• The Navajo Times – known during the early 1980s as Navajo Times Today – is a newspaper created by the Navajo Tribal Council in 1959; in 1982 it was the...
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    The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo), also known as Navajoland, is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies...
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    Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,495 enrolled tribal members as of 2021[update], the Navajo Nation...
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    The Navajo Nation Police (formerly known as the Navajo Tribal Police) is the law enforcement agency on the Navajo Nation in the Southwestern United States...
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  • Dark Winds (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
    indicating "universal acclaim". The Navajo Times criticized the series for lacking authenticity in its representation of Navajo people and language. Series director...
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    The Navajo Nation Council (Navajo: Béésh bąąh dah siʼání) is the Legislative Branch of the Navajo Nation government. The council meets four times per...
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    Navajo or Navaho (/ˈnævəhoʊ, ˈnɑːvə-/ NAV-ə-hoh, NAH-və-; Navajo: Diné bizaad [tìnépìz̥ɑ̀ːt] or Naabeehó bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan...
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    Miss Navajo Nation is a pageant that has been held annually on the Navajo Nation, United States, since 1952. The first Miss Navajo was Beulah Melvin Allen...
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  • Four Sacred Mountains of the Navajo are the four mountains along the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. According to Navajo belief, each mountain is assigned...
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    Navajo County (Navajo: Tʼiisyaakin Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo) is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population...
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    Buu Nygren (category Presidents of the Navajo Nation)
    Van Nygren (born December 25, 1986) is a Navajo politician currently serving as the 10th President of the Navajo Nation. Nygren-Montoya received 34,890...
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    Navajo Mountain (Navajo: Naatsisʼáán meaning "Earth Head") is a peak in San Juan County, Utah, with its southern flank extending into Coconino County...
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    reported to have reached the Navajo Nation. The virus then spread rapidly through the Navajo Nation to the point that the Navajo, in 2020, had a higher per...
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    The President of the Navajo Nation is the Executive Branch of the Navajo Nation. The office succeeded the Tribal Chairman, being created in 1991 during...
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  • This is a List of Miss Navajo titleholders. The first Miss Navajo was in 1953. "Miss Navajo Council, Inc". History. Archived from the original on 2013-07-16...
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    Jonathan Nez (category Presidents of the Navajo Nation)
    a Navajo politician who served as the 9th President of the Navajo Nation from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as Vice President and as a Navajo Nation...
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    Code talker (redirect from Navajo code)
    formally developed based on the languages of the Comanche, Hopi, Meskwaki, and Navajo peoples. They used words from their languages for each letter of the English...
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  • This is a list of Chapters of the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation is divided up geographically into Chapters which are similar in function to municipalities...
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  • Richelle Montoya (category Vice presidents of the Navajo Nation)
    is the 11th vice president of the Navajo Nation. She is the first woman elected to the executive office of Navajo Nation. Montoya is from Torreon, Sandoval...
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    The term Navajo Wars covers at least three distinct periods of conflict in the American West: the Navajo against the Spanish (late 16th century through...
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    term Chairman of the Navajo Nation. MacDonald was born in Arizona, U.S. and served the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II as a Navajo Code Talker. He was...
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    Crystalyne Curley (category Speakers of the Navajo Nation Council)
    the 11th speaker of the Navajo Nation Council since 2023. She is the first woman to hold the position. Curley was Miss Navajo from 2011 to 2012. Curley...
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    A chapter is the most local form of government on the Navajo Nation. The Nation is broken into five agencies. Each agency contains chapters; currently...
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  • understanding of the Navajo". Editha L. Watson in The Navajo Times likewise praised Loh for his sensitivity toward the Navajo people and his storytelling...
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  • Navajo Joe is a 1966 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Burt Reynolds as the titular Navajo Indian who opposes a group of...
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    Joe Shirley Jr. (category Members of the Navajo Nation Council)
    Shirley Jr. (born December 4, 1947) is a Navajo politician who is the only two-term President of the Navajo Nation. He served as president from 2003 to...
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    mining and the Navajo people began in 1944 in northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. In the 1950s, the Navajo Nation was situated...
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  • American writer Tony Hillerman, the seventh in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, published in 1986. The film version, Skinwalkers,...
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    within the Navajo Nation which transported coal 78 miles (126 km) from the Peabody Energy Kayenta Mine near Kayenta, Arizona to the Navajo Generating...
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  • The Navajo Rangers (formed 1957) is an organization of the Navajo Nation in the Southwestern United States, which maintains and protects the tribal nation's...
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