The Navajo[a] or Diné, are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 [1] 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.
This site is dedicated to keeping alive the culture, traditions, and beliefs of the Diné (Navajo People) also referred to as Navajo "Indians" a name not used or liked by the People. The Navajo prefer to be called the "Diné" meaning “The People” or “Children of the Holy People”.
Diné College is a public tribal land-grant college in Tsaile, Arizona, serving the 27,000-square-mile (70,000 km2) Navajo Nation. It offers associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, and certificates.
2012年2月29日 · You can also say Dine’é to refer to the Navajo Nation, or to the Navajo people as a tribe or group rather than as an individual. Apart from using Diné as a word for Navajo, there is a more general diné that can be used to describe other groups of people.
Like many Native Nations, the Navajo (Diné) signed treaties as well as fought against American efforts to create pathways from the East to California. Despite all their efforts, the Navajo (Diné) people were removed from their homelands by the United States government in the 1860s. However, they maintained an unflinching resolve to return home.
Navajo or Navaho (/ ˈnævəhoʊ, ˈnɑːvə -/ NAV-ə-hoh, NAH-və-; [2] Navajo: Diné bizaad [tìnépìz̥ɑ̀ːt] or Naabeehó bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family (proposed only), as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North America.
The Navajo language, also known as Diné Bizaad, is spoken by approximately 175,000 people in the United States and elsewhere (Gordon, 2005). Navajo is a language of the Apachean subgroup of the Athabaskan branch of the Na-Dené language family, along with Apache.