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The four sacred mountains in the cardinal directions of Navajo Country hold great importance. They are named in sunwise order and associated with the colors of the four cardinal directions: Sisnaajiní or Blanca Peak (white in the east), Tsoodził or Mt. Taylor (blue in the south), Doko’oosłííd or the San Francisco Peaks (yellow in the ...
The English designation Agathla is derived from the Navajo name aghaałą́ meaning 'much wool', apparently for the fur of antelope and deer accumulating on the rock. [3] The mountain is considered sacred by the Navajo. Agathla Peak is an eroded volcanic plug consisting of volcanic breccia cut by dikes of an unusual igneous rock called minette.
Blanca Peak is known to the Navajo people as the Sacred Mountain of the East: Sisnaajiní [11] (or Tsisnaasjiní [12]), the Dawn or White Shell Mountain. The mountain is considered to be the eastern boundary of the Dinetah , the traditional Navajo homeland.
The Navajo Nation is served by various print media operations. The Navajo Times used to be published as the Navajo Times Today. Created by the Navajo Nation Council in 1959, it has been privatized. It continues to be the newspaper of record for the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Times is the largest Native American-owned newspaper company in the ...
The latest on hiking, camping and other activities at Canyon de Chelly, Navajo National Monument, Hubbell Trading Post and Four Corners Monument. These 4 Navajo Nation historic sites have reopened ...
The Holy People, or Diyin Diné, had instructed the Earth People to view the four sacred mountains as the boundaries of the homeland they should never leave: Blanca Peak (Sisnaajiní — Dawn or White Shell Mountain) in Colorado; Mount Taylor (Tsoodził — Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain) in New Mexico; the San Francisco Peaks ...
The yellow sun beneath the concentric circles shines on four sacred mountains of the Navajo Nation in their ceremonial colours. White on a top stands for White-Shell Woman ( Blanca Peak ), blue one in the east represents Turquoise Woman ( Mount Taylor ), yellow to the south symbolizes Abalone Woman ( San Francisco Peaks ) and the black in the ...
Navajo cultural advisor George R. Joe explains the painful history, and present-day controversies, that shaped his work on AMC crime drama 'Dark Winds.' Stereotypes. Taboos.