#Navajos lived too far from the colonists, who were concentrated in the upper Rio Grande Valley, to be subjected to the disruption of their lives that the #Pueblos suffered at the hands of the #Spanish
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#Navajos maintain strong ties with relatives, even when they leave the reservation
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#Navajos are finding ways to use some changes to support traditional culture, such as the adult education program at #Navajo Community College, which assists in teaching the skills that new #Navajo medicine men must acquire in order to serve their communities
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#Navajos of the mid-1990s were still adjusting the boundaries of their nation, especially by trading land in an attempt to create contiguous blocks in an area called the Checkerboard, which lies along the eastern boundary of the #Navajo Nation
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#Navajos and #Apaches, as members of the Athapaskan language family, are generally believed to have been among the last peoples to have crossed the land bridge from Siberia to Alaska thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age.
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The suicide rate among #Navajos is 30 % higher than the national average.
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Modern #Navajos remain in their ancestral homelands in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
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By 1973 a study released by the #Navajo Office of Program Development found that only 20,000 people were employed on the reservation, of which 71 % were #Navajos
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#Navajos have been detained, harassed by #ICE. Many are depending on tribal IDs to show citizenship www.kjzz.org/indigenous-a...
ICE stopping actual real native Americans....
Has America just given in to the #felon? Why are we letting this govt. destroy us?
So critical to #resist
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The #Navajos have their own parks and recreation department, fish and wildlife department, police department, educational programs, and health service, as well as many other jobs in tribal government and administration.
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It is not known, and will probably never be known, exactly when the #Navajos and #Apaches (Southwestern Athapaskans) began migrating from the far north to the Southwest or what route they took.
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The #Navajo Nation is the largest reservation-based #Indian nation within the United States, both in land area and population. More than 200,000 #Navajos live on the 24,000 square miles of the reservation
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Crownpoint is the home of the Eastern #Navajo Agency, the #Navajo administrative headquarters for the Checkerboard. As recently as 1991 the #Navajos were still attempting to consolidate the Checkerboard, exchanging 20,000 acres in order to achieve 80,000 acres of consolidation.
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It is not known, and will probably never be known, exactly when the #Navajos and #Apaches (Southwestern Athapaskans) began migrating from the far north to the Southwest or what route they took.
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In the early nineteenth century, #Navajos lived in what is now New Mexico in an area that was under #Spanish colonial rule.
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At times the #Navajos were allied with the #Spanish against other #Indians, principally the Utes; other times the #Spanish joined forces with the Utes and fought the #Navajos.
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It is not uncommon for #Navajos working in urban centers to send money home to relatives.
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It is not known, and will probably never be known, exactly when the #Navajos and #Apaches (Southwestern Athapaskans) began migrating from the far north to the Southwest or what route they took.
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It is not uncommon for #Navajos working in urban centers to send money home to relatives.
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For the #Navajos, the seminal event was the discovery of oil on the reservation in 1921, after which the United States desired some centralized governmental authority for the #Navajos for the purpose of executing oil leases, largely for the benefit of non-#Navajos.
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In keeping with the recent trend throughout the United States, #Navajos are now administering many of their own health care facilities, taking over their operation from the Public Health Service.
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In 1941 an anthropologist interviewed an entire community of several hundred #Navajos and could not find even one adult over the age of 35 who had not received traditional medical care from a "singer," a #Navajo medicine man called a Hataali.
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Exactly when the #Apaches and the #Navajos began their migration southward is not known, but it is clear that they had not arrived in the southwest before the end of the 14th century
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In 1936 the Native American church began to spread to the south into the #Navajo Nation, and it grew strong among the #Navajos in the 1940s
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The suicide rate among #Navajos is 30 % higher than the national average.
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Allowing indigenous people to vote required a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court ruling to force #Apache County, Arizona, where the population was 70 % #Navajo, to allow #Navajos to serve on its board of supervisors
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When Spaniards first encountered the #Apaches and #Navajos in the 16th century, they could not tell them apart and referred to them as “#Apaches de #Navajo”
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When the #Navajos returned to their homeland from the Bosque Redondo in 1869, the government issued them 1,000 goats and 14,000 sheep to begin replacing the herds that the U.S. Army and New Mexico militia had either slaughtered or confiscated.
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