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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.
[2] [3] The land was located six miles outside of Fort Defiance, and about one mile outside the boundaries of the Navajo Reservation. There was initial difficulty in finding personnel willing to staff the mission, but Sister Katharine visited the Cincinnati province of Franciscans in 1897, and they agreed to provide the manpower. [ 3 ]
DiscoverNavajo.com reports that 96% of the Navajo Nation is American Indian, and 66% of Navajo tribe members live on Navajo Nation. [89] 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]
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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
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]
A museum in New Mexico to honor the Navajo Code Talkers is about $40 million shy of becoming a reality, according to organizers. The state put $6.4 million in capital outlay funds toward the ...
The museum's earliest names were the Navajo House of Prayer and the House of Navajo Religion, but, soon after it opened to the public, its name officially became the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Navajo Nation exerted its independence through a number of sweeping changes, including the establishment of its own ...