Navajo 47269 224610147 2008-07-09T17:20:58Z Useight 2910303 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/71.232.203.64|71.232.203.64]] (using [[WP:HG|Huggle]]) {{Otheruses}} [[Image:Navajo (man) - guide in Monument Valley.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Navajo guide for tourists in Monument Valley]] '''Navajo''' (sometimes written ''Navaho''), or '''Diné''', (meaning ''The People'' in [[Navajo language|Navajo]]) refers or relates to the '''[[Navajo people]]''', currently the second largest [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe in the United States, with 298,197 people claiming to be full or partial Navajo in the 2000 [[United States Census|U.S. census]].<ref name=Census_2002>{{cite web | title = The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2000 | work = Census 2000 Brief| url = http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-15.pdf | date = 2002-02-01 |accessdate = 2007-03-10}}</ref> The name Navajo likely originated from the Spanish, <ref>Hoezee, S. and C. Meehan: <i>Flourishing in the Land</i>, page 5. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996</ref> who may have taken the name from the Tewa language's original word, "navahu" meaning ‘fields adjoining an arroyo.’<ref>"Navajo" <i>New Oxford American Dicionary</i> Apple Computer, 2005.</ref> The '''[[Navajo Nation|Navajo Nation's]]''' reservation encompasses the [[Four Corners (United States)|Four Corners region]] of northern Arizona, southern Utah, and northern New Mexico, over 16 million acres (65,000 km²). The term ''Navajo'' also refers to the '''[[Navajo language]]'''. == References == <references/> == See also == * [[Code talkers]] * [[Dine College]] * [[Dinetah]] * [[Hogan]] * [[Long Walk of the Navajo]] * [[Mohave]] * [[Navajo language]] * [[Navajo music]] * [[Navajo mythology]] * [[Navajo Nation]] * [[Navajo people]] * [[Navajo Rug]] * [[Navajo Reservation]] * [[Navajo Tribal Council]] * [[Navajo Tribal Police]] or Navajo Nation Police * [[Skin-walker (mythology)]] * [[Navajo Livestock Reduction]] {{Navajo Nation}} [[Category:Native American tribes]] [[Category:Navajo tribe]] [[de:Navajo]] [[fa:ناواهو]] [[fr:Navajo]] [[nl:Navajo]]