Navajo Tribe Research Paper

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The Navajo creation involves four worlds. In the first world the First Man and the First Woman became known. In the second world it is much like the story of the Garden of Eden in the bible. The First Man and First Woman get banished to the third world where they begin to procreate. Finally in the fourth world they decide to settle down with help of the wind God. The Navajo people are the largest recognized tribe in the Southwestern United States. This tribe consists of 300,048 enrolled tribal members as of 2011. The Navajo Indians are also known as Dine, meaning “the people”.

The Navajo tribe extends into the states of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. The reservation that the Navajo Indians live on, spans over 14.000 square miles, lying between Arizona and New Mexico. It is a very dry region which makes it very challenging to live in. The Navajo Tribe would use trees, logs, mud, and soil as their natural resources. The Navajoland is also endowed with reserves of oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium.

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n 1864 after a war, the Navajo crops, homes, equipment, and livestock were destroyed. U.S Army Colonel Kit Carson had 8,000 Navajo confined to the Bosque Redundo. Manuelito and 4,000 of his people refused to surrender and went off into the mountains and waged guerrilla warfare. Carson continued killing off horses and wild came and destroying all Navajo property. Ny 1866 Manuelito and his people were beginning to starve and decided to surrender. They were then taken to the very arid reservation Bosque Redundo. The conditions were so terrible that manuelito and his people were permitted to travel to Washington D.C. to petition the government for a new reservation. Manuelito pleaded his cause so well that they were given a reservation to live by autumn. This reservation was located in their traditional

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