Navajo

A high school senior explains a few things from his heritage.

This is an interpretation of the Navajo Creation Myth.

The Four Corners are filled with well-known, highly visited national wonders but throughout the Navajo Nation and into the Ute Tribal lands are smaller, less known wonders and destinations.

There are roughly 450 plants that Navajo Indians use as herbal remedies. Navajo medicine is also called Navajo Life Medicine. This is the mixing of several different plants to create the appropriate herbal remedy.

Over the summer I visited a Navajo reservation where I learned the ways of the Indians and how they lived.

Navajo Indians, also known as Diné or "the people," are most commonly known for their textile weaving. A vertical frame loom was used to create blankets and clothing. Garments were dyed with natural vegetable dyes.

This article describes the importance of corn to the Navajo Indians. It tells of the traditions and holidays involving corn.

This article provides a reaction to the film "Seasons of a Navajo," an anthropology documentary.

Navajo was the preferred code language during World War II, and was also used in the Korean War.

Not much information is known about the group called Skinwalkers. Most Navajos fear talking about Skinwalkers lest they become a target of the group's aggression.

Navajo Indian Fry Bread is a fun way to involve the whole family in cooking a meal. It can be served for sit-down or buffet-style dinners.

Information about four free historical attractions found in Arizona.

For all societies, water is the essential resource for continued life.

What do the Navajos and Hopi believe?

The 18th Navajo Tribal Police mystery; Joe Leaphorn, retired, is the lead.

This article shares the similar myths of the Navajo Changing Woman and the Apache White Painted Woman.

Indian life

One of the more interesting things about the Navajo people is their religion. The majority of the Navajo practice a religion referred to as the Navajo Way and they have many ways of expressing and practicing their religion.

This paper is an analysis of the 1930's American Dust Bowl and its effect on the Navajo, as well as an inference of potential causes of the Dust Bowl as they relate to the Navajo people.

This article outlines the major historical events and present day realities that constitute the Navajo Nation and it's people.

A young Navajo woman returns to her people after six years of education by whites and discovers that she is as much an outsider among Indians as she had been in white society.

Of LaFarge's creative works, none present a more scathing indictment of the failures of the Indian educational system than the novel "Laughing Boy" and his 1935 short story "Higher Education."

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Navajo music is song used for ceremonial or popular reasons. The ceremonial music is sacred and must not be made public.

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