Navajo County

27). When this wish was granted by the mocking bird, the people became very troubled because now they could not understand each other. At this point it was decided that “it would be best to separate” (p. 29). The groups of people being that of the Navajo, Supai, Paiute, Apache, Zuni, Utes, and the Bahana, came together on the fourth day, chose the foodstuff that they wanted to travel with and live on. And as a race, they left on their journey eastward toward the rising sun, the Eastern Star (p. 30)

Introduction Keith H. Basso’s ethnographic research titled, To Give up on Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture is an investigation of situations when members of a certain Apache community in the western United States assume the state of silence as a form of social interaction. In this paper, I will first note details of the society under consideration and Basso’s interests in regards to the questions he is trying to answer. I will introduce some anthropological concepts that are suitable to

individual a sudden feel of the alcohol. It’s an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor or to the metal illness and compulsive behavior resulting from alcohol dependency. Within the Navajo nation reservation, I’d say, alcoholism is a very huge concern in the reservation. Alcohol is obtain and use by Navajo men and women to teenagers of boys and girls. It may be sold a remote area that is call bootleggers. It’s a very complicated drug to make our past and future generation understand it is not

creation of the Bears Ears National Monument include Utah Governor Gary Herbert and several commissioners of San Juan County where the monument is located. President Trump said the monument should not have been created over the objections of the citizens of Utah. Not all the citizens of Utah objected to the creation of this monument. Bears Ears is a sacred site to local members of the Navajo Nation, Hopi, Zuni, and Ute Mountain Ute tribes. They want Bears Ears to have protections

Shiprock Elder Care Program (a NAAA Program) Shiprock is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. It is the northwest region of the state of New Mexico, containing “Four Corners” (the only point in the United States where four states meet). Significant for desert scenery, it is a large part of the Navajo Nation; this country's largest Indian reservation. (Reznet News, 2011). In the center, and towering over this area is “Shiprock”, a dramatic 7,177-foot-high

rowing up on the Navajo Nation is an experience, compared to residing in a city. I grew up in Tuba city with a population of 5,000, no stop light until I was in elementary school, and played with the neighbor children until dark. Living in a household of fourteen people in a three-bedroom trailer were at times hectic. My siblings were years older, and one of my older sisters began a family in her teen years. The household consisted of cooking for a large family or finding a location to relax. I am

circumstances can you allow your code talker to fall into enemy hands. Your mission is to protect the code… at all cost.” In the movie, Windtalkers, this is how a commander wants his marine to treat the paired Navajo code talker. That is, if it’s necessary, his marine could kill the Navajo, just like abandoning one of his properties. Even in the mid 1900s, the Native Americans were still treated not as human beings, but rather, machines; therefore, it is not hard for us to imagine how even more

Want to know a little known fact? Local government is one of the most influential factors in the American way of life, but it is not even mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. Essentially the Constitution set up national and state governments but leaves local governments out creating a gray area. This area has been filled with many different methods and types of government. One of the ideas which pertains to filling this gray area is the Tiebout model. In essence this is a model of governance through

the state of Texas. Texas has 254 counties, the most of any state. Each county is governed by a five-member Commissioners Court, which consists of a County Judge (elected at-large) and four Commissioners (elected from single-member precincts). The County Judge has no veto authority over the decisions of the Court, s/he has one vote along with the other Commissioners. In smaller counties, the County Judge also performs judicial functions, while in larger counties his/her role is limited to the Court

governmental functions, and counties, municipalities, and towns and townships all fall into this category. Special purpose local governments generally focus on a specific purpose and one function. Best known of these are the school districts. Regardless of name, it is state government that gives local governments of all types their legal life. Counties were created to function as appendages of the state, but modernization and population growth have put pressures on counties