32 Facts About Navajo Nation

Navajo Nation, known as Navajoland, is a Native American reservation in the United States.

Navajo Nation people have continued to transform their conceptual understandings of government since signing the Treaty of 1868.

Significant pushback was given by the Navajo Nation, who did not feel that they had been sufficiently consulted before the measures were implemented.

Lands within the exterior boundaries of the Navajo Nation are composed of Public, Tribal Trust, Tribal Fee, Bureau of Land Management, Private, State, and BIA Indian Allotment Lands.

In 2006, a committee for a "Navajo Nation Constitution" began advocating for a Navajo Nation constitutional convention.

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Current judicial system for the Navajo Nation was created by the Navajo Tribal Council on 16 October 1958.

Navajo Nation courts are governed by Title 7, "Courts and Procedures", of the Navajo Nation Tribal Code.

The Navajo Nation voted for the change in an effort to have a more efficient government and to curb tribal government corruption associated with council members who established secure seats.

Five agencies within the Navajo Nation are Chinle Agency in Chinle, Arizona; Eastern Navajo Agency in Crownpoint, New Mexico; Western Navajo Agency in Tuba City, Arizona; Fort Defiance Agency in Fort Defiance, Arizona; and Shiprock Agency in Shiprock, New Mexico.

Navajo Nation operates executive offices in Washington, DC to facilitate government-to-government relations and for lobbying services and congressional relations.

However, the Navajo Nation operates its own divisions of law enforcement via the Navajo Division of Public Safety, commonly referred to as the Navajo Nation Police .

Navajo Nation Council scheduled a primary and general election for June and August 2015.

Begaye supports encouraging native language use among the Navajo Nation, who have the most members of nearly any tribe who speak their native language.

Adjacent to or near the Navajo Nation are the Southern Ute of Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico, both along the northern borders; the Jicarilla Apache Tribe to the east; the Zuni Pueblo and White Mountain Apache to the south; and the Hualapai Bands in the west.

The agreement lessened the contentious land disagreement by providing a 75-year lease to Navajo Nation who had land claims dating to before the US occupation of the territory.

Navajo Nation operates Dine College, a two-year tribal community college, with its main campus at Tsaile in Apache County, Arizona.

The Navajo Nation Council founded the college in 1968 as the first tribal college in the United States.

Especially high are the rates of reproductive-organ cancers in teenage Navajo Nation girls, averaging seventeen times higher than the average of girls in the United States.

Navajo Nation are uniquely affected by a rare and life-threatening autosomal recessive multi-system disorder called Navajo Nation Neurohepatopathology .

The Navajo Nation are noted for their skill in creating turquoise and silver jewelry.

Navajo Nation artists have other traditional arts, such as sand painting, sculpture, and pottery.

Navajo Nation has created a mixture of industry and business that has provided the Navajo with alternative opportunities to traditional occupations.

Economic development within the Navajo Nation has fluctuated over its history but has largely remained limited.

Navajo Nation Mine opened in 1963 near Fruitland, New Mexico, and employs about 350 people.

The Navajo Nation has suffered considerable environmental contamination and health effects as a result of poor regulation of uranium mining in that period.

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Navajo Nation has four Tribal Parks, which bring tourists and revenue to the Tribe.

An important small business group on the Navajo Nation is handmade arts and crafts industry, which markets both high- and medium-end quality goods made by Navajo artisans, jewelers and silversmiths.

The Navajo Nation Times is the largest Native American-owned newspaper company in the United States.

Navajo Nation relied heavily on the natural world in order to obtain food.

Navajo Nation occupied the southwestern part of the United States; therefore, they consumed foods that were native to the land.

The Navajo Nation were forced by the United States government to walk from their land in Arizona to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico in the mid-1800s.

The Navajo Nation people created fry-bread out of those ingredients and it has since been a staple food within the Navajo Nation culture.