Sheep became a form of currency and family status. Meat became essential in the Navajo diet. They adopted herding sheep and goats from the Spaniards as a main source of trade and food. Later, they learned farming from Pueblo peoples, growing mainly the Pueblos' traditional " Three Sisters" of corn, beans, and squash. Initially, the Navajos were largely hunters and gatherers. The Navajo oral tradition is transcribed to retain references to this migration. Īrchaeological and historical evidence suggests the Athabaskan ancestors of the Navajos and Apaches invaded the Southwest around 1400 AD. Additionally, some Navajos speak Navajo Sign Language, which is either a dialect or daughter of Plains Sign Talk. Speakers of various other Athabaskan languages located in Canada may still comprehend the Navajo language despite the geographic and linguistic deviation of the languages. The Apache language is closely related to the Navajo Language the Navajos and Apaches migrated from northwestern Canada and eastern Alaska, where the majority of Athabaskan speakers reside. The language comprises two geographic, mutually intelligible dialects.
Although they referred to themselves as the Diné, meaning (the) people. The Navajos are speakers of a Na-Dené Southern Athabaskan language which they call Diné bizaad (lit. Navajos spinning and weaving on vertical loom īesides the Navajo Nation proper, a small group of Navajos are members of the federally recognized Colorado River Indian Tribes. More than three-fourths of the enrolled Navajo population resides in these two states. The states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,306). The Navajo language is spoken throughout the region, and most Navajos also speak English. The Navajo Reservation is slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles (70,000 square km) of land in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The Navajos ( / ˈ n æ v ə h oʊ, ˈ n ɑː v ə-/ British English: Navaho Navajo: Diné or Naabeehó) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. Indigenous Religion, Native American Church, ChristianityĪpachean ( Southern Athabascan) peoples, Dene ( Northern Athabascan) peoples ( Navajo Nation, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah).ħ00 Residents of Canada identified as having Navajo ancestry in the 2016 Canadian Census. James and Ernie, a Navajo comedy duo and actorsģ99,690 enrolled tribal members (2021)
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