The Navajo Indian Culture

The Navajo (or Dine), which means “The People” are located on the Navajo reservation, spanning more than 27,000 miles, at the four corners of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. The 2010 Census Brief reports the

Wisdom can be accumulated throughout a lifetime and passed along to someone else, if they are willing to listen. Thus, lessons learned by a parent can be passed to their child becoming generational knowledge. Similarly, cultures have oral myths and legends for the same purpose. One such example is the Navajo Origin Legend, used to preserve Navajo culture and the history, to teach about relationships with nature and between people, and entertains and amuses the listeners. Contained within the Navajo Origin Legend is a repetitive incremental development of the Navajo people and the world the live in.

The navajo tribe are also called the dine tribe. Who had lived in the southern dezert area like Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. The navajo indians were semi-nominate and were called hunter-gathers. The men were in charge of getting food and keeping the camp safe from predators,and the women were in charge of the homes and land. The navajo indians had kelp sheep and goats around and had used there wool for clothes. The navajo tribe is related to the athabascan people by central canada. They had traveled to the southwest before the europeans had showed up. There tribe had consisted of medicine men and shamen.

Economic development is vital to address the unemployment rate on the Navajo Reservation. Gaming has become one the Navajo Nations successful enterprises and largest employers. It has created 1200 jobs, 83% are held by the Navajos. Gaming has invested in the cattle ranchers, Navajo owned subcontractors and contributed 7.4 million dollars to the reservation land. The National Congress of American Indians started the Native Financial Education Coalition expand and enhance financial capability in Native communities. Partner organizations include tribes, tribal organizations, national, regional, local Native and non-Native organizations, financial institutions, federal agencies, Congressional offices, and others interested in Native financial education.

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The Navajo Native Americans experienced multiple struggles throughout their tribe’s history, mostly surrounding the problems to do with the United States military and the Spaniards pushing them from their territory. Although this was the fate of multiple tribes of Native Americans, the Navajo struggled intensely to leave their homeland. The Navajo were a beautiful tribe with multiple hardships. The Navajo tribe was formed sometime around the 1500s, and developed to become the largest Native American tribe. The word Navajo comes from “Tewa Navahu”, translating to mean “highly cultivated lands” loosely.

According to the history of the Navajo Tribe, the Holy People lived in the underworld and helped by guiding the First Man and First Woman to earth (McCoy 1988). The Holy People are said to be attracted to songs, dances, and chants during the ceremony along with the creation of Sandpainting. The Sandpainting is used in the healing process of the ceremony to draw a picture that tells a story of the Holy People. The Navajo culture have amazed so many people to how beautifully constructed the rituals are performed.

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.

“Navajo trading has been a crucial component of that tribe's localized economy for generations and has been the subject of much scholarship over the years (Kiser, 2012).” Trading is what has really distinguished the Navajo from other cultures. They traded with the Spanish at first and then on to other tribes. They were first introduced to a horse from being able to establish trade with the Spanish in the 1620’s. Many other native cultures went

According, to the lecture the story is told in third person omniscient, and we get more than Ayah, the old woman is capable of giving. Additionally, the old woman and her husband live in railroad boxcars, and story has little action, as the history of the Navajo Indian is interpreted in this short story by the old woman. Moreover, the old woman recalls the taking away of children from their parents and placing them in BIA schools. In contrast, she commence to reminiscence about her husband Chato, a demoralized laborer with no insurance, and no job security. Nonetheless, he is an alcoholic that spends his money at the bar with a bad memory, and the old woman hates him.

The Navajo, also known as the Diné, are one of the largest Native American Tribes in the world. Their culture is made up of very distinct and unique characteristics that have been passed down from generation to generation. They have been taught to adapt to their surroundings and to the land. Each moral, standard, belief and value are what make the Navajo so unique to the Native Americans. In the following, their primary mode of subsistence, kinship system, beliefs, values, and economic organizations will be briefly examined to gain a better knowledge of the Navajo culture.

The Diné means “The People” and it is what the people that we know presently as the Navajo went by. The Red Nation article “Considering a Navajo Name Change: Self-Identification, Land, and Liberation” by Majerle Lister states that “‘Navajo’ is not a Diné word or concept, despite its use as our [the Diné] official name for more than a hundred and fifty years.” This is a clear example of how settler colonialism has impacted the Navajo Nation. Settler colonialism has had an impact in the Peoplehood matrix of the Navajo from language and sacred history to place/territory and ceremonial cycles, yet it has not stop efforts from the Navajo Community to mend the damage that settler colonialism has had on their culture over the years.

The endeavor to keep Cherokee culture alive through works of pottery, woven baskets, paintings, beaded clothing, or other assorted items has always been a focus of the Cherokee people. Building One Fire is a compilation of Cherokee art showcasing the variety of mediums they express their creative styles through and illustrating the Cherokee way of life. Throughout the years, the government of the United States has played a large part in this struggle, whether they are repressing their culture, acting as patrons to the Cherokee artists, or directly and indirectly influencing the Cherokee artists through legislation regarding the Cherokee Nation.

Have you ever wonder how the world was created from another culture’s perspective? Native Americans used creation myths to explained to their people how the world was developed overtime. Creation myths are a big part of the Native American culture. they have been passed down from generation to generation. In the creation myths, harmony with nature, rituals, and strong social values are shown in each myths. The purpose of having strong social value in these myths is to teach younger Native Americans valuable lesson if they ever do something bad. These myths reveals how the rituals were created and their intentions for doing it. Creation myths has harmony with nature in it to show a very close kinship between them

One aspect to be respected and understood, about American Indians, is their history and culture dates back much farther than Americans in US history. Consequently, the relationship developed between American Indians and the United States is as unique as it is complicated. This unique relationship started because the American Indians were the first faces seen by fresh colonials from Europe. Despite this fact, the American Indians have faced cultural appropriation on a level that cannot be compared to any other ethnic group or minority. Any American who has been through kindergarten can associate Indians and Pilgrims with Thanksgiving, but how many of those Americans know of the Battle of Little Bighorn or the Alcatraz Proclamation? It is this lack of awareness that has created continued injustice allowing American Indian culture to be exploited. For the only culture native to this country to be so trivially appropriated, for centuries, is disgraceful.