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Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh. The Navajo Indians strung glimmering turquoise rocks on the strings of the yucca plant at their reservation in the desert. Women quietly wove beautiful pieces of string to make many interesting decorations and objects. Men hunted for animals out in the steaming hot desert. Even though there were no grocery stores long ago, Navajo Indians still survived using nature to help them and took care of it in return.

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All Indians had weapons, but the Navajo weapons were the best. Also the Navajo had a good relationship with other tribes. The Navajo used a bow and arrow as one of their weapons. During the war they used spears or they launched their bow and arrow. They found sticks and attached them to a rock with deer skin to hit people with. They used knives to spear open or kill an animal. The Navajo was once a part of the Apache tribe. Then the Navajo split up and the Apache walked their separate ways to start a new tribe.

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All Indians have traditions, but the Navajo have unique traditions that have been passed down. Through many generations one of the Navajo legends is a way of thinking or acting. Also educators taught weaving and other creative crafts in their schools. Healers used a traditional methods to help the sick get better. They believe that wisdom  of the Navajo past would help them meet the challenges of the future. The Navajo  thought that the world was alive and they should treat it with respect. Their goal was to keep the world around them in perfect order. The Navajo world for this perfect order is called the hozoh .

One of the other traditions is to weave blankets and rugs.

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The Indians wore many different clothes, but the Navajo would suit themselves in  many different types animal skin. Usually the men wore breech cloths made of rabbit or deer skin. The girls or women wore skirts made of woven yucca fiber. Also they would put on ponchos and cloaks of rabbit fur when the weather was cold. The women and men would often outfit themselves with turquoise jewelry. When they had shoes they costumed themselves with moccasins. After sheep were introduced they would slip on poncho style shirts and wool.

The Navajo would wear shoes made out of animal skin.

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Navajo Indians farmed and hunted in the summer so they would have a variety of food in the winter. When they farmed they would grow corn, beans, and squash. Most of the time women would do this. Using mashed up corn they were able to make corn bread. Sometime women would play a game where they would gather nuts that they would roast. They also would dry and roast pears. Many men hunted food such as deer antelope and rabbits. The also traded with the Spanish to get sheep to eat and make clothing.

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Navajo Indians did spend a lot of time worshipping nature, but they also had time for fun and games. One of Navajo Indians favorite game was a game using a moccasin. First two pairs of shoes were buried in front of each team. then a blanket would be held up and a ball was hidden in one of these shoes. The players must guess where the ball is hidden.  Another one of their favorites was a game where Navajo Indians would get six cups and hide a turquoise rock under and the players must guess were it was hidden. Navajo Indians also enjoyed card games and horse racing. One their favorite activities to do was making sand paintings. Sometimes they used these sand paintings to make a sick person better. The medicine man would start by telling people what to do in the ceremony. Then the sick person would sit on the sand painting and would hope it would work. Another one of their favorites was weaving. They would start by dying yucca fibers with red and blue berries and then they would start to weave. h

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to make a sick person better.Taylor# 18

Many tribes had legends about how they got their name and how different animals, plants and natural elements came to be. One of the favorites was Trickster Coyote Killing a giant.  It tells about a coyote killing a giant. Then there is also Spider Women and Spider man which is about how weaving was brought to the Navajo nation and how it is still used today.  Glacier Song of the Horses talks about a sun’s god walking across the heavens. At the Rainbows End tells about when the sun goddess was created and how the sun helps us today. Navajo Indians were really called the Dine, only their enemies called them Navajo.

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The Navajo people’s interesting facts tell about their way of life. They called themselves the Dine or “ The people.”  The Navajo were Nomads, moving around from place to place to find food. The Navajo called the fourth world, the Dinetah. The Dinetah is the glittering world, also known as the Navajo land. The Navajo mothers would carry their babies in a cradle board to keep them nearby. The Navajo obtained sheep in the 1500s from the Spanish. The sheep were an important part of their lives because their wool helped the Indians make rugs and the meat was used for food. The Navajo’s favorite trading partners were the Pueblo tribes, but they also fought against each other in wars.  All Navajo Indians believed that turquoise was part of the sky. Sometimes the Navajo would steel or spy on other tribes to get what they needed.

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Without a doubt, the Navajo Indians protected nature with all their hearts, appreciating what they had to use from it to survive during the 1800’s in the Colorado landscape. The Navajo Indian way of worshiping nature leaves the reader pondering over what the white men did to them? Were they ever in moments where they were out of food? Did they like to be nomadic or would they rather stay in the same place? Well the readers must decide on these questions and how this tribe impacted others that lived around it.

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