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The Navajo[a] are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

For other uses, see Navajo (disambiguation).

With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021,[1][4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles (70,770 square kilometers) of land in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. The Navajo Reservation is slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. The Navajo language is spoken throughout the region, and most Navajo also speak English.


The states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,306). More than three quarters of the enrolled Navajo population resides in these two states.[5]


Besides being enrolled in the Navajo Nation, some Navajo people are citizens of the federally recognized Colorado River Indian Tribes.

In the media[edit]

In 2000 the documentary The Return of Navajo Boy was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. It was written in response to an earlier film, The Navajo Boy which was somewhat exploitative of those Navajos involved. The Return of Navajo Boy allowed the Navajos to be more involved in the depictions of themselves.[60]


In the final episode of the third season of the FX reality TV show 30 Days, the show's producer Morgan Spurlock spends thirty days living with a Navajo family on their reservation in New Mexico. The July 2008 show called "Life on an Indian Reservation", depicts the dire conditions that many Native Americans experience living on reservations in the United States.


Tony Hillerman wrote a series of detective novels whose detective characters were members of the Navajo Tribal Police. The novels are noted for incorporating details about Navajo culture, and in some cases expanding the focus to include nearby Hopi and Zuni characters and cultures, as well. Some of the novels have been adapted for film/TV, including the series Dark Winds. His daughter has continued the novel series after his death.


In 1997, Welsh author Eirug Wyn published the Welsh-language novel "I Ble'r Aeth Haul y Bore?" ("Where did the Morning Sun go?" in English) which tells the story of Carson's misdoings against the Navajo people from the point of view of a fictional young Navajo woman called "Haul y Bore" ("Morning Sun" in English).[61]

nuclear physicist and a Korean War veteran

Fred Begay

(Navajo-Isleta-San Felipe Pueblo), American professional golfer

Notah Begay III

musician and documentary filmmaker[62]

Klee Benally

New York Yankees outfielder (enrolled Colorado River Indian Tribes)

Jacoby Ellsbury

American professional golfer

Rickie Fowler

captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942

Joe Kieyoomia

former women's UFC flyweight champion

Nicco Montaño

the last original Navajo code talker who served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

Chester Nez

geneticist and bioethicist known for promoting Indigenous data sovereignty and studying genetics within Indigenous communities

Krystal Tsosie

first full-blooded Native American in NASCAR

Cory Witherill

mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Aaron Yazzie

Navajo-Churro sheep

Navajo pueblitos

Navajo Nation

Long Walk of the Navajo

Navajoceratops

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ISBN

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LCCN

Pritzker, Barry M. (2000). A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  978-0-19-513877-1.

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Sandner, Donald (1991). . Rochester (VT): Healing Arts Press. ISBN 978-0-89281-434-3.

Navaho symbols of healing: a Jungian exploration of ritual, image, and medicine

Sides, Hampton (2006). Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (2nd ed.). Doubleday.  978-0-385-50777-6.

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Bailey, L. R. (1964). The Long Walk: A History of the Navaho Wars, 1846–1868.

Bighorse, Tiana (1990). Bighorse the Warrior. Ed. Noel Bennett, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Brugge, David M. (1968). Navajos in the Catholic Church Records of New Mexico 1694–1875. Window Rock, Arizona: Research Section, The Navajo Tribe.

Clarke, Dwight L. (1961). Stephen Watts Kearny: Soldier of the West. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

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Left Handed (1967) [1938]. Son of Old Man Hat. recorded by Walter Dyk. Lincoln, Nebraska: Bison Books & University of Nebraska Press.  67004921.

LCCN

Forbes, Jack D. (1960). Apache, Navajo and Spaniard. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.  60013480.

LCCN

Hammond, George P. and Rey, Agapito (editors) (1940). Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540–1542. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Kelly, Lawrence (1970). Navajo Roundup Pruett Pub. Co., Colorado.

Linford, Laurence D. (2000). Navajo Places: History, Legend, Landscape. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.  978-0-87480-624-3

ISBN

McNitt, Frank (1972). Navajo Wars. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Plog, Stephen Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest. Thames and London, LTD, London, England, 1997.  0-500-27939-X.

ISBN

Roessel, Ruth (editor) (1973). Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press.

Roessel, Ruth, ed. (1974). Navajo Livestock Reduction: A National Disgrace. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press.  0-912586-18-4.

ISBN

Treglia, Gabriella. "Cultural Pluralism or Cultural Imposition? Examining the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Education Reforms during the Indian New Deal (1933–1945)." Journal of the Southwest 61.4 (2019): 821-862.

summary

Voyles, Traci Brynne (2015). Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Warren (January 27, 1875). . Daily Journal of Commerce (Kansas City, Missouri). p. 1 – via newspapers.com.

"The Navajoes.—The Party Returning from Washington and Who They Are.—About Gov. Arny and His Views of the Indian Question.—What Kind of People the Navajoes area and What Their Country"

Witherspoon, Gary (1977). Language and Art in the Navajo Universe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Witte, Daniel. Archived 2012-09-16 at the Wayback Machine

Removing Classrooms from the Battlefield: Liberty, Paternalism, and the Redemptive Promise of Educational Choice, 2008 BYU Law Review 377 The Navajo and Richard Henry Pratt

Zaballos, Nausica (2009). Le système de santé navajo. Paris: L'Harmattan.

official site

Navajo Nation

Navajo Tourism Department

Navajo people: history, culture, language, art

of Northern Colorado University with images of U.S. documents of treaties and reports 1846–1931

Middle Ground Project

by Washington Matthews, 1883 from Project Gutenberg

Navajo Silversmiths

Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine

Navajo Institute for Social Justice

Information on authentic Navajo Art, Rugs, Jewelry, and Crafts

Navajo Arts

Navajo expert, Doctor Sarah Davis, about the Navajo

The Navajo

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"Navajo Indians"