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	Navaho Religion
		Thirdly, a division of Navaho that settled on the San Juan River, trace their ancestry to Whiteshell Woman and is believed to have been transformed from corn, whilst another group, from the west, originated from Changing Woman's skin.
		Navaho family organization was matrilocal and matrilineal, marriage requiring the husband to leave his own family and to reside with that of his wife's.
		In 1868 a treaty was signed which outlined the new boundaries of the Navaho nation; the education of Navaho children in white schools was a condition of the treaty, as was a prohibition on the possession of arms (Ibid.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/nam/navaho.html (2447 words)

	CHAPTER XIII. A Navaho Weaver at Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is by the vigorous use of the batten that the Navaho serapes are rendered waterproof.
		While, as a rule, among the Navahos, modern blankets are woven by women, there have always been men who have engaged in the art, and in describing some of the blankets herein pictured it will be observed that the masculine pronoun has been used, designating a man weaver.
		But the Navaho women do not sing, except ceremonially, and there is little in the high-pitched, almost screeching, forced, and strenuously vociferous singing of the dances, to lead one to attempt it while engaged in the thoughtful, quiet, and sedentary occupation of weaving.
	southwest.library.arizona.edu /inbl/body.1_div.13.html (8134 words)

	Navaho
		The Navaho became operational in 1955 and in the early sixties was replaced by the Mace missile, which had a longer range, greater speed, and superior accuracy.
		Although the Navaho program was canceled in 1957, it significantly influenced the development of large liquid-propellant rocket engine technology in the United States.
		From the Navaho was derived the engines for the Redstone, Thor, Jupiter, Atlas, Titan I, and Saturn I rockets.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/Navaho.html (245 words)

	Navajo mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She ruled the ocean, the sunrise, fire, and maize.
		Yolkai Estasan's sister, Estanatelhi (or Estsanatlehi), was a sky goddess who was very respected among the Navaho.
		Glispa invented medicine and taught it to the Navaho.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Navaho_mythology (277 words)

	Navaho Indian Tribe History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hodge has shown that this Navaho origin legend, omitting a few obviously mythic elements, can be substantiated by recorded history, but he places the beginning at less than 500 years.
		The Navaho are classed us belonging to the widespread Athapascan linguistic family, and a vocabulary of their language shows that the majority of their words have counterparts in dialects of Alaska, British America, and California.
		By treaty of Canyon de Chelly, Ariz., Sept. 9, 1849, the Navaho acknowledged the sovereignty of the United States.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/navaho/navahoindianhist.htm (1941 words)

	Business Wire: CyPost Corporation Announces Release of Navaho ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Navaho ZipSafe can quickly and easily secure personal and business financial information, confidential business memos, account numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, sensitive correspondence, and digital images using a variety of encryption algorithms and key lengths including 40-bit, 56-bit, 112-bit, 128-bit, and 168-bit.
		As an added feature, the built in compression in Navaho ZipSafe is capable of reducing files by as much as 70% in a matter of seconds.
		Navaho ZipSafe is currently under beta testing and is scheduled for release by February 28, 1999.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:53853053&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (503 words)

	Navaho
		The goal of the reformulated Navaho program was to produce a surface-to-surface cruise missile capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead 10,200 km at a speed of at least Mach 2.75 with a CEP (Circular Error Probability - diameter within which half of the missiles would impact) of 450 m.
		The seven remaining Navahos were to be tested in support the of the B-70 bomber and F-108 long-range interceptor programs, but after two unsuccessful launches the project was completely cancelled at the urging of the B-70 Weapons System Project Office.
		The Navaho G-26 was a test version of the operational Navaho G-38 which would have been the fullfillment of the A-9/A-10 concept.
	www.astronautix.com /lvfam/navaho.htm (1019 words)

