Our world has many different types of people. People with different backgrounds, lifestyles, history and cultures. The Navajo people lived and went through a lot of different things. I want to explore what their culture and history. The Native American Navajo tribe is one of the largest tribes of American Indians. The Navajos have lived in the Southwest in places that are known today as New Mexico,Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. The Spanish who called them the Apaches of Navajo.that is where the term Navajo comes from. The Navajos called themselves "Dine" or "the People". The Navajo people lived in hogans. Hogans are a domed shaped house. That has a wood frame and walls made out of clay. The door always faced east so they could see the sun
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The Navajo believes that a spirit the Yei Spirit mediates between humans and the Great Spirit and are believed to control elements such as the rain, snow, wind and sun and control the night and day. The Navajo culture is big into ceremonies and rituals. Their ceremonies and rituals are usually one day, two days, or four days. Although some chants could be as long as nine days and require a lot of helpers.The two major ceremonial cycles have two branches Beauty way and Evil way. The Beauty Way is for celebration, strength and protection and the Evil Way for healing. Important Navajo ceremonies include the Yeibichei dances and the Kinaalda for girls who have reached the age of puberty ages 12 to 13 ,ones for treatment of ills, mental and physical. There are over fifty different Chantway ceremonies performed by singers, and over twelve hundred different sandpainting designs that are available to the medicine …show more content…
Over 9,000 Navajo people were sent on a forced march, known as The Long Walk, to Fort Sumner, New Mexico-a distance of over three hundred miles from their starting point at Fort Defiance.the Treaty of Bosque Redondo between the United States and many of the Navajo leaders was concluded at Fort Sumner on June 1, 1868. Some of its provisions included establishing a reservation,rights of the Navajos to be protected, compulsory education for children , a resident Indian Agent and agency,restrictions on raiding, the supply of seeds, agricultural implements and other provisions, establishment of railroads and forts, compensation to tribal members, and arrangements for the return of Navajos to the reservation established by the treaty. The Navajo had to agree to send their children to American Schools for ten years. They did agree to send their children to school and the U.S. government agreed to establish schools with teachers for every Navajo children. The U.S. government also promised for ten years to give to the Navajos annually clothing, goods, and other raw materials, but not to exceed the value of five dollars per person, that the Navajos could not manufacture for
The Navajo believes that a spirit the Yei Spirit mediates between humans and the Great Spirit and are believed to control elements such as the rain, snow, wind and sun and control the night and day. The Navajo culture is big into ceremonies and rituals. Their ceremonies and rituals are usually one day, two days, or four days. Although some chants could be as long as nine days and require a lot of helpers.The two major ceremonial cycles have two branches Beauty way and Evil way. The Beauty Way is for celebration, strength and protection and the Evil Way for healing. Important Navajo ceremonies include the Yeibichei dances and the Kinaalda for girls who have reached the age of puberty ages 12 to 13 ,ones for treatment of ills, mental and physical. There are over fifty different Chantway ceremonies performed by singers, and over twelve hundred different sandpainting designs that are available to the medicine …show more content…
Over 9,000 Navajo people were sent on a forced march, known as The Long Walk, to Fort Sumner, New Mexico-a distance of over three hundred miles from their starting point at Fort Defiance.the Treaty of Bosque Redondo between the United States and many of the Navajo leaders was concluded at Fort Sumner on June 1, 1868. Some of its provisions included establishing a reservation,rights of the Navajos to be protected, compulsory education for children , a resident Indian Agent and agency,restrictions on raiding, the supply of seeds, agricultural implements and other provisions, establishment of railroads and forts, compensation to tribal members, and arrangements for the return of Navajos to the reservation established by the treaty. The Navajo had to agree to send their children to American Schools for ten years. They did agree to send their children to school and the U.S. government agreed to establish schools with teachers for every Navajo children. The U.S. government also promised for ten years to give to the Navajos annually clothing, goods, and other raw materials, but not to exceed the value of five dollars per person, that the Navajos could not manufacture for