2  |
Title: Navajo
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
Navajo history: early migration from Alaska and Canada to encounters with the Spanish and war with the United States; concludes with an account of contemporary Navajo life.
Traditional Navajo, or Diné, stories tell that First Man, First Woman, the Holy People, and all the animals had to pass through three different worlds before emerging into the Fourth or Glittering World. Here, the People saw four rivers bounded by f...
Show Keywords: 1100s; 1300s; 1500s; 1600s; 1680s; 1800s; 1840s; 1860s; 1864; 1890s; 1920s; Alaska; alliance; Americans; animals; anthropologists; Apaches; Arizona; armor; Athapaskans; balance; bands; barters; baskets; blessing; Bosque Redondo; boundary; branches; Canada; Canyon de Chelly; canyons; captives; Carson, Colonel Kit; cattle; Cebolleta; centuries; coals; code talkers; colonialism; Colorado; Comanches; communities; corn; corn pollen; crops; crowns; cultures; dances; descendants; destruction; dies; Dinétah; droughts; encounters; families; farmers; farming; Farmington; farms; fights; First Man; First Woman; flocks; food; Fort Sumner; fourth world; friends; front lines; game; gas; gather; goats; government; ground; headmen; herds; hogans; holy people; home; homelands; Hopi; horses; hunts; indigenous people; Jemez; jewelry; Kearny, Stephen; languages; laugh; life road; livestock; Long Walk; medicine man; mesas; Mescalero Apaches; migration; miles; millions; Mother Earth; Mount Taylor; mountains; myths; Navajos; New Mexicans; New Mexico; nomads; oil; origin stories; paintings; pastures; peace; plants; ponies; pottery; prayers; prisons; protect; Pueblo Indians; Pueblo Revolt; raids; rains; ranches; revolt; riders; Rio Grande; Rio Pecos; rituals; rivers; sacred; sacred mountains; sacred sites; Santa Fe; settlers; sheep; Sherman, William Tecumseh, General; Shipapu; silver; silversmiths; smallpox; soldiers; songs; south; Southwest; Southwest Crossroads Spotlight; Spanish; starvation; stores; strongholds; suffering; sun; survivors; third world; tools; towns; trade; trading posts; traditions; treaty; turquoise; uranium; US Army; Utah; Utes; Vargas, Don Diego de; villages; warriors; weapons; weaving; west; white men; World War II; years |
