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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 People \| Utah.com
		Centuries ago, the Navajo people were taught by the Holy People to live in harmony with Mother Earth and how to conduct their many activities of everyday life.
		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.
		The Navajo people are very dynamic and creative people who strongly believe in the power of the mind to think and create; finding expression in the myriad symbolic creations of the Navajo language, art and ritual ceremonies.
	www.utah.com /tribes/navajo_people.htm (671 words)

	Navajo, indigenous people of North America. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A migration from the North to the Southwest area is thought to have occurred in the past because of an affiliation with N Athabascan speakers; the Navajo settled among the Pueblo and also assimilated with the Shoshone and the Yuma both physically and culturally while remaining a distinct social group.
		The traditional Navajo religion is elaborate and complex, with many deities, songs, chants, and prayers and numerous ceremonies, such as the enemy way ceremony (commonly called the squaw dance) and the night chant.
		The Navajo were a predatory tribe who (often in alliance with their relatives, the Apache) constantly raided the Pueblo and later the Spanish and Mexican settlements of New Mexico.
	www.bartleby.com /65/na/NavajoInd.html (692 words)

	NAVAJO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Navajo are of the the Athabascan language group and their relationship and travels are told of on that page.
		The Navajo story of their origin is long and complicated with many versions varying to as having come through twelve underworlds grouped by fours into three layers, or "rooms" which are also called worlds.
		The Navajo Reservation is roughly the size of West Virginia and they are the largest tribe in the U.S. with a population now of 1/4 million.
	www.ausbcomp.com /redman/navajo.htm (1062 words)

	FAQ's About Life on the Navajo Nation & Among the Navajo People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Tewas appear to have identified the Diné to the Spanish as the people farming the canyons to the west.
		Navajo travelers returning from trips to Canada and Alaska have commented that they were able to converse with the peoples there, although minor shifts in pronunciations between the sources were obvious.
		Originally, Navajo women wore dresses made from two hand-woven blankets that were laid on top of each other, back to back, and sewn together in places along the top and side edges, leaving the bottom open with a head-hole at the top and places for arms along the top of the sides.
	www.navajocentral.org /faq02a.htm (20613 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)

	Navajo Nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Large non-contiguous sections of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico are: Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation in western Cibola County and southern McKinley County; Alamo Bend Navajo Indian Reservation in northwestern Socorro County; and Canoncito Indian Reservation in western Bernalillo County and eastern Cibola County.
		Adjacent or nearly adjacent to the Navajo Reservation are the Southern Ute of Colorado, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico, both to the north; the Jicarilla Apache to the east, and other tribes to the west and south.
		Navajos are known for their sandpainting, performed for healing ceremonies and as part of other spiritual activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Navajo_Nation (2554 words)

	Navajo Nation - Crystalinks
		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.
		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)

	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)

	Navajo Nation Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., today issued a statement to reflect his thoughts and feelings regarding the tragic experience during the Long Walk of the Navajos, their imprisonment at Fort Sumner and his optimism about the future of the Navajo people.
		A people who were rich among themselves, who built, made and grew everything they used, and who taught their children everything they knew as they had for countless generations, were reduced to pitiful shadows of human existence through a moving campaign of death and destruction.
		If the Bosque Redondo Memorial to the Navajo people and children who suffered and died marks a purpose greater than remembrance, it is that Diné will continue to survive, endure, grow and prosper until the very end of time.
	www.navajonationfair.com /NNF2005/htm/news1.htm (1435 words)

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		Few Navajos were engaged in battle or even sighted, and Doniphan’s operation became more of a wilderness exercise, with the harsh elements as the enemy.
		Navajos claimed that a soldier had cut their horse’s bridle rein, but the soldier-judges refused to run the race again; the Indians rioted and were fired upon with howitzers.
		Their solution to the persistent marauding of both Apaches and Navajos was the removal of the Indians from the areas of extensive Mexican and Anglo-American settlement along the valleys and trails.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/navajo.htm (1614 words)

