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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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How do you say November in Navajo language?
Níłch'its'ósí: November. It means the month of slender winds.
Ts'ósí means slender.
Níłch'i means wind or breath or spirit.
December is month of big winds. It is the second month of the Navajo calender.
If you go to youtube you can hear people pronouncing this month correctly. This month is hard to say for native English speakers.
How do you say Navajo numbers?
Let's start with 1-10:
1. tʼááłáʼí or łáá'ii
2. naaki
3. táá'
4. dį́į́'
5. ashdla'
6. hastą́ą́
7. tsosts'id
8. tseebíí
9. náhást'éí
10. neeznáá
I hope the nasal vowels show up for everyone. For more information, see related links.
What is the Navajo word for maternal grandmother?
Sitsóí-
my maternal grandchildren
Shinali=
my paternal grandchildren
Sitsóóké- my grandchildren
Sitsi'- my daughter (male speaking)
Shiye'- my son (male speaking)
Shich'é'é- my daughter (female speaking)
Shiyáázh -my son (female speaking)
Why did the Navajo long walk happen?
The larger answer is: The Long Walk was part of the larger effort by the US government to remove all the native peoples from their lands in order to take them for settlers use and for the resources on them.
The Navajo answer might be: as in the previous worlds that they emerged from, fighting in this world led to becoming no longer in a state of hózhǫ́. This led to disaster.
The proximate answer is: After Narbona was killed in 1849 the Navajo came into conflict more and more with the new American government and settlers who had come with the end of the Mexican American war. The American army established forts in Navajo lands, something the Mexicans and Spanish had not done. They tried to reduce Navajo lands with the treaty of 1858 and a pro Navajo Indian agent was reassigned to West Point at that time.
William T. H. Brooks of the U.S. Army began a destructive cycle of raids and counter-raids with the Navajo culminating in the near-sacking of Fort Defiance by approximately 1,000 Navajo warriors under the leadership of Manuelito and Barboncito on April 30, 1860.
Colonel Manuel Chaves, commander of Fort Wingate had 30 Navajo killed in a dispute over a horse race. After that plans for the Long Walk began by General James H. Carleton. The Bosque Redondo "reservation" or internment camp was established on October 31, 1862 by Congress.
But it probably would not have happened if then the Civil War was coming to New Mexico. This brought Carleton into power in New Mexico and he instituted his plan once the Rebels in New Mexico had been easily defeated and there was little else for his command to do.
Some people think:
"I think that will depend upon who you ask. Two things comes to mind surrounding this event with the Navajo and the current dominant culture: first, invading Europeans firmly believed in "Manifest Destiny" and for the Navajo it was the beginning of the effects of spiritual disconnectedness from Diety."
How do you say i love you forever in Navajo?
all i know is that ayóí ánóshní or ayoo aniinish'ni or ayóí íínísh'ní means i love u in Navajo :) hope this helps!! (to have him/her always in mind)
hoolʼáágóó is the Navajo word for forever.
Hoolʼáágóó ałch'odanii'níi dooleeł. -- "we will always be friends forever"
hoolʼáágóó ayoo aniinish'ni --- I love you forever.(maybe. This may be in the wrong tense or mode. It may need to be in the optative or iterative or usative or future mode.)
What is the Navajo translation for sweet one?
Perhaps: Łikání or Łikánii or Łikánígíí
It depends on what sort of way you mean "one". There are some other ways as well.
Her sweetheart is: be'ashkii, his sweetheart--be'at'ééd (his/her boy or girl)
The Navajo today have an elected President, Vice President and an elected tribal council with representatives from different geographic areas and a judiciary. The idea of "chief" is not a Navajo concept in the sense of a inherited leadership role. The word for leader in Navajo is naat'áanii. The word is a modification of the word nit'áh and means something that guides growth, or directs it, by means of a process. Historically there was no unified leadership. There were influential men and women who were good speakers and had much livestock and good clan relationships. They were listened to, they could not order people around. Leadership was practiced as follows: 1) Thought process and planning; 2) implementation and actualization of planning; 3) the period of change that follows action; 4) the reiteration of the planning for improvement. These qualities are practiced as people direct themselves about the way they live their life. In general, the Navajo moral blueprint is that of hózhǫ́, or the balanced and beautiful way.
During the Long Walk in 1864-8 the Americans demanded there be "chiefs" to have a few people to deal with. There have been various structures used since that time. band and clan leadership, the early councils of medicine men, then onto the Navajo Business Council in the 1920s, and then the subsequent iterations of the Tribal Council that have led up to today's Navajo Nation Council (complete with balances a checks in the Presidency and Judiciary branches).
What effect did World War II have on Navajo Indians?
Deaths and injuries to Native Americans were at a much high proportion in World War II. Also, many of them did not receive proper care after returning from the war.
How do you say thunder in Navajo?
Tornado in Navajo is: níyoltsoh or naats'ó'oołdísii
( the marks above the vowels are high tone marks, not accent or stress. The mark between is the glottal stop consonant. We have it in uh'oh. The ts' sound we don't have. Hold your breathe in your throat and make a explosive ts sound. Similar to in "it's". i is as in "bit". ii is as in "bee". aa is held longer than a. The final h is said. The L with a line is in Welsh but not in English.)
Why did the Navajo Indians use turquoise in their jewelry?
