Navajo Nation

What molds a nation or group of people? As a member of the Navajo Nation, I’ve wondered how our history has impacted our nation. This research paper is a reflection of my curiosity. Throughout this paper I will explain how The Navajo Long Walk and The 1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo contributed in shaping what the Navajo Nation today. During the mid 19th century tensions with the Navajo, U.S. government, and white settlers were tense. The third wave of the Navajo Wars would ultimately lead to the U

described in my paper is the Navajos of the Navajo Nation, located in the northeastern part of Arizona, and their religious beliefs. Another topic that will be discussed is the ceremonies that are held among the Navajo tribe. The reason this topic interest me is due to my wife and hearing stories about ways she was taught as a child. Also how much of an impact it has had in her life due to family members taking part in these ceremonies. According to the history of the Navajo Tribe, the Holy People lived

have changed, but the spirit lives on. The Navajo are a Native American tribe that resides as their own nation in the southwestern part of the United States. The land consists of desert and mountains, so the Navajo had to learn many skills to live and adapt with the land. They gathered plants and nuts to eat, hunted animals for meat, and used the skins to keep warm at night as the temperature in the desert drops to below freezing. As times changed the Navajo adapted their skills to benefit them. They

people that we know presently as the Navajo went by. The Red Nation article “Considering a Navajo Name Change: Self-Identification, Land, and Liberation” by Majerle Lister states that “‘Navajo’ is not a Diné word or concept, despite its use as our [the Diné] official name for more than a hundred and fifty years.” This is a clear example of how settler colonialism has impacted the Navajo Nation. Settler colonialism has had an impact in the Peoplehood matrix of the Navajo from language and sacred history

Intake Form Critique The Navajo Nation Division of Social Services (NDSS) intake form is used by three agencies under the NDSS umbrella for various services including child welfare for reservation residents, Indian Child Welfare for ICWA/state collaboration, local and off reservation adoption, as well as clinical treatment services. The intake form was developed in 2011 with the intent to gather and report Adoption, Foster Care, Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS) data to the federal government and

Chapter four A Creation Story introduces the Senate Bill 1365 now revised into two laws ARS 15-341 and ARS 15-710, Albert Hale former Navajo Nation president and Arizona State Senator introduced Bill 1365 in 2004. His intentions behind SB 1365 was to eradicate the so called mutual respect between dominant society and Native Americans specifically Dine people. In order for respect to be reciprocal dominant society needs to know who we are as Dine people as well as our history, government, culture

Uranium Mining on The Navajo Nation Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation has had a negative impact on the land, the animals, and the people. Although it brought jobs to the surrounding communities, and made it possible for men to provide for their families, it also brought devastation that has haunted the people for the past fifty years. Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation began during the year 1948 when it was first discovered by a group of surveyors near a town called Cove, Arizona. That discovery

The Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the nation with a little over 300,000 members on the largest reservation. The Navajo nation today has dealt with the consequences of mining uranium, limited housing development on their land, and contaminated water resources. The Navajo reservation is about 17.2 million acres that provide many natural resources. The resources that are available to be mined are coal, uranium, oil, and natural gas. Coal, oil, uranium have been the foundation

Project Summary The Navajo Nation reservation covers parts of New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona making it the largest Native American Reservation in the country. However, this vast land has little infrastructure for moving the water supply from one area to another, coupled with a long-lasting drought diminishing water reserves and the contamination of some water sources from industrial mining, the Navajo Nation faces severe limited access to clean water (1). Without natural sources of clean water

Indigenous people of the United States have fought to have The Navajo Nation acknowledge as being sovereign which we have our own government, nation, culture, ability to tax, and etc. When the multicultural era happened instead of recognizing us as a sovereign nation we were looked upon as being beneath Western society. The Navajo Nation exerts their sovereignty by teaching and practicing our native language, using artifacts in our daily lives, and our stories. Native Americans need to make a change