Navajo

Examples of Navajo in the following topics:

• Art and Architecture of the Southwest Cultures

  • Prior to European invasion of North America, the region of the Southwest was dominated by the Pueblo, Navajo, Apache, Hopi, and Zuni peoples, among others.
  • In the 1850s, the Navajos adopted silversmithing from the Mexicans.
  • Atsidi Sani (Old Smith) was the first Navajo silversmith, and the technology quickly spread to surrounding tribes.
  • Sandpainting is an aspect of Navajo healing ceremonies that inspired an art form.
  • The Navajo are well-known today for their use of turquoise in jewelry.

• American Indians and the War Effort

  • In February 1942, a white civilian named Philip Johnston came up with the idea of using the Navajo language as military code.
  • Johnston, a missionaries' son, grew up on a reservation and understood the complexity of the Navajo language.
  • By September 1942, the American government had recruited several hundred American Indians who spoke both Navajo and English to translate English words into the Navajo language to avoid enemy interception.
  • The code itself was composed of carefully selected Navajo words that used poetic circumlocution so that even a Navajo speaker would not be able to understand the commands without proper training.
  • In 2001, the 28 members of the Navajo Code Breakers were awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, mostly posthumously.

• The Southwest

  • Additionally, the Navajo and Apache peoples emigrated from Northern Canada to the Southwest sometime after 1000 CE.
  • Art in the Navajo culture is traditionally gender-based.
  • Describe the Anasazi, Hopi, Navajo, and Hohokam cultures of the American Southwest.

• Ecosystem Dynamics

  • In May of 1993, an unexplained pulmonary illness struck inhabitants of the southwestern United States in an area shared by Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah known as "The Four Corners. " A young, physically fit Navajo man suffering from shortness of breath was rushed to a hospital in New Mexico and died rapidly.
  • The Navajo Native Americans recognize a similar disease in their medical traditions, and associate its occurrence with mice.

• Soil Formation

  • An example is shown here in the soft sediment deformation in the Navajo Sandstone.

• Western and Non-Western

  • They are all examples of Western music, and are all more like each other than they are like a Navajo lullaby, a Chinese opera, or a west African praise song.

• The Great Society

  • One of EOA’s successes was the Rough Rock Demonstration School on the Navajo Reservation that, while respecting Navajo traditions and culture, also trained people for careers and jobs outside the reservation.

• Ranchers, Cowboys, and Cattle

  • Pleasant Valley is located in Gila County, Arizona, but many of the events related to this feud took place in neighboring Apache and Navajo counties.

• The West and the Civil War

  • Significant campaigns include the Sioux Wars in Minnesota (1862) and campaigns against the Navajo in Arizona (1864).