Navajo Indians

Contrary to some beliefs, it does Not mean raider or knife or anything else in Spanish. It comes from a Tewa Indian word (navahu or navahu'u - nava-"planted fields" hu- "mouths of canyons") for the Navajo people that the Spanish learned in the 1540s. It means fields in a river valley. They were called Apache de Navajo, "the Apache type people who farm feilds in river bottoms". Apache comes from a Zuni word for "enemies"

Hogan

the apalachee played an aggresive game. in the game there is a pole, on top of this wooden pole is a eagles nest. they used a ball stuffed with clay, this ball was wrapped with deerskin.this game was like soccer and basket ball combined.they had to kick the ball so that it hit the pole they would get extra points if they kicked it into the eagles nest.this game was played by men and boys.

Hogan

Manuelito

No, the sole purpose was to create a code that the Japanese could not break. Once WW2 ended there was no further use for it.

The Japanese were very good at breaking our codes, but when you used a "book code" with words of another language that they did not know it stymied them. The Navajo Code Talkers did not speak ordinary Navajo in their messages, they translated the messages to Navajo then encoded it using the memorized "book code" and spoke those Navajo words. Even when the Japanese had captured Navajo soldiers (who of course had no code talking training), they could recognize the words but the message was gibberish.

welcome to my home

Arizona,New Mexico,and Colorado

The Navajo are the largest tribe in America, more than 300,000 members in 2014. 75% live on the Navajo Nation or nearby but there are Navajo in every State except 3. If by "were" you mean long ago, then they lived in the area that is now Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado before those States existed as such. This is the area of the Navajo Nation today.

The churro sheep were sacred to the Navajo because they provided essential resources for their survival, including meat, wool, and hides. This breed was well-adapted to the arid environment of the Southwest, making it an integral part of Navajo culture and subsistence. Additionally, churro sheep hold spiritual significance, symbolizing resilience and connection to their ancestral heritage. The sheep are also tied to traditional ceremonies and practices, reinforcing their importance in Navajo life.

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Navajo traditional culture had and has a preference for oral transmission. As with most North American native cultures, they did not have a written language. Now they do, but still the preference for many people is oral for traditional knowledge and stories and ceremonies.

The "medicine men" the traditional Navajo ceremonial ritual leaders known in Navajo as Hataałii, must learn the ceremony and all the prayers and song exactly by heart without taking notes. It takes many years. Traditional stories are not supposed to be told in times when it is not winter so some feel they should not be written down.

There also is a deeper cultural preference for things to be in a dynamic symmetry of balanced forces rather than static. Writing them down prevents that dynamic balance between remembering something as exactly as you can and the gradual change that is necessary for things to live.

There also was a preference against permanent pictorial representation. Sand painting were swept up after the ceremony. People did not paint images on pottery or put it in rugs. There were many people who were upset when some other people started putting images in rugs and painting sandpainting designs for permanent display. Hoteen Klah (Navajo: Hastiin Tłʼa) was one of the earliest to do this. He was a medicine man (18167-1937) who felt important knowledge would be lost. Others thought it would make people sick or die.

The word Yatahey (yat ta hey ya) is Navajo for "Hello"

they drink lake water

The Navajo word for small or little is "yazzie", as in dibeh-yazzie (sheep-little) = lamb.

The standard spelling in the orthography that is now taught is:

"yázhí". The marks are high tone marks.

Navajo is a tonal language and needs tones to be correct. The zh sound is somewhere between z and the sound in the middle of the word "pleasure".

shí ashkii yázhí- "my little boy"

Most of these groups never aided each other. The Ute raided the Navajo for slaves to sell to the Spanish in Santa Fe. The Apache and Navajo are linguistic cousins but did not work together. The Navajo sometimes traded with the Hopi and other Pueblo groups and other times raided and fought with them.

The Navajo assimilated many cultural ideas and practices from the Pueblo peoples and made them their own. The Paiute to this day make ceremonial baskets used by the Navajo. There are seen to be too many cultural taboos to follow to do them right by many Navajo.

The Comanche had a kind of hegemonic empire and didn't cooperate or aid anyone. The Kiowa were a plains people and only would have had much contact with the Navajo except perhaps trading in places like Santa Fe. The Kiowa and Comanche sometimes had an alliance. The Kiowa- Apache ( an offshoot of the Apache) lived near and like the Kiowa but did not speak Kiowa rather used sign to communicate.

In sum, all of these groups lived in somewhat overlapping areas but would not be seen as "aiding" each other at most times.

it means "my older brother"

alot you should come visit window rock AZ where their is a museum and an arts & craft place where you can buy beautiful Navajo jewelry (expensive but worth it)

Bi'ootseed