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Title: Navajo Nation


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Navajo Nation
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Geography
  • 70,000 km² of land
  • largest reservation for Native Americans
  • stretches across the Colorado Plateau
  • covers parts of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico

3
History
  • 15th century arrived in the southwest as
    hunters and gatherers
  • influenced by the pueblos (agriculture, weaving)
  • 17th century
  • took sheep and horses from the Spanish

4
The Long Walk
  • resisted the Spanish for 300 years
  • defeated by the US in 1864
  • 8000 Navajos had to walk 500 km to a reservation
  • many died of starvation
  • after 4 years they were allowed to return to
    their homeland

Chief Manuelito
5
Code talkers
  • Navajo soldiers during the WW II
  • used the Navajo language as code
  • the only code the Japanese could not crack

6
Navajo Beliefs
  • this is one of four worlds, the glittering world
  • Earth People and Holy People live in harmony with
    Mother Earth and Father Sky
  • holy number 4
  • 4 first clans
  • 4 mountains

7
Today
  • population 250.000
  • both - traditional and modern way of life
  • own government
  • coal mining
  • tourist attractions
  • art and craft

8
Sources
  • http//wikipedia.org
  • http//www.navajo.org
  • Photos
  • History, The long Walk
  • http//photoswest.org/
  • History of the American West, 1860-1920
    Photographs from the Collection of the Denver
    Public Library
  • Today
  • http//www.wissen.swr.de/sf/begleit/bg0008/us06.ht
    m
  • Code talkers
  • http//bingaman.senate.gov/code_talkers/men/127-MN
    -69889-B/127-mn-69889-b.html
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