Navajo Indians

The Navajo (Dine') are a thriving and growing tribe. Except for 4 years in the 1860's they today live on much of their original and sacred lands. These are defined by the four sacred mountains, Mt Blanca, Mt Taylor, The san Fransisco Peaks and Mt Hesperus. Each has a Navajo name and color, gem, gender, attributes and Holy People. Each represents one of the four directions, always starting in the east. After the Long Walk and confinment in the 1860's there were about 10,000 who returned to their lands. A few thousand more probably escaped Kit Carson and hid out. Today there are 300,000 enrolled members. There are many more who are part Navajo but members of other tribes or not enrolled. The Navajo Nation in 27,000 square miles. They have an Executive and Legislative and Judicial branch. The Nation is broken down into 110 Chapters which are a bit like counties. There is a police force. There is a school board. The nation runs a Headstart. There is a Prep school. There are Arizona, Utah and New Mexico and BIA schools. There is a Navajo College, Dine' College. There is a Navajo language radio station KTNN. There is a newspaper, The Navajo Times. About 170,000 people speak Navajo. Tradional religion and philosophy are live and well. The traditional religious leaders are called hataałii or medicine men. There is a Medicine Men's association and they sometimes help out in the local hospitals. There are many people who are also members of Native American Church and many Christian denominations.

There are several coal mines and oil. There was once much uranium mining. The navajo Nation has the most mineral resources of any US tribe. Arts and crafts are an important source of income. Traditional lifestyles of raising sheep and corn still exists. For traditional religious reasons largely, they have declined to have casinos on their land but recently they have entered into compacts to run four. Navajo Agricultural Products runs the largest contiguous irrigated farm in the US and supplies Lays potato chips. Navajo Pride brand grows potatoes, corn, alfalfa, beans, and small grains, such as barley, wheat and oats. Tourism is also important. The tribal park in Monument Valley gets visitors from a around the world. There is also the Little Colorado, Canyon de Chelly, Navajo Mountain and Rainbow Bridge, Navajo National Monument Park with the Keet Seel ruins, and Lake Powell.

There Navajo are very proud of their US veterans especially the Code Talkers. The code takers were important when they came back after the war as people who modernized the Nation. The Navajo serve in the military at much higher rates than the rest of the US population.

The Navajo have a unique and vibrant artistic and philosophical culture that is very important to this day. Navajo weaving and jewery are world renowned. Traditional Navajo outlook on the importance of Hozho,( balance, peace, the good, beauty, and dynamic harmony) and the proper relations between individuals, family, clan and all living things is very much alive an noticiable if you live on the Navajo Nation.

Navajo is a complex, verb-based language that emphasizes a holistic view of actions and relationships, contrasting with the more noun-centric structure of English. Its syntax allows for intricate expressions of time, location, and aspect, often conveyed through prefixes and verb modifications. Additionally, Navajo utilizes a rich system of tones and sounds that are not present in English, making pronunciation and meaning quite distinct. These linguistic features reflect Navajo culture and worldview, which differ significantly from those expressed in English.

Historically, various groups and individuals have formed friendships and alliances with the Navajo people. These include other Indigenous tribes, such as the Apache, as well as European settlers and later American military leaders who sought alliances during conflicts. Additionally, missionaries and traders often developed relationships with the Navajo, contributing to cultural exchanges. In modern times, partnerships with environmental and social organizations have emerged to support Navajo communities.

It was necessary to give the Navajo more time to decode military messages because the complexity and urgency of the communications required accuracy and clarity. The Navajo code talkers had to ensure that the messages were not only transmitted swiftly but also accurately interpreted to prevent misunderstandings that could compromise military operations. Additionally, their unique language and code were essential for secure communication, making it critical to allow sufficient time for proper decoding and effective collaboration.

They harvested the crops took care of the children

mostly deer,rabbits fruit and veggies.

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Were called the Navajo Code Talkers.

The Navajo are well known for their beautiful weaving, jewelery, baskets and pottery. Because of the central philosophical concept of hózhǫ́ , many Dine' are attacked to creating beautiful things. There are well many known artists, painters, poets, writers, singers, jewelers, potters, and weavers.

Death is not a good thing to the Navajo and the proper length of a human life is said to be 102 years. 25 1/4 years for each of the four parts. There is not a good day to die, and there is no Navajo afterlife. Living now into long life according to hózhǫ́ with proper k'e (relations) is what is important. The Navajo are not Lakota.

No. Sheep, cow, and goats are mainly what the navajos eat.

Cannbalism is way too CRUEL. We have a lot of beliefs. Our religioun is against that too.

Some Navajo witches are said to gain power over others by doing this.

It is said by some Navajo that the Chaco Canyon Anasazi culture was a site of great evil that included canabalism.

They would send transmissions to the U.S solders about were to bomb but they did this so Japan could not intercept the broadcast and understand what they were about to do.

They kill deer and sheep and wild animals.

Most starfish eat mollusks, principally bivalves which they force open by seizing both halves of the shell with their tube feet and pulling the halves apart very slowly until the bivalve is exhausted.

In the spring and summer.

I don't know the name of the artist but the Navajo do not have shaman or shamanistic rites. The 60 chantways are highly precise and choreographed rituals. It is thought that if they are done the wrong way they are less effective or they won't work. The Hataałii (singers or chanters) or in English sometimes called Medicine Men have to go through years of learning, memorizing and training to perform the 1 to 9 day ceremonies exactly correctly. They are more like priests or physicians than shamans. The purpose of all of the ceremonies is to restore hózhǫ́. This is a central Navajo concept meaning balance, beauty, peace, order, harmony and goodness all in one concept.

They do not sprint travel, go into trances or communicate with the dead or sprints. Usually a shaman is someone who does one or more of these things.

There are traditional diagnosticians who use trance sometimes to determine what ceremony is needed to help the patient or what taboo has been broken. They are not really shaman either.

Navajo jewelry can be purchased on a visit to the Navajo Nation, located in the southern United States. Alternatively, it can be purchased from eBay.

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Díkwíidi azlį́į́?---What time is it?

The marks above vowels make them high tone. The marks below make them nasalized. If a high tone is followed by a vowel without a tone it is falling tone. Two vowels in a row means you hold the sound longer

The traditional Hopi diet was based around corn, squash and beans and sunflower. Corn has a central role in their self image and culture. Cactus fruit was used for sweetening. Around the 16th centruy the Spanish brought peach orchards, watermelons, chilies, and onions which became a part of their diet. Wild plants such as beeweed, wild potatoes, pinyon nuts, yucca fruits, pig weeds, saltbush, beebalm, tansy mustard, wormwood, and spiderwort are used as staple food or as seasoning with other vegetable and meat.

Dried greens, cactus fruits, juniper berries, wild currants, and wild roses were eaten in times of famine.

Today they have sheep, goats and cows. In the past they ate wild game and their ancestors the Anasazi raised domestic turkeys.

Most of the Navajo Code Talkers served in the best military branch, The United States Marines. A few served in the Army but not many.

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at the start, when you start walking you walk every second day for about an hour. after about a week you start walking everyday for about an hour or two. my friends mum always does it, and that's what she does

Maternal grandfather.

But to be correct in Navajo it cannot stand alone like this. It is a type of word that can only occur grammatically in the possessive.

So, properly : shicheii - my maternal grandfather.

nicheii - your m. grandfather

acheii- someones

bicheii- his/her/it's

and so on.

Sometimes Navajo English slang it is used not in the possessive and can just refer to an older man.