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.

A 19th-century hogan Navajo spinning and weaving on vertical loom The Navajo are speakers of a Na-Dené Southern Athabaskan language which they call Diné bizaad (lit. 'People's language'). The term Navajo comes from Spanish missionaries and historians who referred to the Pueblo Indians through this term, although they referred to themselves as the Diné, meaning ' (the) people'. [10] The ...

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 ...

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