Among them: a very early Navajo autobiography and a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's daughter.
One of the most fascinating chapters in wartime cryptography is the story of the Navajo code-talkers.
The Navajo president, Joe Shirley, and the tribe's elected governing council overwhelmingly favour the facility.
So a good Navajo blanket design would be one that showed symmetry and balance.
Ernest Tsosie of the Navajo comedy duo, James and Ernie, is looking forward to seeing the movie.
Depp was inquisitive about the Navajo language during filming, and the tribal president gave him a Pendleton blanket.
She wrote, too, about the Navajo Indians, a group she studied with her husband, Walter Dyk, an anthropologist.
One of its airplanes, a twin-engine Piper Navajo, spent six weeks this summer flying back and forth over eastern Kansas.
Members of a Navajo tribe and an entire family, tiny kids included, packed into a van to follow one runner.
Still, on major store shelves, Native fashion is still most likely to be "Navajo-inspired" prints, feathered headdresses or fake turquoise jewelry.
We had us a case here where one of your Navajo curing ceremonials could have done Nez more good than we did.
No. 25, the portion of the Navajo reservation in Cibola County, N.
Monument Valley has been part of the Navajo Nation since the 1800s.
Shiprock is a roadside town and administrative centre in the Navajo reservation.
On top of this, almost a tenth of the population is Indian, mostly Navajo, the largest proportion in the country after Alaska.
Paulson Chaco is Director of the Navajo Division of Transportation occupying a cabinet level position to the President of the Navajo Nation.
Last week I joined Navajo Nation leaders and Department of Justice officials in Tuba City, Arizona for the groundbreaking of a new corrections facility.
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And because of this legislation, Frank, along with 80, 000 others in the Navajo Nation, will have access to clean running water for the very first time.
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Realizing that the Navajo tongue had no link to any Asian or European language, the American military recruited 420 Indians to convey messages in the Pacific.
This spring, the designer offered playful monkeys climbing up the front of cotton dresses, and bright, digitized Navajo patterns on pant sets, cotton sweaters and full-skirted frocks.
It will be a 144, 000 square foot complex, which will include a corrections facility, law enforcement administrative offices, and expanded court facilities for the Navajo Nation Department of Corrections.
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Sitting in Santa Fe's remarkably informal Roundhouse, as the state capitol is nicknamed in homage to old Navajo hogans, she describes her conversion to Republicanism as a Damascene moment.
Starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, it relates how a unit of Navajo field-communications soldiers uses a derivative of their Native American language to encrypt radio messages in the Pacific Theater.
Because residents in 1940 answered census takers' questions, the records released last week will provide a glimpse of Navajo tribal lands on the eve of the uranium boom, which transformed the landscape.
She also discussed her personal experiences as a Native American and the ways her life has been affected by federal law and policy, and how the law influenced her understanding of Navajo culture.
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Some of the scenes are filmed in Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation, with trains curving around the spires that Navajos believe are petrified deities, and Depp and co-star Armie Hammer looking out beyond the cliffs.
So he describes Grey's visits to Mormon settlements, his identification with the Navajo cause and his fishing expeditions which, to judge from some rather risible photographs, resulted in the occasional enormous catch, though producing little of literary value.
"The lookbook is a brilliant indigenous response to the rip-offs being marketed in mainstream media, " said Valerie Taliman, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and West Coast editor of Indian Country Today Media Network, the largest Native-operated media organization in the country.
Legends about its origin vary from it being a flying rock that brought the Navajo people to this area, to being the home of two huge bird monsters who occasionally swoop down from the sky and feast upon any Natives they find below.
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