Navajo Indians

The Kerr-McGee Company was the first, starting in 1948.

At various times until mining stopped Atlantic Richfield, Continental Oil, Exxon, Humble Oil, Homestake, Kerr-McGee, Mobil Oil, Pioneer Nuclear, and United Nuclear applied for and worked to various degrees other leases also on Navajo lands.

Navajo clothing was fashioned and made by the Navajo females

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The Navajo tribe has many different chiefs do to the population

Navajo drypaintings ( they include powder made of more things than sand) are an important part of most Navajo ceremonies. There are somewhere between 600 and 1000 different ones. In many ceremonies the patient sits on the painting to identify with the image and absorb the power of the Holy People and get rid of sickness/lack of balance/taboo breaking and restore Hózhǫ́ǫ́. They are usual made, used and destroyed in 12 hours. After the patient sits on it the sand and powders and carefully gathered up and with ritual gesture scattered out side up, down and to the four directions. The remainder sometimes is sent home with the patient for four days, other times it is buried. It depends on the ceremony.

For traditionalists, to paint or keep the patterns is dangerous and wrong. When some started recording, painting or weaving the patterns in the 20th century, they usually altered important parts to render them harmless and ineffectual. Others who wanted to create and sell the patterns were no longer believers.

It is thought that they adopted and vastly elaborated on surrounding Pueblo people's weaving technology. Among the Navajo the women weave and among the Hopi the men weave. The pottery is not really like Pueblo pottery and not as elaborate and typically not decorated. Perhaps they got the idea from the Pueblo people but it is not clear. They have some Pueblo elements in the archeological record. The Navajo say that Spider Woman taught them weaving.

Yes, the Navajo primarily live in the Colorado Plateau Desert of the desert southwest in the Four Corners region.

The Sioux Indians hunted the Mighty Buffalo. Like the Eskimos they depended upon the success of the hunt for their food and clothing, and in addition they depended on the Buffalo to provide the skins for their Tipis or tents. These consisted of four polls tied together at the top, with the bottom forming a circle and this framework was covered with buffalo skin.

The all- important Buffalo were hunted in the Great Buffalo Hunt which took place anually, and was the most important event of the tribe's year. A Special chief of the hunt was chosen, and all braves were reminded of the rules of the hunt.

They would send scouts out to spy on the herds and come back and report on the size and the whereabouts of the herd, the actual attack took place, with all the men and boys taking part. Using fire,and making a great din to frighten the animals, the hunters stampeded the mighty beasts into huge corrals where they killed them with arrows.

That is one tradition. Navajo funeral traditions are not much talked about and discussion about them and death is avoided. Reasons are not given.

There are different traditions in different clans and different parts of the large Navajo Nation. Not all would do this. Now some families mix Christian and Native American Church traditions in as well.

In the traditional beliefs, burial was done without discussion by two or four people who then needed to keep separate from others for four days and have ceremonies because of the contact with death. In older times bodies were not buried but wrapped in a blanket and put in a crevasse or cave away from all people, often to the north. If a someone died in a traditional hogan the body was taken out a hole broken in the north wall and the building was abandoned.

Not a literal translation but its like this: dooládó' dooda da

There is no one word for travel so there isn't just one for traveler.

Navajo has huge numbers of motion verbs and they change with additonas to the root stem based on ways the action is done. So, there is traveling by horse, by boat, by foot, by car, by plane, as a passenger. There are many ways of traveling that also change the verb- going one way, going around randomly, over and over, customary, and many more.

You might use: Naagháii--- it might, sort of mean, "one who continually goes around".

Another way would be naakaii, which means "one who wanders around". It is also the Navajo word for Mexican.

It means that it was made by the Rafael Melendez company. Rafael Melendez (1911-1980) was on of the first silversmiths employed by William Spratling.

Antelope House Ruin is a Kayenta Anasazi ruin in the Canyon de Chelly. It is named for the rock paintings of antelope. It was occuped from 1050 AD to 1270 AD. The decedents are probably the Hopi people. There were 91 rooms in two main buildings and two or three large kivas and some smaller ones. When place was the Navajo moved in and raised sheep and corn on the valley floor the place was abandoned. That was probably in the 1500-1600s but perhaps much earlier. They did not touch the ruins because of cultural beliefs about the polluting, sickening and taboo aspects of the dead.

The Navajo used yucca for many things. The fruit is edible as a vegetable it is somewhat like squash. The flowers are good to eat too. The root is used for shampoo, it is used in ceremonies such as the Kinaalda. The fiber is used to make baskets, sandals and cordage. The spines are good needles. The dry inside of the stalks is used for tinder.

Medicine man. Healer.

It may be as simple as an auto adjustment. If you have installed a new clutch/ clutch cable. If it is auto adj all you have to do is lift UP on the clutch pedal with your foot while driving.

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what is the Navajo translation for lone wolve

The Navajo people had first contact with Europeans in about 1540 when Spanish expeditions came though the area. The first and largest effect is they gained sheep and horses which became important to their culture.

They had little contact with settlers in the Rio Grande valley for the first 100 years. They met them at trade fairs and there was some raiding and forth. The Navajo for sheep and horses, the Spanish for slaves.

In 1680 the Great Pueblo Revolt happened. It is believed that at that time some refugees from the conflict came and intermarried with the Navajo.

In the 1700s the Spanish demand for Navajo slaves led to the Comanche and the Ute and Kiowa getting into extensive slave raids and trading. This was very difficult on the Navajo and caused counter raids.

In the early 1800s Mexico gained independence. The slave raids continued. At that time about 1/3 of the population of New Mexico and close to a similar ratio in northern Mexico were descendants of those slaves who had lost their tribal roots. In New Mexico these people are known as Genizaros.

In 1846 the US gained theoretical control over New Mexico and Arizona. The Spanish had never successfully controlled or colonized the Navajo areas. The raids and counter raids with the now American army continued and grew. The slavery did not stop.

In 1863-4 the American army led a scorched earth campaign against the Navajo. They meant they burned crops, homes, storehouses, killed livestock until the Navajo were defeated by starvation in the winter.

From 1864-8 the Navajo were forced onto the Long Walk to live in an interment camp. Many died on the way and many more in the camps of disease.

In 1868 the Navajo were allowed to return to their traditional lands.

The slavery issue continued even after the Civil War in New Mexico up into the 1880s.

Most of where they live was not desirable to settlers. The lands they were given were expanded from 1868 to 1934 until they are today 27,000 square miles. About the same as Holland and Belgium combined.

Some areas in New Mexico were wanted by settlers and they had powerful Senators. That land for oil and gas and grazing was taken from them after it was given in the late 1800s.

Today there are 300,000 members of the Navajo Nation.

The Navajo people live in a very large area covering parts of three States (northeastern Arizona, Northwestern New Mexico and Southern Utah), much of it is the high desert of the Colorado Plateau. It covers 27,000 square miles, most of it is between 4500 and 8000 feet in elevation. Many, but not all, of the rocks in this area are reddish. You may be thinking of the so called "painted desert" area which is siltstone, mudstone, and shale of the Triassic Chinle Formation. Or maybe the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone which is reddish. Or the red sandstone Moenkopi formation that was laid down in the Lower Triassic. If you are thinking of clay deposits my best guess would be the Chinle formation which has more siltstone that erodes into clay. But clay can be found all over the Navajo Nation. Also, for a piece of pottery to end up after firing a red color it does not have to start with red clay. Any clay with a high iron content if fired in a oxygen rich environment will turn red.