Case Study: The Navajo Reservation

The Navajo people believe that creation began in another world. Originally the Navajo began as insects on the first world. Due to continuous quarrelling the leaders of the realm force them

Let’s start with the language portion of the Peoplehood matrix and the affects that settler colonialism has had on Navajo. In Peoplehood, it is stated that the language portion of the Peoplehood matrix is “a group-particular language, by way of its nuances, references, and grammar, gives a sacred history a meaning of its own, particularly if origin, creation, migration, and other stories are spoken rather than written” (Holm, et al. pg. 13). Especially in the late nineteenth century, Navajo children like many other indigenous children were sent to boarding schools. Settler colonialism resulted in a need to as Native Words Native Warriors puts it “eliminate traditional American Indian ways of life and replace them with mainstream American culture.”

In order for the plan to go into action, on October 31, 1862, the establishment of the Fort Sumner was declared and war was made against the Mescalero Apache and Navajo Indian tribes (Robert 2004). As shown in figure 1, a 300 miles route was walked by children, women, and men for about two months. Once they reached the destination, an estimation of 200 people had died from starvation. A couple years later had gone by when the United States decided to introduce a treaty in1868 that allowed the Navajos to return to their homes also now called the reservations.

The Navajo Nation Division of Social Services (NDSS) intake form is used by three agencies under the NDSS umbrella for various services including child welfare for reservation residents, Indian Child Welfare for ICWA/state collaboration, local and off reservation adoption, as well as clinical treatment services. The intake form was developed in 2011 with the intent to gather and report Adoption, Foster Care, Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS) data to the federal government and modified in 2015 to become more streamlined with NDSS’ electronic case management system. The latest revision incorporates various data elements needed to satisfy specific statistical requirements with NDSS’ various funding providers and grantees.

recruit 200 Navajos. In May 1942, the first 29 Navajo recruits attended boot camp. Then, at

This investigation evaluates to what extent did the Navajo code talkers aid the American military during WWII? In order to assess the extent to which these soldiers assisted the American military during WWII, this investigation focuses on their involvement in transmitting military messages in their native tongue, and the events surrounding these transmissions. In addition, the contribution of other Native American code talkers is considered and compared to that of the Navajos specifically within the investigation.

Every culture has their own way of life, their own religious beliefs, their own marriage beliefs, their own values and feelings on life and the options it has to offer. Each culture has their own way to run things within their own government, and own way to keep their economy up to their standards. Also each culture and society have their own primary mode of subsistence that makes them unique. Among the Navajo culture their primary mode of subsistence are pastoralists.   Pastoralists have an impact on different aspects with in the culture.   The aspects that I will be discussing will be the Navajo’s beliefs and values, economic organization, gender relations and sickness and healing.

The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American group in America today, and is the biggest Indian reservation in the United States. Situated in the northeastern part of Arizona and in the northwestern part of New Mexico, it is comprised of nearly ten million acres, or roughly fifteen thousand square miles. In this research paper the author will discuss at least three aspects of the Navajo culture that will include the kinship that the Navajo have with each other, the social structure within Navajo society, the economic organization that sustains the culture and their beliefs and values that

The Navajo Indians used to live in northwestern Canada and Alaska. 1,000 years ago the Navajo Indians traveled south, because there was more qualities they had seeked there. When the Navajo Indians traveled south there was a lot of oil in the 1940’s. Today the Navajo Indians are located in the Four Corners.

The purpose of the San Carlos Apache Tribe (Tribe) Integrated Resource Management Plan (IRMP) is to define the long-term direction for managing the Tribe’s resources. This IRMP includes a vision of the future landscape of the reservation based on a desire to restore ecosystem function to resemble pre-reservation conditions as closely as possible. The IRMP directs all natural resource managers on the reservation, tribal, non-tribal and within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), to work together with tribal leaders, tribal members and all other federal agencies, local entities or businesses to achieve desired future landscape conditions on the reservation.

Ever since white men came to the New World, they were never at peace with the native peoples. One of the first white men to come to North America was Sir Walter Raleigh, who took the Indians he met as slaves as early as 1584. In the years that followed, settlers forced the Native Americans further and further west. By the year 1850, there had been many attempts at peaceful negotiations and uprisings on both sides, but the government eventually decided that reservations were the only way to contain the Indians and have peace. These reservations took away their pride, freedom, and way of life. Native Americans in reservations today are still plagued by lack of food and shelter, health and

The Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the nation with a little over 300,000 members on the largest reservation. The Navajo nation today has dealt with the consequences of mining uranium, limited housing development on their land, and contaminated water resources.

The process for reintegration of civil or criminal offenders back into the folds of the community provides healing, restores relationships, and strengthens community. The Navajo peacemaking system practices that the reintegration of an individual is more important than the crime or punishment committed. Since 1959, Navajo culture attempts to incorporate tribal peacebuilding and restorative justice traditions that have been lost from active use in today’s legal court systems. The Honorable Robert Yazzie retired as Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court after spending 18 years on the bench being an advocate for the use of traditional Navajo law in restorative justice practices. He also worked tirelessly in that time to convince the United States Supreme Court to restore full tribal sovereignty to the Navajo Nation (Mirsky, 2004, p.1). The Hualapai

The Code Talkers had to understand each other perfectly. The talkers did this by meeting in a room for a really long time to make the code. When the Navajos made the code the coders named certain vehicles after animals. For example the Navajos named submarines “iron fish”. Everyone was trained and quizzed so hard so that the coders could send and receive messages perfectly. Once there was a 6 hour period where the Navajos sent and received more than 800 messages perfectly.

While working with the Native American community there are many policies that interconnect between my client and the three different level of policies. On the Macro level the policies that connect cohesively is the implementation of programs to support the functions of the Native American families Much of the funding for the programs are generated through the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health services. These government agencies oversee much of the funding for the community. Numerous positions of employment are funded through grants and stipends. Of these positions, case managers, therapist, and behavioral health consultants all play a key role in providing services to the community. Although the BIA was originally implemented as a supervisory role, it is currently in the process of transitioning to an advisory role. After the transition of healthcare to Indian Health Services, the BIA held the role of dictating to the tribes and enforcing the treaties between the government and the tribes. Since