17 Facts About Navajo people

The Navajo people Reservation is slightly larger than the state of West Virginia.

The term Navajo people comes from Spanish missionaries and historians who referred to the Pueblo Indians through this term, although they referred to themselves as the Dine, is a compound word meaning up where there is no surface, and then down to where we are on the surface of Mother Earth.

Navajo people signed a treaty with two Navajo leaders: Mariano Martinez as Head Chief and Chapitone as Second Chief.

Navajo people children were sent to boarding schools within the reservation and off the reservation.

English as the primary language spoken at these schools as well as the local towns surrounding the Navajo people reservations contributed to residents becoming bilingual; however Navajo people was the still the primary language spoken at home.

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Many Navajo people men volunteered for military service in keeping with their warrior culture, and they served in integrated units.

In 1942, Marine staff officers composed several combat simulations and the Navajo people translated it and transmitted it in their dialect to another Navajo people on the other line.

Each Navajo people went through basic bootcamp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego before being assigned to Field Signal Battalion training at Camp Pendleton.

Historically, the structure of the Navajo people society is largely a matrilineal system, in which the family of the women owned livestock, dwellings, planting areas and livestock grazing areas.

Hogan, the traditional Navajo people home, is built as a shelter for either a man or for a woman.

The Navajo people believe they passed through three worlds before arriving in this world, the Fourth World or the Glittering World.

Navajo people Tribe relied on oral tradition to maintain beliefs and stories.

Navajo people learned silversmithing from a Mexican man called Nakai Tsosi around 1878 and began teaching other Navajos how to work with silver.

The Navajo people silversmiths borrowed the "naja" symbol to shape the silver pendant that hangs from the "squash blossom" necklace.

Turquoise has been part of jewelry for centuries, but Navajo people artists did not use inlay techniques to insert turquoise into silver designs until the late 19th century.

Cheap blankets were imported, so Navajo people weavers shifted their focus to weaving rugs for an increasingly non-Native audience.

Navajo people's daughter has continued the novel series after his death.