Navajo Nation

The Navajo (Dine) and Pueblo are very alike and very different. The Navajo home’s are called hogans which from what i have learned are dome shaped homes made of mud,branches, and leaves when the Pueblo’s homes are adobe homes called Pueblo’s. The owner’s of the home enter thru a whole that has a ladder which helps them keep out unwanted guests. Cool right? Well you will never believe how they farm. They both do it the same way… Dry farming! Dry Farming is since the southwest never got much…

The Elephant in the Room Navajo code talkers were considered America’s “secret weapon” in World War II. US Marines used the Native American language as a code in order to relay secret messages during wartime. This code was vital to our victory in World War II because the Japanese easily cracked top secret military codes. Just as American soldiers relayed messages in code during wartime, women wrote in “code” in order to portray society's limitations during their time. They addressed these…

portion of the Peoplehood 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…

Building the Navajo Generating Station has been a huge step forward for civilization, but its successes have overshadowed the major problems it has created for our planet’s well-being. The environmental destruction caused by this power plant is hard to miss, between the amount of pollution it gives off, as well as the amount of water it takes from an already depleted Colorado River. On top of the environmental problems, the generating station has proven to be a danger to the local Navajo Tribe’s…

Navajo Nation: Night Chant The Navajos are people that live in the Southwest of the United States, some of the most well-known Native Americans. The Navajo land—or the “Dine Bikeyah”— in the Southwest is quite large, larger than one-fifth of all the states in the United States and has its own government, and still, to this day, maintains a few of the same traditions and myths that their ancestors did. As in most tribes, for the Medicine Men—who are similar to healers—there is a ritual that is…

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…

Perhaps, unlike Tohono O’odham people because of the good environment, the leaders and the clan members of Navajo tribe had been focusing on the clan atmosphere and on reinforcing their tribe. The nature allowed them to be more mobile, “The mountain homelands of the Tonto, White Mountain and San Carlos Apaches range from desert ridges to forest-covered peaks…

Perception of Navajo Women The Navajo reservation is where I was born and raised also my home. My grandmother had raised me; she had always stressed about how important school is. As a child, I never thought hard enough to realize what she meant until I entered my senior year of high school. After graduating high school everyone expected myself to become a nurse or teacher, not because my grandmother was a nurse the only reason is because I am a Navajo woman. The perspective of Navajo women is…

created hundreds of years before the founding of our nation, would prove to be one of America's greatest secret weapons? The Japanese cracked every code that the Army and Navy came up with, but not the Navajo code. Navajo is a spoken language handed down orally from generation to generation. The Code Talkers created a system of native words to represent characters of the English alphabet so that they could spell out English words that had no Navajo equivalent. The code talkers also assigned…

Ya’ah’teeh, Shi ei Shaniah Morning Star Chee yinishye. I am a first semester Freshman at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. I graduated from Monument Valley High School located on on the Navajo Reservation off Monument Valley, Utah. I have been very involved with extracurricular activities in high school such as Upward Bound, Gear-Up, Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), cross country, basketball manager, performing arts, track & field, and Student Council…