17 Facts About Navajo

Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

At more than 399, 494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the U S; the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country.

The Navajo Reservation is a little bigger than the State of West Virginia.

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

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

Many Navajo 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 translated it and transmitted it in their dialect to another Navajo on the other line.

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

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

Navajo's writes, "even today, a solidly constructed, log-walled Hogan is preferred by many Navajo families.

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

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

The Navajo 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 artists did not use inlay techniques to insert turquoise into silver designs until the late 19th century.

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

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