	Journal of American Indian Education-Arizona State University
		Without Navaho language and culture as an integral part of the curriculum, schools are seen by Navahos as foreign institutions, teaching foreign subjects and values in a foreign language and undermining the foundations of Navaho culture and social order.
		Teaching Navaho language and culture in the classroom enables Navaho children to positively identify with the schools they attend and to enthusiastically and securely pursue their academic work.
		Another major reason for teaching Navaho culture and language in the schools Navahos attend is to provide the framework and environment for Navaho children to develop a positive self-image.
	jaie.asu.edu /v7/V7S3Nav.html (1744 words)

	Business Wire: Navaho Lock 2.1 - E-mail Security Software Upda... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Navaho Lock 2.1 is currently available for purchase at over 1,000 secure distribution sites on the Internet for $39.95 US.
		Navaho Lock Personal Edition 2.1 offers users 40, 56, 112, 128 and 168 bit encryption with an intuitive and simple to use interface.
		Navaho Lock offers consumers the ease and affordability to send and receive mail, and mail attachments such as Documents, Spreadsheets, Digital Images, Digital Sound, or Business Presentations with complete security using a Drag and Drop style interface.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:53686431&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (400 words)

	NAVAHO RESTORATION PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Top Middle: The Navaho missile at the museum is shown being lowered to the ground as workers begin the complex tatsk of its restoration.
		The Navaho project achieved major advances in nearly every discipline of engineering and electronics which produced the airborne digital computer, modular electronic circuitry and the all inertial navigation system.
		Even the Navaho booster engine would set a record by producing 405,000 pounds of thrust - a benchmark that would not be bested for nearly five years.
	www.space.edu /libraryresearch/swanson/NAVAHO.htm (1056 words)

	John Salter Jr., "Navaho Indians: Oil and Mining Buzzards Hover Overhead" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 8,000 Navaho comprising the loosely federated were given a portion of northeastern Arizona and northern New Mexico as a reservation; they were promised schools for their young, medical facilities, and the opportunity to make their living from the raising of stock animals and crops.
		Disease is rampant among the Navaho; many adults and children cannot write or speak English and have no real conception of the land beyond the borders of the Navaho reservation.
		They are told by missionaries of the Christian faith that their ancient Navaho beliefs are false and detrimental, and that they must surrender these ‘pagan’ beliefs for the faith of the missionary and for the sack of cast-off clothing which is promised them if they comply.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/amersoc_5709-b.htm (632 words)

	BOOK REVIEW - THE NAVAHO CODE TALKERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During World War II several hundred Navaho Indians were used by the Marine Corps to transmit and receive tactical voice messages using their native language as the coding system.
		Johnston was the son of a missionary to the Navaho nation.
		After the idea proved successful in several trials in the United States additional Navahos were recruited and the final number was 540 of which 420 qualified as code talkers.
	www.usncva.org /books/book-03.html (444 words)

	Navaho Missile
		The X-10 Navaho test drone was the first turbojet-powered vehicle to reach Mach 2 and the first aircraft to fly a complete mission under inertial (computerized) guidance.
		The Navaho program was canceled in July 1957 when, after extensive testing at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Atlas ICBM was chosen over winged missile designs.
		On July 13, 1998, exactly 41 years from the day when the Navaho was canceled, and after two years restoring the X-10, the Air Force Space and Missile Museum rolled out the only Navaho missile in existence and placed it on display.
	www.boeing.com /history/bna/navaho.htm (257 words)

	Cape Canaveral Rocket and Missile Programs:
		The Navaho program was born in 1947 as part of a plan to create an unmanned winged cruise missile which could fly a desired range of 5,500 miles.
		Navaho technology, including booster engines, cryogenic propellant, inertial guidance systems and other equipment was successfully adapted for use in other missile programs.
		The last Navaho XSM-64 missile known to exist is on permanent display outside the south entrance gate to Cape Canaveral Air Station, where it was moved in March, 1999 after undergoing an extensive refurbishing project sponsored by the Air Force Space and Missile Museum.
	www.spaceline.org /rocketsum/navaho.html (542 words)

