famous for its woven blankets?
The Navajo are the most famous for their blankets. Their use of color and design was legendary, and the blankets were highly sought after. However, blankets were made by many, many tribes out of several different types of materials.
Cochise was a member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, and Geronimo was a member of the Bedonkohe Apache tribe. I am certain that there are others...
What is the blackfeet tribe like today?
The Blackfeet in the United States have a reservation in northwestern Montana, just east of the Rocky Mountains. The Blackfoot (same tribe, different name) also have a reserve in southwestern Alberta. There is a Blood (Kainah) reserve and a Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve farther north in Alberta.
Although (according to what population figures I've seen recently) about half of the regestered members of the tribes live on the reservation/reserves, the rest live nearby. Of course, some live far elsewhere. As far as what they are like today, it's like asking "What are the Dutch like today" or "What are Ethiopians like today" -- they are people who live their lives. Some are more involved in their traditional history, while others are more acculturated in American/Canadian society.
I'm less familiar with the Canadian side of things, but the American Blackfeet are undergoing something of a renaissance of traditional awareness, with lots of interest in reviving the use of their language. For more up-to-date information, I would visit the tribes' websites.
How do you say yes in Navajo language?
Aoo'
Pronounce the "a" in father and hold the "o" together but longer. The ' is a glottal stop so at the end of the aoo' pronounciation, you pause as in the middle of "oh,oh."
Try saying the English word "oat" and replace the t with a glottal stop.
What are the 29 original Navajo code talkers names?
1. Rex Pooyouma 2. Franklin Shupla 3. Floyd Dan 4. Travis Yaiva
Is the Navajo tribe a stationary tribe or a nomadic tribe?
The are not called "Eskimo Indians" the people from the north are Inuit, (which many years ago was then called Eskimo)and the native tribes are Cree and Chippewas.
The people are not nomadic, they have lived in the North for many centuries.
What are facts abut Navajo houses?
Traditional Dine' homes are called Hogan in English and Hooghan ( long o not u and the gh is a sound like the ch in Scottish) in Navajo language (Dine' Bizaad). They were usually made of logs ( some times stone too) with earth covering all or part of it. They are very energy efficient because of this. Now they are made of many materials. They always have the door facing east. This is the cardinal direction in Dine' culture and maps for them have east at the top not north. There are two types of hooghan, as there are most things in Navajo, male and female. The male ones are rare nowadays. They are more cone shaped. the more common ones are 6 or 8 sided. Besides the door to the east there is a smoke hole in the center. sometimes now they have windows but never to the north. If someone died in a hogan in the old days it was abandoned and a hole was broken in the north side to remove the body. You should never enter a abandoned hogan with a hole on the north side. When being built there are always four post , one for each direction. There is a special blessing ceremony after it is built. People still do all this rituals and more today. The hogan has important and deep cultural, philosophical and religious meaning in it's every part. Navajo religious rituals must take place in one.
