Navajo Nation

Navajo Rugs Navajo rugs have been around since the 17 century. The rugs where used to trade for items the weaver wanted. Soon after they started to have unique designs on them to capture the buyer’s eye. The rug its self looks unbelievably good because it is made of wool. I like the rugs my grandma makes because that are always unique and very in sizes. Every rugs that she’s made always look great and everyone would want one. The rug she made spells my last name across it. In the early 17…

Where did this tribe live? The Anasazi tribe lived in and near Arizona and New Mexico. They also lived in what is now Colorado and Utah. The tribe was known for the outstanding cliff pueblos they could make because in the hot, dry desert-like environment they were lived in. The climate in these areas was hot and dry. What type of clothing did they have? The Anasazi used animal and human hair to make all kinds of clothes. This tribe also made their clothes by weaving yucca fibers together…

Do you know about the Navajo code talkers? Surprisingly, lots of people still don’t know who they are, but they were some of the most important soldiers who served in World War II. They might even be the reason that the Allied powers won the war! The Navajo Code talkers are a group of about 400 Navajo soldiers who created and used a secret code using the Navajo language, which turned out to be extremely useful. To Japan, the code was undecipherable. With the help of the Navajo Code talkers, the…

Up close The Navajo language is the most commonly spoken in the United States for native americans. The language of it being spoken to the younger generation is slowly decreasing by each elder dying. There were only 7,600 monolingual speakers of the language. My parents are fluent in the language, but my mom has some problems speaking the language for herself. Native kids are sometimes wondering what the older people are saying. The elders are wanting the younger generation to speak the…

The Navajo Native Americans of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico have one of the continent’s richest and most unique cultural heritages. Their customs are the best conserved in the United States. While other folk cultures have succumbed to acculturation, the Navajo have endured. Their language provided a new means of cultural preservation through literary tradition, ensuring the survival of their folk culture while others when extinct. Foreign dangers have damaged but not destroyed their cultural…

Navajo Nation is considered the largest federally recognized Native American Indian Tribe in the United States which covers 27,673 square miles at the corners where Utah, Arizona and New Mexico meet. [1] The Navajos call themselves Diné which means “The People.” Mexican and Spanish people named the Navajos as “Apaches de Navajo.” “Apaches” means enemies in Spanish, and “Navajo” is an adapted word from Tewa and it means planted fields. In 1969, the Navajos Tribal Council officially named them as…

worked with William Morgan to create four dictionaries: in 1943 The Navaho Language, in 1951 A Vocabulary of Colloquial Navaho, in 1980 The Navajo Language, and in 1992 the Analytical Lexicon (Perry, 2011, p. 118). Perry (2011) mentions that each dictionary had a slightly different purpose and structure, while proving the logical and systematic nature of Navajo with standardized pronunciations and grammatical rules (p. 118). In their first dictionary Young and Morgan (as cited in Perry, 1971),…

Before discussing the film Windtalkers, it is necessary to address the historical background that is presented in the movie, as well as the role of the Native Americans in the national context. The Second World War altered the way of life for most of the Native American community. Many Native Americans began abandoning their reservations and moved to the cities in search of better jobs and pay; others joined the U.S. armed forces, in order to protect the free world from the Nazi aggression. The…

The long walk was endured my Native American in 1860’s after they were release from Fort Sumner. One of many painting is located around New Mexico but one particular painting is located on Third and Hill in Gallup, NM. Richard K. Yazzie is a local artist that collaborate with the City of Gallup create this painting. The painting is to remember the suffering that Native American have experienced. There is four part to this painting and each represent the season during the year; spring, summer,…

The Pueblo Indians are the historic descendants of the Anasazi peoples, also known as the “Basket Makers”. The Pueblo Indians are Native Americans known for residing in compact permanent settlements referred as pueblos. In the modern world, the group lives in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona. The Pueblo incorporates four distinct language groups including the Zuni, Keresan, Tanoan, and Hopi. The culture associated with early Pueblo Indians is estimated to have begun in AD100. At…