NAVAJO Definition & Meaning

Navajo

or ��·��·��

[ nav-uh-hoh, nah-vuh- ]

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noun

plural Navajos, Navajoes, (especially collectively) Navajo

Also called �پ��é. a member of the most populous nation of the southern division of Athabascan Native Americans, located in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and now constituting the largest tribal group in the United States.
the Athabascan language of the Navajo.

adjective

Also . of, relating to, or characteristic of the Navajo, their language, or their culture:
a Navajo blanket.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Navajo¹

First recorded in 1800–10; from American Spanish Apaches de Nabajú “Apaches of Nabajú” (Navajo and several Apachean languages are mutually intelligible), originally a place name applied to the Largo Canyon region of the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, from Tewa navahu “large arroyo with cultivated fields”; �پ��é ( def )

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There were Navajo rugs; custom, Western-style Monterey couches and chairs; and hundreds of books, including signed first-editions by Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller and Harry Houdini.

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“There’s a lot at stake for Joe,” said McClarnon, whose Navajo police lieutenant contends with marital discord, childhood trauma and a pesky FBI investigation.

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Now in its third season, “Dark Winds” follows Leaphorn and a couple of his current and former officers as they solve crimes and maintain order in the Navajo Nation.

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“Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee airmen, the Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others,” Ullyot stated.

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It was while on his way to photograph the Navajo native Americans in Arizona that he saw the "strange" and drunken sight that has been used by the Welsh rockers for their latest release.

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