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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 pinon seeds in Navajo?
In Navajo, pinon seeds are referred to as "bilasáana." The term specifically refers to the seeds of the piñon pine, which are an important traditional food source for the Navajo people. These seeds are often harvested and used in various dishes or as snacks.
The Navajo were, and still are today, living in the Southwest region, or desert area, of the U.S. The states they live in contain, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
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How did Pueblos protect the Navajo?
The Pueblo people didn't really protect the Navajo. Sometimes the Navajo and Pueblos traded, other times the Navajo raided the Pueblos. The Navajo probably got some things like weaving and corn from the Pueblo people. The successful Pueblo Revolt of 1680 meant that when the Spanish returned in 1692 they were much more careful and didn't really colonize the western Pueblos again which indirectly probably helped the Navajo. On the other hand, the Rio Grande Pueblos later sided with the Spanish against the Navajo and later encouraged the Americans to lead military expeditions against them. One of the caused of the Oraibi split at Hopi had to do with an argument as to whether the Americans or the Navajo were more of a threat and therefore which side they should join with to fight the other.
What is the Navajo word for parting?
Even if I knew, I doubt there is a written word for it. Navajo had an unbeatable advantage as a code in WW2 because it was a spoken language only, and an illegal language until the US found a use for it. Suggest you try Navajo and "translation." Who knows? A written language was created for Cherokee, so maybe there are ones for other American native languages, or at least phonetic equivalents. Also, some words do not exist in some languages. For example, French has no word for "shallow." This made a problem when using Navajo as a military radio code, as some military terms did not exist in the Navajo language.
What is a 6 letter word for of Navajo or Cherokee clan?
aniawi
Of the 72 Navajo clans none are spelled with 6 letters using the standard spelling system.
How did the transcontinental railroad change life for Americans and for the Indians?
It substantially accelerated the populating of the West by white homesteaders, led to rapid cultivation of new farm lands.
The railroad industry also wanted bison herds culled or eliminated. Herds of bison on tracks could damage locomotives when the trains failed to stop in time. Herds often took shelter in the artificial cuts formed by the grade of the track winding though hills and mountains in harsh winter conditions. As a result, bison herds could delay a train for days.
In the east, the progress started in Omaha, Nebraska, by the Union Pacific Railroad proceeded very quickly because of the open terrain of the Great Plains. However, they soon became subject to slowdowns as they entered Indian-held lands. The Native Americans living there saw the addition of the railroad as a violation of their treaties with the United States. War parties began to raid the moving labor camps that followed the progress of the line. Union Pacific responded by increasing security and by hiring marksmen to kill American Bison-which were both a physical threat to trains and the primary food source for many of the Plains Indians. The Native Americans then began killing laborers when they realized that the so-called "Iron Horse" threatened their existence. Security measures were further strengthened and progress on the railroad continued.
European Americans would often shoot buffalo for sport from the train; by 1880, the buffalo were mostly gone and Plains Indians had been gathered onto reservations. Millions of acres of open grassland were being settled by the people moving west. Eventually, much of this land became the farmland that fed a growing nation.
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http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/subtopic2b.htmlWhat does the four sacred mountains mean to the Navajos?
What the four sacred mountains mean to the Navajo's is that it will protect them. Changing Women was born on one of the two center mountains, Ch'oolii, southeast of Farmington. It the East, South, West, and North.
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Agree. They establish the bounds of the Dinetah- the land of the People.
Besides just marking the boundaries the four mountains represent 4 ideas, color, times of day, sets of gods, jewels, times of life and year and much more. Nitsáhákees (Thinking), Nahatá (Planning), Iiná (Living) and Siih Hasin (Assuring) are from the east clockwise are associated which each of the mountains.
east white Sisn'djini' whiteshell south blue Mt. Taylor turquiose west yellow Mt. Humphreys abalone north black Dibentsah jet A medicine soil bundle contains earth from each of the mountians and jewels and corn that represent the dirrections. Also pollen. In all it creates the innner and outer form of Sa'ah Naaghaii Bik'eh Hozhoon.
"The mountains are fastened and covered with elements that represent natural phenomena; their colors are associated with the precious stones; they have bird, plant, and sound symbols; they are inhabited by the Holy People. The mountains represent parts of the earth's body--heart, skull, breast, and internal organs--and like, the body of an earth person, they have th power of motion, given them by the Winds. Other gifts have been bestowed upon them. For example, sisn'djini was fastened by a bolt of lightning and covered with daylight, and additional gifts of white lightning, dark cloud, male rain, and white corn made it symbolically more complete." (Reichard)
How do you say five finger people in Navajo?
The phrase "five finger people" means human beings and in Navajo is: BÃla'ashla'ii Dine'é
The marks above the vowels are high tone marks. The marks between vowels are marks for the glottal stop consonant. Dine'é is the plural of "person" or "man". The Navajo name for themselves is usually Diné.
Diyin Nohookáá Dine'é- "holy earth surface people" is another name.
Around the year 1025the hopis were joined on their lands by such as the Navajos?
