Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Navajo or Navaho (/ ˈ n æ v ə h oʊ, ˈ n ɑː v ə-/ NAV-ə-hoh, NAH-və-; [4] Navajo: Diné bizaad [tìnépìz̥ɑ̀ːt] or Naabeehó bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America.
The Navajo [a] or Diné are an Indigenous people of the Southwestern United States.Their traditional language is Diné bizaad, a Southern Athabascan language.. The states with the largest Diné populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,305).
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Given names which have been used by individuals (historical and fictitious). Use template {{ Given name }} to populate this category. (However, do not use the template on disambiguation pages that contain a list of people by given name.)
10 languages. Català ... Pages in category "Navajo people" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
Radmilla Cody (Navajo/African American), Navajo language singer, 46th Miss Navajo Nation [14] Colestah, Yakama, wife of Chief Kamiakin; Lyda Conley (Wyandot, 1874–1946), first Native American female attorney, and first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Wyandot Nation activist and attorney
According to the Navajos, she created the Navajo people by taking old skin from her body and using her mountain soil bundle (a bag made of four pieces of buckskin, brought by her father from the underworld) to create four couples, who are the ancestors of the four original Navajo clans. [3] She helped create the sky and the earth. [4]
A Navajo named "Yellow Singer" reproduced for her many of the sand paintings on paper with crayons. The Wetherill's also had contact with the Utes and Southern Paiute people who visited the trading post. [8] [9] [10] To establish their trading post the Wetherill's secured the permission of a wealthy local Navajo chief named Hoskinini.