Turquoise is one of the four Navajo sacred jewels or gems. Each is associated with a direction, mountain, color, season, holy people (spiritual beings), time of day and part of life. The directions and mountains are always listed east, south, west, and north. Turquoise is the gem for the southern mountain which is Mount Taylor near grants New Mexico. The Navajo name is Tsoodzil. It marks the southern boundry. It's color is blue. It is covered in dark mists and female rain (soft misty rain). Cougar is the protector. It is also represents mid day, summer, the time of life when you have kids. Turquoise is featured in many parts of the creation stories and has multiple levels of symbolic meaning.
One explanation for silver and turquoise jewelry is that the stone represents the scared and the silver the secular thereby making a complementary dynamic whole symbolically. (Witherspoon)
Here is a quote from the Dine' Bahane' (navajo creation myth)
"In the South they re-created Tsoodził, Blue Bead, or Turquoise Mountain. They adorned it with turquoise. They adorned it with dark mist. They adorned it with animals. They adorned it with light clouds that bring female rain. From two stones they had brought with them they fashioned Dootłʼizhii Náyooʼałí Ashkii, the Boy Who Is Bringing Back Turquoise, and Naadą́ą́ʼ ląʼí Náyooʼáłí Atʼééd, the Girl Who Is Bringing Back Many Ears of Corn. They were created to reside there forever."
How did Navajo code talkers change the war?
Their language (Navajo's) was very hard to understand and it was just as hard to learn. It made it very easy for the Navajo to send secret messages in aide to the Americans.
Navajo indians are from where?
The Navajo say they came from three (or four) worlds before (and below) this one. They feel they were created to live where they are today between the four sacred mountains. Some people think the other worlds symbolically records migrations. People who speak related languages live in northern Canada and Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and northern California.
Most people think that before the Navajo were Navajo (corn growing, weaving people of the southwest living in hogans and using corn pollen to pray and having elaborate ceremonies) they and their linguistic cousins the Apache came from somewhere to the north. What route and when is in much dispute. There are early Athabaskan remains in the Southwest that have been found dated in the 1200s and perhaps as early as the 900-1100s.
The Navajo count their generations as a full lifespan of 102 years. By their count they emerged from the world before around the 1100 or 1200s. By the 1300 there is evidence of people who are starting to be recognizably Navajo and not like other southern Athabaskan groups. There are other stories about clans created on the Pacific coast who came west. Perhaps Athabaskans did come from there and join the Navajo. There certainly were well established trade routes to the Pacific and Abalone shell is culturally important to the Navajo who live no where near it.
In any case they were there when the Spanish first went into the area in the 1600s and have been there every since.
Why did they choose the Navajos for war?
Because they were patriots, had a warrior tradition and were good Americans. __________________________________________________ The U.S. military wanted the help of Navajo Code Talkers because their language was sophisticated and was a good candidate for coding messages without the Japanese being able to crack it easily.
What customs did the Navajo learn from the Hopi?
The Navajo lived near the Hopi on the high Colorado Plateau and still do. The ancestors of today's Navajo arrived in the high desert area when the Hopi and Anasazi were farming there. They learned dry-land corn, beans and squash agriculture and weaving from the Hopi and other Pueblo groups. One could say that this is when the Navajo became Navajo and different from other Athabaskan people. This happened around 900 to 110 years ago according to Navajo traditional stories and modern archeology. Also, many of the Navajo clans have roots in Hopi and other Pueblo people. From the Navajo clan stories and names it seems that about 36 out of 72 clans have origins in one woman or man from an other tribal group who married in to the Navajo. This is in part because for the Navajo to marry into any of the four clans of one's grandparents (or related clans) is considered incest. Therefore there is pressure to out marry. A further reason is that after the Pueblo revolt of 1680 some people fled to and joined the Navajo, some permanently some for a while. Also, After the Hopi destroyed the Hopi village of Awatovi in 1700 some of the survivors fled and joined the Navajo in the Chinle valley area as well.
The Pima (Akimel O'odham is their own name), live far to the south in low land deserts. The Akimel O'odham are thought to be descended from the Hohokam (which means "The Ancestors"). They were a sophisticated people who practiced irrigated agriculture for hundreds of years in what is now the greater Phoenix area centered on the Gila and Salt river basins. They traded with the Hopi, Anasazi, Mogollon and later the Navajo peoples but were pretty far away both in distance, culture and environment..
How do you say dog of winter in Navajo?
hai is the word for winter in Dine' bizaad (Navajo language).
Note the vowels are low tone. If you say it high tone as in "háí " it becomes the word for "who"
Winter is the time when stories can be told. When the thunder sleeps. It is the time people get ready hay for livestock and get supplies ready for big winter snow storms and muddy roads.
How did the Navajo and Apache affect the Pueblos?
They traded and with them and the raided them so far that is all I know.
Navajos learned many customs from the Hopis including how to build dome-shaped shelters called?
hogans
What is the the population of Navajo county in 2011?
Navajo County, AZ is the 9th largest of the 15 counties in the state of Arizona. As of the most recent census, the population of Navajo County was 107,322.
They live currently in the four corners (Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico) as they have for centuries up to at least 1100 years before today. The Navajo Nation actually comprises the largest reservation in the US.
Were did the navaho's fisherman fish at?
It was taboo to eat fish or other water animals so there were no Navajo fishermen in the past. Now some people fish.
The Diné bizaad (Navajo Language) word for wind or spirit or air or soul is: Ních'i
The marks above the vowels are high tone marks. The mark between the ch and i is a consonant. The l with a line through it is similar to a double ll sound in Welsh. It is a aspirated unvoiced L.