The answer is newcomers
Some types of the Navajos jobs were to hunting. Not fishing, there was a taboo against eating fish. Farming corn, squash, beans, melons, chillies, peaches, onions, raising sheep, goats and cattle and horses. Gathering pinon pine nuts, yucca fruit, berries, greens, wild potatoes. Gathering herbs for healing and dying yarn. Spinning yarn and weaving rugs and blankets. Making jewelery and pottery and baskets. Being a Hataalłii , which is a spiritual leader of ceremonies. Being a traditional diagnostician. Being a Naatʼáanii (a leader) which literally means one who moves things to maturity.
Today there are 300,000 Navajo and they do every sort of job. Artists, writers, scientists, politicians, sports, farming, military, education, health care, mining, oil industry, police, government jobs, casino workers, hospitality, weaving, raising sheep, making jewelry, crafts, business owners. You name it, Navajos do it.
How do you spell come home in Navajo?
This is very hard to translate in to Navajo because there are very many ways to "come" or "arrive" in Navajo.How you are traveling matters. And it changes based on who and how many you are talking to. It also often needs to know the manner of movement, such as on the way somewhere else, round trip, like it is usually done and so on.
náníshtłáád - means to come back to him or her ( a spouse or lover).
My home is shighan, our home is nihighan, nighan is your home, his her it's home is bighan.
Navajo is a subject object verb language.
There is no imperative form. To express the imperative you use the 2nd person prefix. Perhaps this is why it is rude to order Navajo people around.
Note on pronouncing: Vowels with marks over them are high tone.
Double vowels are held longer.
i is as in bit sound.
a is as in father.
tł is a consonant we don't have in English, if you think of how we make gl sound and put your tongue where L is it will work.
gh is a bit like ch in loch with a more g sound to it.
How do you say gathering of waters in Navajo?
I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to.
There is a Navajo clan name that means "water flows together clan"
That clan name is : Tó Aheedlínii
It comes from a place in New Mexico called Tó Aheedlį́ in Navajo (Literally: water flows in a circle)
It is Thohedlih in English.
It is at the opening of a deep box canyon. About a mile downstream of where the San Juan and Los Pinos rivers meet.
It is the starting point of the story in the Tł'éé'jí , the Night Chant
That this location, which has important religious meaning was submerged by the building of Navajo Dam (1958-1963) making Navajo Lake is a source of distress to some traditionalists.
After the Hero twins slew all the monsters, they went to the junction of the San Juan and Los Piños rivers. This location has shield petroglyphs representing the twins. These were destroyed by the dam.
It is comparable to flooding Nazareth with a dam and forming a lake over it.
It does provides water for approximately 110,000 acres of farmland on the Navajo Indian Reservation. This is the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, founded in 1962, the largest irrigated farm in the country.
What is fp hallmark on American Indian jewelry?
If it is stamped into the silver, "fp" is probably the initials of the artist who created the piece: the artist's hallmark. If it is just etched in with a Dremel tool, it still could be
an artist's hallmark, but most likely it's an identifying mark or inventory mark of the
owner/shop.
How do you say bolt in Navajo?
'ił 'adaagizí
0r-- béésh 'aghádaaz áhígíí
Or if you mean "to bolt" as in a horse, it is more complex as Navajo verbs are very hard.
It is: dah diilyeed or yaataał--- but the conjugation depends on lots of things we don't do in English.
put a smile on your face look at the person with love then say the big words GOOD MORNING
What demons terrorize the Navajos?
Well alot of navajos won't answer this but yenaldlooshi.(He who trots along here and there on all fours). Most people might just say "Hey dodijcheda. Don't talk About that or speak of
What side are the Navajo girls on in the hogans?
Traditionally, women sit on the north side and men on the south side. Everyone enters in a door on the east side facing the dawn. Everyone moves around in a clockwise fashion. Beside being a traditional home a hogan has religious meaning. The first one is said to have been made by one of the Holy People (Diyin Dine'e') made of white shell, turquoise, abalone and jet with a rainbow for the roof. The female hogan is modeled after the shape of the mountain Huerfano Mesa or Dzil Na'oodilii where First Man and First Woman lived and Changing Woman gave birth to the Hero Twins among other things. . The male Hogan shape after the moutain where Changing Woman was found by Talking God, Gobernador Knob, or Ch'óol'í'í.
What is the same about chippewa and Navajo?
The Navajo and the Chipppewa (Ojibwe or Anishinaabe) don't have much in common. But the similarly named Chipewyan people who live across northern Canada do have a lot in common. They speak very similar languages Sort of like cousins. Perhaps more distant than French and Italian. They are both the Athabascan language family. The Canadian people call themselves Denésoliné which means people of the barrens. the Navajo call themselves Dine' which means people. Some simple words are understandable with vowel shifts from one language to the other. It is thought that the Navajo and other Apache groups left northern Canada about 2000 years ago and started into the American southwest about 900-1100 AD. All the Athabascan people have genetic differences from other Native Americans and probably moved to the Americas later than the early settling but before the Inuit peoples.
