Navajo

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The Navajo are the second largest Native North American group. They currently live mostly in northwestern New Mexico, northeastern Arizona, and southeastern Utah. The Navajo language belongs to the Apachean branch of the Athapaskan family. Ancestors of the Navajo are thought to have migrated to the Southwest within the last one thousand years. Modern Navajo culture exhibits a unique blend of Athapaskan, Puebloan, Mexican, and Anglo-American influences. Every Navajo belongs to one of sixty-four matrilineal clans. Navajo mythology is epitomized in the curing ceremony called the Blessing Way.

Identifier

Region

• North America

Subregion

• Southwest and Basin

Subsistence Type

• agro-pastoralists

Samples

• EA

Countries

• United States

External Links

• Navajo (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Navajo (Western) (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE
• Navajo (Eastern) (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE