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The museum is located in a modern building in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation, [1] next to the Navajo Zoo.It is in the approximate center of a 27,000-square-mile (70,000 km 2) Navajo reservation, about 500 yards (0.46 km) west of Arizona's border with New Mexico.
[4] [5] The Navajo Livestock Reduction Program was created by John Collier, the Indian Affairs Commissioner in the 1930s, which resulted in the Diné people losing more than half their livestock, [6] causing "massive trauma to the Navajo world." The program negatively impacted land use, religious practices, health, education and tribal government.
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Window Rock is the site of the Navajo Nation governmental campus, which contains the Navajo Nation Council, Navajo Nation Supreme Court, the offices of the Navajo Nation President and Vice President, and many Navajo government buildings. Window Rock's population was 2,500 at the 2020 census. [4]
DiscoverNavajo.com reports that 96% of the Navajo Nation is American Indian, and 66% of Navajo tribe members live on Navajo Nation. [84] The average family size was 4.1, and the average household was home to 3.5 persons. The average household income in 2010 was $27,389. [2]
The museum obtained a copy of the treaty in 2019 and will display it next week to mark its signing on June 1, 1868. Navajo Nation Museum to display its copy of 1868 treaty Skip to main content
In addition to the still active mission church, there is a museum on site, displaying Navajo artifacts, as well as items from the early Franciscan presence on the site. [5] In 2023, the Franciscans announced that they would transfer the mission to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup .
On Sunday, the 40th annual celebration of Navajo Code Talkers Day was especially sweet, as the Navajo Code Talkers Museum (NCTM) broke ground in Tse Bonito, New Mexico. The museum was established ...