Navajo guide for tourists in Monument Valley
Navajo (sometimes written Navaho), or Diné, (meaning The People in Navajo) refers or relates to the Navajo people, currently the second largest Native American tribe in the United States, with 298,197 people claiming to be full or partial Navajo in the 2000 U.S. census.[1]
The name Navajo likely originated from the English, [2] who may have taken the name from the Tewa language's original word, "navahu" meaning ‘fields adjoining an arroyo.’[3] The Navajo Nation's reservation encompasses the Four Corners region of northern Arizona, southern Utah, and northern New Mexico, over 16 million acres (65,000 km²). The word Navajo also refers to the Navajo language.
References
- ^ "The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2000". Census 2000 Brief (2002-02-01). Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
- ^ Hoezee, S. and C. Meehan: Flourishing in the Land, page 5. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996
- ^ "Navajo" New Oxford American Dicionary Apple Computer, 2005.
Further reading
- Brugge, Doug; Benally, Timothy Yazzie-Lewis, Esther (2006). The Navajo People and Uranium Mining. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826337783. OCLC 71126689.
- Denetdale, Jennifer (2007). Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816524204. OCLC 76901886.
- Iverson, Peter and Roessel, Monty (2002). Diné: A History of the Navajos. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826327141. OCLC 49679632.
- Sherry, John W. (2002). Land, Wind, and Hard Words: A Story of Navajo Activism. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826322816. OCLC 48588424.
See also
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