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	The Navajo Nation - History Page
		Navajo men were selected to create codes and serve on the front line to overcome and deceive those on the other side of the battlefield.
		Navajo Code Talkers At Iwo Jima, Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division signal officer, declared, "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima." Connor had six Navajo code talkers working around the clock during the first two days of the battle.
		Many Navajo soldiers are recognized in the annals of history for their role as Code Talkers, whereby they used the native language to create a code that was never broken by the enemy.
	www.navajo.org /history.htm (1119 words)

	Navajo Nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Dine'é) is the name of a sovereign Native American nation established by the Diné.
		The Navajo Indian Reservation covers about 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometres) of land, occupying all of northeastern Arizona, and extending into Utah and New Mexico, and is the largest land area assigned primarily to a Native American jurisdiction within the United States.
		Navajos are known for their sandpainting, performed as part of their religion and for healing ceremonies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Navajo_Nation (1916 words)

	Navajo language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Navajo (Diné bizaad) (occasionally spelled Navaho) is a Southern Athabaskan or Apachean language of the Athabaskan language family, belonging to the Na-Dené phylum.
		Navajo claims more speakers than any other Native American language north of the Mexican border, with more than 100,000 native speakers, and this number is actually increasing with time.
		Navajo has verb stems that classify a particular object by its shape or other physical characteristics in addition to describing the movement or state of the object.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /navajo_language.htm (1809 words)

	navajotimes.com - The newspaper of the Navajo People
		Navajos get ready for casinos, with a private ceremony that may start the cash wheels rolling by next summer.
		In the nearly two years since the Navajo Nation Council passed the Sex Offender Registry Act, the only thing that's changed is the Division of Public Safety has lost its pricey digital fingerprint identification system.
		A new exhibit at the Navajo Nation Museum, developed with the Smithsonian Institution, presents photos and other memorabilia of past soldiers, both living and dead, in a display that provokes emotion.
	rd.business.com /index.asp?epm=s.1&bdcq=Navajo&bdcr=2&bdcu=http://www.thenavajotimes.com/&bdct=20071202094120&bdcp=&partner=2662601&bdcs=nwuuid-2662601-282560FD-E2D9-92EC-5158-B59DD39FE96F-ym (694 words)

	Navajo Nation - Crystalinks
		Navajos believe that a medicineman is a uniquely qualified individual bestowed with supernatural powers to diagnose a person's problem and to heal or cure illnesses.
		Navajo land is, as it has always been, a land in transition, a blending of the past and the present, reaching out confidently to embrace the future.
		The Navajos belief is that their Creator placed them on the land between the 4 mountains representing the 4 cardinal directions: These mountains represent the major parts of the traditional Navajo religious beliefs, helping them to live in harmony with both nature and their Creator.
	www.crystalinks.com /navajos.html (4081 words)

	People of the Colorado Plateau-The Navajo (Diné)
		There is a high likelihood that the Navajos reached the Four Corners area and settled down well before the abandonment of the region by the Pueblo Peoples.
		The Navajos of the early Spanish period were quite distinct from the sheep herding, blanket-weaving Navajo peoples that Americans came to know in the nineteenth century.
		The Navajo reservation is by far the largest reservation in the U.S., with over 15 million acres of land, and a human population of over 148,000.
	www.cpluhna.nau.edu /People/navajo.htm (1493 words)

	Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Navajo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whether either the Navajo genesis story or the Bering Strait theory is true, the fact remains that the Navajos have always progressed intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually.
		The Navajos speak a language that belongs to the Southern Athabaskan family, a language group that is also common to Apachean peoples, including those known as Jicarillas, Mescaleros, and White Mountain Apaches.
		Navajo men also developed the art of silversmithing from their knowledge of flsmithing, which they acquired from the Spaniards.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_025200_navajo.htm (2328 words)

	THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE: A BRIEF SOCIAL HISTORY OF NAVAJO WEAVING
		Navajo weaving has captured the imagination of many not only because they are beautiful, well-woven textiles but also because they so accurately mirror the social and economic history of Navajo people.
		Navajo people tell us they learned to weave from Spider Woman and that the first loom was of sky and earth cords, with weaving tools of sunlight, lightning, white shell, and crystal.
		It is testimony to the resiliency of Navajo culture that a period of internment could produce a robust period of change and continuity in weaving.
	www.collectorsguide.com /fa/fa064.shtml (1356 words)

	Navajo (Diné Bizaad)
		Navajo is a member of the Athapaskan branch of the Na-Dené language family and is spoken by about 120,000 people in Arizona and New Mexico.
		Navajo first appeared in writing in 1849 in the form of a Navajo word list published in the Journal of a Military Reconnaissance by Lt. James H. Simpson.
		Unfortunately this alphabet was not popular among the Navajo, partly as a result of their anger at Collier's policies on livestock reduction, which led them to distrust his literacy drive.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/navajo.htm (346 words)