	Navajo
		The Navajo believe that they were created by sacred beings and emerged from lower worlds until reaching this, their fourth world (or fifth depending on who is telling the story).
		Despite current theory that the Navajo, along with all the other Native American cultures, traveled across the land bridge and traversed the North American continent, the oldest dates for any human habitation in the western hemisphere is in South America.
		In spite of all that the U.S. government had done to the Navajos as well as all the other Indian tribes, the Navajo still felt as if this were their country when, in December 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on an island in Hawaii which was not yet a state.
	www.anthro4n6.net /navajo (4068 words)

	Dineh (Navajo) Home Page
		The Dineh (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 two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel.
		The NASA people told them that they were just men that were getting ready to go to the moon.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /navajo.htm (1102 words)

	Navajo - DesertUSA
		The Navajo Nation (population 200,000) and Navajo reservation (28,000 square miles) are the largest in the United States.
		The Navajo (Dine') Reservation is in the Great Basin Desert region on the Colorado Plateau and occupies most of the northeastern portion of Arizona, extends into northwest New Mexico and a southern strip of Utah.
		The Navajos emerged as a distinctive culture in northwestern New Mexico in the 17th and 18th centuries, when scattered Athapaskan bands formed a coalition of their own peoples and forged an alliance with Puebloan war refugees.
	www.desertusa.com /ind1/du_peo_navajo.html (430 words)

	LAPAHIE.com 3.4 \ Navajo Creation Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this hogan, the people began to arrange their world, naming the four sacred mountains surrounding the land and designating the four sacred stones that would become the boundaries of their homeland.
		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.
		She married the Sun and bore two son, twins, and heroes to the Navajo people.
	www.lapahie.com /Creation.cfm (1287 words)

	Navajo Nation Parks & Recreation
		The Holy People created this world for us from which we are never to stray and which we must always protect.
		The Mission of the Navajo Parks and Recreation Department is to protect, preserve and manage tribal parks, monuments and recreation areas for the perpetual enjoyment and benefit of the Navajo Nation – the spectacular landscapes, buttes, canyons, clean air, diversity of plants and wildlife, and areas of beauty and solitude.
		The Office of Navajo Parks and Recreation Department is located in the capital of the Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona.
	www.navajonationparks.org (443 words)

	Navajo Nation Council Office of the Speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The hour-long event was the highlight of the two-day 2003 Navajo Nation Veterans’ Day Celebration sponsored by the Office of the Speaker, Navajo Department of Veterans Affairs, Miss Navajo Nation Marla Billey and the Navajo Nation Blue Star Mothers.
		The front says “NAVAJO CODE TALKERS” and “BY ACT OF CONGRESS 2000,” and is engraved with two Navajo Code Talkers translating the code.
		Because of the importance of the Navajo language on this day, Council delegate Katherine Benally (Dennehotso) made a poignant statement by translating Renzi’s speech into Navajo for the audience.
	www.navajonationcouncil.org /pr/Receivedmedals.htm (1298 words)

	Navajo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	An Introduction to the Navajo Culture
		The Navajo people, unlike so many Indian brothers, have been blessed to remain in our ancestral homeland.
		The Navajo way is not just for the Navajo but was given by the Holy Ones for all peoples.
		But now, we as a people are wiser, and like a relative that has been sick, we are making our culture well again.
	waltonfeed.com /peoples/navajo/culture.html (1892 words)

	Experience the Culture of the Navajo People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Here at the Navajo Village we invite you to take part in our story telling, our food preparation, our daily lives and to learn more of our unknown Navajo culture.
		As you visit with our people you will learn of the things that bring joy and beauty to our lives; harmony, relationships, industry, and creativity.
		Come and experience first hand the trades of the Native American people and celebrate the beauty of Navajo land.
	www.navajo-village.com (142 words)

	Discover Navajo - People of the Fourth World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Discover Navajo - People of the Fourth World
		Online travel guide to the Navajo Nation, providing visitor information about Navajo culture, attractions, events and articles.
		Plan your next Navajo vacation with our calendar of events, map, tour links and hotel directory.
	www.discovernavajo.com (83 words)

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