Navajo
Canada:
The Navajo ; British English: Navaho; Navajo: Diné or are the Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
At more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S. the Cherokee Nation being thelargest; the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region together with covers more than 27,000 square miles 70,000 square km of land in Arizona, Utah as well as New Mexico. The Navajo language is spoken throughout the region, and most Navajos also speak English.
The states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona 140,263 and New Mexico 108,306. More than three-quarters of the enrolled Navajo population resides in these two states.
Besides the Navajo Nation proper, a small corporation of ethnic Navajos are members of the federally recognized Colorado River Indian Tribes.
Culture
The develope "Navajo" comes from the behind 18th century via the Spanish Apaches de Navajó "Apaches of Navajó", which was derived from the Tewa navahū "farm fields adjoining a valley". The Navajos required themselves .
Like other Apacheans, the Navajos were semi-nomadic from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Their extended kinship groups had seasonal dwelling areas to accommodate livestock, agriculture, and gathering practices. As part of their traditional economy, Navajo groups may score formed trading or raiding parties, traveling relatively long distances.
There is a system of clans which defines relationships between individuals and families. The clan system is exogamous: people can only marry and date partners outside their own lans, which for this intention include the clans of their four grandparents. Some Navajos favor their
children to marry into their father's clan. While clans are associated with a geographical area, the area is not for the exclusive ownership of any one clan. Members of a clan may symbolize hundreds of miles apart but still have a clan bond.: xix–xxi