	Navajo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Navajo Reservation is also the largest Indian reservation in the United States, covering a total of 17.5 million acres and stretches across northwest New Mexico, northeast Arizona, and southeast Utah.
		Navajo belief is that The People emerged into the world, the fourth world, to escape a flood in the lower world.
		In 1864, after a series of skirmishes and battles, a large portion of the Navajo population was forced away from their beloved homelands to the Bosque Redondo, an experimental reservation about 400 miles away on the plains of eastern New Mexico.
	www.sos.state.nm.us /BLUEBOOK/navajo.htm (892 words)

	Navajo Religion
		A Navajo's relationship to the land where he or she is born is established at birth, when his or her umbilical cord is buried near the hogan.
		The story of the creation of the Navajo people and their emergence onto their sacred homeland is recounted in a ceremony known as the Blessingway, which is the foundation of the Navajo way of life.
		Navajo healing ceremonies are used to cope with the uncertainties and dangers that occur in the universe.
	www.xpressweb.com /zionpark/index3.html (1375 words)

	Navajo Nation
		A Navajo elder,Thelma Nez, in traditional dress is preparing to tend to her daily livestock chores.
		Navajo legend teaches that Navajo women learned the art of weaving from Spider Woman who constructed a loom according to directions given by Spider Man. They were Holy People who came from the underworld, where weaving was their way of life.
		Navajo lore teaches that when the Dineh came from the underworld, First Man brought turquoise with him and directed shovels to be made of turquoise to dig channels and drain much of the water that was present.
	www.americanwest.com /pages/navajo2.htm (3753 words)

	american indian cultural links
		From documented accounts passed down through time in Navajo families, the explanation given the Navajo was that they were being required to "give up the education of their children to the white man.
		Navajo people lamented this for years and it may still for the basis for refering to schools today as "the White Man's school".
		Rather than accept the Navajo's solutions to living with their environment, the author is judgemental because they don't live in the same manner he is familiar with as "civilized".
	www.navajocentral.org /amerind_culture.htm (1374 words)

	Navajo HOGAN: North American Native American Indian Pre-Contact Housing
		In "Blessings of Dawn," Navajo artist Mark Silversmith perfectly conveys the dawn at a winter hogan, where the sheepherder's family -- including baby on mother's back -- have come out of their cosy hogan to sing to the dawn, with a fire getting started on the fresh snow.
		The Navajo Community College, main campus at Tsaile, AZ, was begun in 1970, in some rooms at Rough Rock Tribal Demonstration School (founded in 1968, and also the first school for Indians to be controlled by Indians).
		Off-reservation Navajo people who have little access to tribal educational activities might obtain this book and study it for an overview of the most important part of their heritage for themselves and their children.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/houses/hogan.html (2337 words)

	Navajo People \| Utah.com
		Navajo legend tells us that the Dineh had to pass through three different worlds before emerging into the present world-the Fourth World or Glittering World.
		The Navajo woman's traditional style of dress consists usually of foot or knee-high moccasins, a pleated velvet or cotton skirt, a matching long-sleeve blouse, concho and/or sash belt, jewelry and a shawl.
		Navajos were inducted and trained in the U.S. Marine Corps to become "code talkers" on the frontline.
	www.utah.com /tribes/navajo_people.htm (671 words)

	Canyon Country Originals Navajo Indian Rug Gallery, Part 1 of 2
		As these Navajo weavers expand their innate sense of design and harmony, their weavings are constantly improving.
		From the spiritual side, the Navajos believe that the art of weaving was passed on to them by Spider Woman, a deity of the Navajo emergence story.
		Here is an excellent example of a Raised Outline textile, now called a "New Lands." In the Hopi/Navajo land arguments, a number of Navajo families were moved out of the Coal Mine Mesa area, and moved into a newly acquired extension of the Navajo Nation, roughly south of Interstate 40, near Sanders, AZ.
	www.canyonart.com /rugs.htm (1414 words)

	Ms. Safarik's page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Navajo homes are called hogans and are made of wooden poles, tree bark, mud or clay and were originally eight sided.
		Many Navajo families still live in hogans which, because of their design, are cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
		The Navajo are well known for their weaving even today-they use the wool from these sheep for their clothing, blankets, and rugs.
	education.nebrwesleyan.edu /eisenhower/partsites/northeastpage/safarik.html (872 words)

