Navajo County, Arizona

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

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)

The Navajo Indians emulated the pueblo. The shed their animal skin clothing for cotton and learned quickly how to farm. These people settled in between the Rio Grande and the Grand Canyon. They herded sheep and grew corn in the valleys. They were a peaceful group of people, and were one with their surroundings. American settlers started to pour into the area and raids began. There were attempts to negotiate treaties between eighteen-forty-six and eighteen-forty-nine but the Navajo, with

Not since the 1980's has a recent surge of uranium mining claims occured in the Four Corners region. Energy Fuel Resources Inc. has placed its Canyon Mine on standby and expects to resume shaft sinking operations December of next year, when an official court ruling is made and depending on market conditions. Earlier this year the Havasupai Tribe and a coalition of conservation groups sued the United States Forest Service for allowing Energy Fuel Resources Inc. to operate a mine under a 1986 federal

young age. The story develops a dual narrative voice, with the second chapter narrated by Codi, the elder daughter who in the present, is in her thirties. Hallie, the younger sister, withdraws from the home she shares with Codi and Carlo in Tucson Arizona, determined to assist the brand-new communist government with crop production in Nicaragua. Codi also departs from Tucson to return to her rustic hometown of Grace, where Doc Homer has developed Alzheimer's in his old

the total population in Arizona (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2016). Apache County, Arizona contains the largest area of land occupied by the Navajo Nation. “Two-thirds of the population, and over one-half of the land area is comprised of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe” (Apache, 2013). Forty-seven percent of the total Navajo population lives on the Navajo Nation and 51% is under the age of twenty-nine (Navajo Population Profile, 2013). Apache County has the highest AI/AN

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

Evaluation of the Navajo Nation’s General Transportation Plan “If everything in life is very simple and predictable, then we do not need any planning,” (Kim). However, this is not the case today because most developing cities and communities need planning in order to guide their goals and visions for future land-use. A document called a general plan (also known as a comprehensive plan), helps guide developing cities and communities with a detailed framework for its land-use. The Navajo Nation, one of

“thus began the chain of events that provided for liberation of several South and Central American countries.” (Gawronski 24) “Arizona’s fate was in the hands of the governor of New Mexico in Santa Fe.” (Gawronski 24) Helping with the development of Arizona were the mountain men. They marked all there trails so travelers come use them later. Also made friends with Indians who benefited them. The men gave their names to rivers, canyons

Carson Kit Carson was an American frontiersman, trapper, soldier and Indian agent who made an important contribution to the westward expansion of the United States.Kit Carson was born on December the 24th 1809.His place of birth was in Madison County, Kentucky.His death date was in May the 23rd 1868.His place of death was in Fort Lyon, Colorado. Kit Carson tried his best to help out his mother, she had 10 children to raise on her own.When he was 14, Kit Carson moved to Franklin, Missouri