Navajo Religious Traditions
NAVAJO RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. Because of it colonial origin, the designation Navajo is in the process of being replaced by the term Diné, a word derived from the phra...
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Navajos
Overview
The Navajo Nation covers a territory larger than the combined states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. It is the largest reservation-based Indian nation within the United ...
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Navajos Occupy Fairchild Plant
United States 1975
Synopsis
Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation was the largest employer on the Navajo Reservation in the 1970s. The tribal council actively cour...
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Peace or Violence: Differences Between the Navajo and Babylonian Creation Myths
"The study of world history is an exhilarating project that offers unparallel opportunity to understand oneself and on...
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When competitors head off for the weeklong Miss Navajo Nation pageant, they bring along their evening gowns, jewelry, high heels, public speaking skills — and butcher knives.On the nation's l...
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One of the Navajos' most enduring legends involves the journey of twin siblings Monster Slayer and Born of Water. As the story goes, the twins were destined to save the world from a race of maraudi...
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When Kinlichiinii John set out to earn a religious emblem for his uniform like other Cub Scouts, he learned that none exists to acknowledge his Navajo beliefs.Neither the traditional Navajo spiritu...
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Ronnie Tallman says that when he joined the Marines, he never expected a spiritual transformation that would put his newfound Navajo tribal beliefs in conflict with his military duties.A military s...
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You can't drive around on your own in this canyon, or hike where you please. And you should ask permission before taking pictures of the Navajo Indians who still live and farm h...
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With only about 80 jail beds on the sprawling 27,000-square-mile Navajo Nation, authorities increasingly face a quandary when they catch a suspect: Who should be locked up and who let go?The guy ac...
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The pavement stops abruptly here, giving way to a sandy, washboard road that takes residents to a place where tires keep roofs from blowing away and electricity and running water are scarce.A sign ...
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New Mexico medical investigators have not performed an autopsy for the Navajo Nation in more than a year because of unpaid bills for their services totaling a quarter-million dollars.That means pro...
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That they had made it off the reservation at all was no small feat in a place where adversity runs as deep as tradition. But they were success stories: Two Navajo girls gone to the big-city univers...
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New Mexico medical investigators have not performed an autopsy for the Navajo Nation in more than a year because of unpaid bills for their services totaling a quarter-million dollars.That means pro...
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