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Die Navajos sind der zweitgrößte Indianerstamm der USA. Sie leben zwischen den vier Bergen, die ihnen heilig sind in den Bundessaaten Arizona, Utah und New Mexico. Die Navajos leben nicht in Tipis, sie hatten schon immer feste Häuser, sogenannte Hogans.
Sie gehört daher zu den drei großen regionalen Sprachgruppen der Athapaskischen Sprachfamilie und zusammen mit dem Tlingit zu den sogenannten Na-Dené-Sprachen. Sie wird im Südwesten der Vereinigten Staaten, hauptsächlich in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah und Colorado von den Navajo (Diné / Naabeehó) gesprochen.
Where did the Navajo come from?
Navajo History – Long before the theory of the ‘land bridge from Asia to North America across the Bering Strait’, Navajo elders told their own story about their own origin. The Navajo (DINE’) creation is the story of their origin through a series of emergences through a series of different colored worlds.
Who was the second Chief of the Navajo Nation?
He signed a treaty with two Navajo leaders: Mariano Martinez as Head Chief and Chapitone as Second Chief. The treaty acknowledged the transfer of jurisdiction from the United Mexican States to the United States.
The language’s orthography, which was developed in the late 1930s after a series of prior attempts, is based on the Latin script. Most Navajo vocabulary is Athabaskan in origin, as the language has been conservative with loanwords since its early stages.
It is estimated that the Apachean linguistic groups separated and became established as distinct societies, of which the Navajo were one, somewhere between 1300 and 1525. As a member of the Western Apachean group, Navajo’s closest relative is the Mescalero-Chiricahua language.