	"the People's Paths home page!" - History - Navajo Code Talkers
		Johnston, the son of a missionary to the Navajo tribe, was fluent in the language, having lived among the Navajos for 24 years.
		Johnston's rationale for this belief was that Navajo is an unwritten language and completely unintelligible to anyone except another Navajo, and that it is a rich fluent language for which code words, in Navajo, could be devised for specialized military terms, such as the Navajo word for "turtle" representing a tank.
		Although recruitment of the Navajos was comparatively slow at the time the program was first established, Marine recruiting teams were sent to the Navajo territory and a central recruiting office was set up at Fort Wingate.
	www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /history/usmccode.htm (753 words)

	NAVAJO INDIANS
		Navajo, or Dine -they call themselves, is the largest tribe of North American Indians.
		The Navajo also began to learn a similar style of weaving, making clothing and art from the Pueblo Indians.
		The Navajo reservation is currently the largest in the United States.
	inkido.indiana.edu /w310work/romac/navajo.htm (263 words)

	Cryptology: Navajo Code Talkers in World War II
		The idea to use Navajo for secure communications came from Philip Johnston, the son of a missionary to the Navajos and one of the few non-Navajos who spoke their language fluently.
		Johnston, reared on the Navajo reservation, was a World War I veteran who knew of the military's search for a code that would withstand all attempts to decipher it.
		The Navajo veterans and their families traveled to the ceremony from their homes on the Navajo Reservation, which includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq61-2.htm (948 words)

	The Din'e (Navajo) People (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Din'e, Dineh, or Navajo Nation is the largest Native nation in the United States both in territory and population.
		Din'e land is rich in reserve subsurface minerals and resources; 100 million barrels of oil; 25 billion cubic feet of natural gas; five billion tons of surface coal; and 80 million pounds of uranium.
		The Angora sheep are raised by the Navajo.
	www.csulb.edu /projects/ais/dine.html (586 words)

	Mario's Cyberspace Station: All you should know about Navajo Code Talkers
		Navajo language, the Code Talkers were able to transmit and decode in 20 seconds a message that would have taken a machine 30 minutes to decipher.
		The Navajo code talkers are know to have sent over 800 messages in a 2 day interval and all of the 800 messages that were sent in those two days not one had an error.
		Navajo code talkers were recognized for their contribution to the war effort.
	mprofaca.cro.net /navajo.html (4885 words)

	LAPAHIE.com 3.4 \ Navajo Creation Story
		Hesperus (Dibé Nitsaa), in Colorado, represents the Black Jet stone, and represents the Navajo’s religious northern boundary.
		After setting the mountains down where they should go, the Navajo deities, or "Holy People", put the sun and the moon into the sky and were in the process of carefully placing the stars in an orderly way.
		All of the angular rock formations on the reservation, such as the immense Black Mesa (Dzil Yíjiin), are seen as the turned-to-stone bodies of the monsters.
	www.lapahie.com /Creation.cfm (1217 words)

	The flag of the Navajo Nation
		The placement of the sacred mountains of the flag is a compromise between modern geography and Navajo legend.
		In early 1995, the flag of the Navajo nation became the first Native American tribal flag to fly into space when it was carried aboard the space shuttle Discovery by astronaut Bernard Harris.
		The shaman also had to be assured that the Discovery's flight path conformed to Navajo religious beliefs in that the spacecraft had to fly in a clockwise direction.
	users.aol.com /Donh523/navapage/navajo.htm (1091 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Navajo Indians
		Though Protestant missionaries have been among the Navajos since the early eighties, and have at present (1910) eleven different missions, an hospital, and three small schools, the number of their adherents is very insignificant.
		On 13 October, 1897, the Franciscans of Cincinnati, Ohio, ac cepted the Navajo mission at the request of Mgr.
		On 3 December, 1902, an industrial boarding-school for the Navajos, erected by Mother Drexel, was opened at St. Michael's, and has since been conducted by her community, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10720a.htm (1172 words)

	Dine (Navajo) Home Page
		The Dine (Navajo), together with the Apache, constitute the southern branch of the Athapascan linguistic family, living in New Mexico, Arizona, western Texas, southeastern Colorado, Utah, and in northern Mexico.
		The earliest recorded mention of the Dine (Navajo) is in 1629, when white settlers from Mexico moved among them.
		Nearby a Navajo sheep herder and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about, occasionally being tended by other NASA personnel.
	www.indians.org /welker/navajo.htm (625 words)

	Navajo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Navajo tribe is the largest in the United States, with some 200,000 people occupying the largest and area reserved for Native Americans - 17 million acres in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.
		The word Navajo derives from the Spanish word for 'people with big fields.' At the time of the arrival of the white man they had developed agriculture, though on a smaller scale than the nearby Hopi and Pueblo peoples.
		The Navajo were less sedentary than the Hopi and Pueblo tribes, but more so than the Apache of the same region.
	www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us /NativeAmericans/Navajo.html (157 words)

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