An in-depth guide to the Navajo Nation (Diné)—origins, Long Walk, Code Talkers, language, government, and life today, with respectful travel tips.

The Navajo, or Diné, are one of the largest Indigenous nations in the United States, with more than 399,000 enrolled citizens. Their ancestral homeland, Dinétah, is centered in the Four Corners region and marked by four sacred mountains. This homeland shapes every part of the history of the Navajo and their identity today.

The Navajo[a] are an Indigenous People of the Southwestern United States. Their language is Navajo (Navajo: Diné bizaad), a Southern Athabascan language. The states with the largest Diné populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,305). More than three-quarters of the Diné population resides in these two states. [6] The overwhelming majority of Diné are enrolled in the Navajo ...

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The Navajo people are an Indigenous North American people who settled in the Southwest of what is now the United States some time before European contact. Nearly 425,000 Americans claimed at least partial Navajo (self-name Diné) descent in the 2020 U.S. census, with more than 315,000 solely claiming Navajo descent. The Navajo speak an Apachean language which is classified in the Athabaskan ...