	USA Apache Navaho War 1860-1865
		Both the Apache and Navaho (Navajo) were warlike tribes who inhabited mainly what is now New Mexico and Arizona.
		In 1863-64, Colonel Christopher "Kit" Carson (1809-69), an experienced Indian fighter, led the First New Mexico Volunteers in a campaign against the Indians, who were to be killed outright and their women and children taken prisoner; Carson's force killed more than 650 Apache and captured over 9,000.
		In 1865, the Navaho surrendered and agreed to settle on a reservation on the Pecos River in New Mexico.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/alpha/apachenavaho1860.htm (284 words)

	APPENDIX IV. Reliable Dealers in Navaho Blankets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He spoke the Navaho language fluently, lived in the very heart of the reservation and was in daily contact with some of the most progressive men and women of the tribe.
		During the year 1911-12 they found sale for Navaho blankets for which they had traded to the amount of forty thousand dollars, independent of the blankets sold by the manager of their Navaho Reservation store, who finds his own market and never sends his supply in to be disposed of by the firm.
		A Navaho trader who makes a specialty of a mail-order business in the finer grades of Indian blankets, and whose statements as to the quality of his goods may be implicitly relied upon, is J. Molohon, Crystal, N. Mr.
	digital.library.arizona.edu /southwest/inbl/back.1_div.4.html (2772 words)

	Navaho missile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This missile is the only Navaho in existence, being the only surviving missile of the six that remained when the project was cancelled.
		Though the Navaho program is little known, it produced many "firsts" in aviation: the first jet aircraft to reach speeds of Mach 3, the first to use inertial guidance, the first to fly above 77,000 feet.
		The major reason for the cancellation of the Navaho program was the successful development of the Atlas ICBM (which made the Navaho obsolete from a military standpoint).
	www.robsv.com /cape/c9lv.html (228 words)

	Lesson 6_Solon Rhodes
		The sandpaintings of the Navaho Indians are said to be a temporary resting place for the Holy Ones and are used in rituals that a medicine man or singer/chanter called a “hataali” conduct and the myths of the Holy Ones are kept alive by his songs.
		The Navaho do not have one particular supreme being, but they use ceremony to direct their lives by calling on the assistance of the “Yei” or the “Holy Ones” to help them with supernatural powers and to regulate the good and evil events that would unfold in their lives (1968: 213 214).
		In the Navaho Bear Ceremony, the patient sits on a sandpainting which has been prepared in ritual and a medicine man in a bear costume leaps out of the darkness from a corner of the hogan and confronts the patient.
	www.angelfire.com /music5/art54/lesson6.html (1305 words)

	North American B-64 Navaho - US Air Force Museum Bomber Virtual Aircraft Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The North American B-64 "Navaho" was designed as an interim strategic weapon to be used while the first generation InterContinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) were being perfected.
		The basic concept of the Navaho Program called for the weapon to to lofted to high altitude using a conventional strap-on rocket booster.
		The Navaho program was plagued by a number of lengthy delays and flight schedules slipped by years while one problem after another was solved.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/research/bombers/b5/b5-48.htm (371 words)

	Air Force Space & Missile Museum rolls out restored Navaho missile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eleven Navaho missiles were launched from the Cape between 1956 and 1958.
		Although the Navaho program was canceled before the missile became operational, test launches resulted in numerous technical advancements.
		The inertial guidance system developed for Navaho enabled the USS Nautilus to be the first submarine to travel under the polar ice cap.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/icbm/n19980710_981014.html (500 words)

	CNN - Navaho Lock keeps snoops at bay with unbreakable code - April 30, 1999
		This can boost Navaho Lock's encryption power to 168 bits -- a level that has yet to be cracked.
		Because it is so easy to use, Navaho Lock quickly became my front-end means of sending and saving confidential information.
		The process worked like this: I logged on to Navaho Lock, composed a message, then dragged the files I wanted to encrypt and compress into the Drop Area.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9904/30/navaho.idg (1091 words)

