Navajo

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Navajo (pronounced and sometimes written in English, Navaho), or Diné, (meaning The People in Navajo) refers or relates to the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America, with about 300,000 members. The name Navajo likely originated from the Spanish, ^[1] who may have taken the name from the Tewa language's original word, "navahu" meaning ‘fields adjoining an arroyo.’^[2] The Navajo Nation's reservation encompasses the Four Corners region of northern Arizona, southern Utah, and northern New Mexico, over 16 million acres (65,000 km²). The term Navajo also refers to the Navajo language.

[edit] References

1. ^ Hoezee, S. and C. Meehan: Flourishing in the Land, page 5. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996
2. ^ "Navajo" New Oxford American Dicionary Apple Computer, 2005.

[edit] See also

• Code talkers
• Dine College
• Dinetah
• Hogan
• Long Walk of the Navajo
• Mohave
• Navajo language
• Navajo music
• Navajo mythology
• Navajo Nation
• Navajo people
• Navajo Rug
• Navajo Reservation
• Navajo Tribal Council
• Navajo Tribal Police or Navajo Nation Police
• Skin-walker (mythology)
• Navajo Livestock Reduction

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