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    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 language. So they don’t have to fear about the language. Some of the younger generation wants to learn how to speak it (me included). The US government has been part of the problem but not the whole problem. Sure, the United States has posted the…

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    The Navajo Language

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    more than the fact that 473 languages are currently close to extinction and in America alone, and that 182 are endangered? These statistics should make all humans consider the fact that diversity is no longer a thing, and that English is the most dominant language. Language is an aspect that makes humans unique individuals in the world and it allows them express their identity, but when languages are being endangered that means there is a threat to identity. Over the years language has been used…

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    Wojiko Modern European History, Pd. 2 10 May 2017 Navajo Code Talkers in World War II Since conflict was discovered, people have always had the need to be the winner…to be on top. Conflict is a disagreement between to people or groups based on ideologies and or action. In whichever case, there are many factors into a conflict that determine who will win and who will lose. One factor in particular was and is still utilized by every nation. One factor that can and will make the difference…

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    Navajo Code Talkers

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    battles in which the Navajos were instrumental to including: Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and the Saipan. Every campaign which the United States began from 1942 through 1945 implemented the use of the navajo code talkers. Without these key battles the War in the Pacific would undoubtedly have been lost, and therefore would have crippled the Allies fight against the nation of Japan. The training for the Code Talkers was fairly quick, only lasting about eight weeks, after The Commanding General of the…

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    An Uncrackable Code 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…

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    Essay On Navajo Culture

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    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…

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    Navajo Tribe Essay

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    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…

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    The Navajo Language The terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 changed the lives of all Americans regardless of age, race, gender, and ethnicity. The graphic images of the twin towers collapsing and a commercial airliner crashing into the Pentagon portrayed an image of what the American Indian’s must have seen as the United States (U.S.) Government made advances on their ancestral lands, threatening their very livelihood. As a direct result of conflicts, the U.S.…

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    Navajo Pastoralism

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    matrix of the Navajo and how settler colonialism has affected it. In the Peoplehood, it is stated that “Humans, especially those who have living relationships with particular territories, observe and know the cycles or natural events” (Holm, et al. pg. 14). This knowledge becomes incredible useful when pastoralism is your way of life which is true for the Navajo. The Paths of Life exhibit states that “For more than three centuries the Navajo have been a pastoral people…Pastoralism is a way of…

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    country, language, education, and traditions, work, among others. As part of a cultural group in the United States, the American Indians are the indigenous peoples of the Americas. According to Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2014), the name Indian is supposedly first given by Christopher Columbus who thought that the mainlands were part of the Indies, in Asia (p. 1). During the first contact between the Americas and Europe, there have been said to be over 90 million Indians living in…

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