	"Monster Slayer's Hero Quest: the Navaho Way" by Eloise Hart
		Its observance was "discovered" accidentally in 1885 by James Stevenson who arrived unexpectedly at the reservation in Arizona just as the Navaho were about to begin a performance for the benefit of a member whose vision was failing due to an eye inflammation.
		A giant, the Navaho Herod, discovering small footprints around Changing Woman's hogan, came to destroy them, but she hid them under her blanket saying she had made the tracks by pressing her hand in the earth.
		When this was accomplished they went back to Navaho Mountain and gave their people the teachings that would perpetuate the Sun's power and wisdom.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/america/am-elo.htm (2393 words)

	Indian Art ! Textiles, Navaho(Navajo) Rugs, Zuni Jewelry, Hopi Pottery, Apache Baskets, Pueblo Pottery
		It is said that Spider Women taught the Navaho women how to weave on a loom made by virtue of instruction from Spider Man. This loom was said to be made of the sky, earth, sun, bolts of lightening and with accessories made of quartz, coal, turquoise and white shell.
		The Navahos during this time were a nomadic people who would often raid their neighbors in search of food and other supplies.
		These raids provided the Navahos with the first of the two necessary elements which led to their eventual proficiency in weaving.
	www.indiantraders.com /aboutart/textiles/navrug1.htm (512 words)

	Erowid Library/Bookstore : 'The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho''
		The chapters attending to the rituals of peyotism and the contrast between it and Navaho religion are particularly good, though none of the materials can be faulted.
		Of import are the chapters explicating the Native American Church, Navaho style, in the theoretical context of social movements.
		In a new preface to this edition he describes the impact on Navaho peyotism of the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision, the reduced supplies of Texas peyote, and the competition from evangelical Christianity.
	www.erowid.org /library/books/peyote_religion_navaho.shtml (352 words)

	SM-64 Navaho United States Nuclear Forces
		The Navaho program called first for the design, construction, and test of a turbojet test vehicle, followed by a 3,600-mile-range interim missiles and culminating in a 5,500-mile-range operational weapon.
		The final Navaho tests consisted of two launches in project RISE (Research in Supersonic Environment), which were equally unsuccessful.
		Nevertheless, USAF saw the Navaho project as a leap forward in the state of the art of missile technology.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/icbm/sm-64.htm (1020 words)

	Navaho G-26
		The engine developed for an earlier version of Navaho was used in the Redstone rocket; that developed for the G-26 booster was used in the Atlas A and Atlas B ballistic missiles.
		This was now dubbed the Navaho I, and would have a 4500 kg nuclear warhead, be equipped with a liquid rocket engine, and be launched from a sled or large aircraft.
		MX-771A / Navaho II: a medium-range supersonic missile that was to compete with the subsconic Matador
	www.astronautix.com /lvs/navhog26.htm (1633 words)

	Navaho mythology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yolkai Estasan (or Yolkai Estsan meaning "white-shell woman") is a (Click link for more info and facts about lunar deity) lunar deity associated with the seasons.
		Her name comes from her creation; she was made from (Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior) abalone.
		Glispa invented (The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques) medicine and taught it to the Navaho.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/navaho_mythology.htm (329 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Navaho was considered to have the range, accuracy, and load-carrying capabilities of a ballistic missile.
		The initial testing of the Navaho configuration began with the X-10, a recoverable scale model of the prototype, powered by two conventional turbojet engines.
		Tests of the X-10 and Navaho were conducted at the Cape between August, 1955 and September, 1958.
	www.space.edu /LibraryResearch/swanson/Exhibits/Navaho.htm (255 words)

	Adventures of Therese Yakshi - Navaho
		While in Taos, I had gotton the name of a Navaho man with a spiritual focus who runs a little campground on the edge of Canyon de Chelly, has a sweatlodge there, and serves as a guide at Canyon de Chelly.
		The Navaho believe the Anasazi were so spiritually evolved, their consciousness just left their bodies but their spirits still inhabit their ruins and out of respect, the Navaho do not enter the ruins.
		All night long there were chants with the drum, or long, quiet, emotional prayers in Navaho, directed toward the young man for whom the ritual was intended.
	www.sacredgroves.com /therese/Navaho.html (1070 words)

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