Navajo music is music made by the Navajos, mostly hailing from the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States and the territory of the Navajo...
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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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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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the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo (Spanish: larga caminata del navajo), was the deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people...
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and drum beats of the Navajo and Apache. In Santa Fe de Nuevo México, the Hispanos of New Mexico brought Christian liturgical music, the violin, and the...
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to: Navajo Nation, the governmental entity of the Navajo people Navajo language, spoken in the Southwestern United States Navajo, New Mexico Navajo, San...
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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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areas of greatest musical complexity: the Northwest Coast, Pueblo music, and Navajo music. Evidence of influences between the Northwest Coast and Mexico...
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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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Radmilla Cody (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
a Navajo model, singer, and anti-domestic violence activist who was the 46th Miss Navajo from 1997 to 1998. She was the first biracial Miss Navajo and...
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Ethnomusicology (redirect from Non-Western music)
of Navajo music, particularly the music of the Enemy Way ceremony. In it, McAllester details the procedures of the ceremony, as well as the music itself...
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The Navajo song ceremonial complex is a spiritual practice used by certain Navajo ceremonial people to restore and maintain balance and harmony in the...
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hosts two music festivals, the Flagstaff Folk Festival and the Flagstaff Music Festival. Native American flautist R. Carlos Nakai, of Navajo/Ute origin...
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Window Rock, Arizona (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
city Capital of the Navajo Nation | image_skyline = Tségháhoodzání, the "Window Rock" Navajo Nation Council Chamber WWII Navajo Code Talker Memorial...
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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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Raven Chacon (category Navajo artists)
Fort Defiance, Arizona within the Navajo Nation, Chacon became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his Voiceless Mass in 2022...
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Navajo Blues is a 1996 American crime-action film produced and directed by Joey Travolta and starring Steven Bauer, Irene Bedard and Charlotte Lewis. A...
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2024. Romero, Simon; Zehbrauskas, Adriana (November 30, 2019). "Navajo Country Music Shatters 'Cowboys and Indians' Stereotypes". The New York Times....
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Shiprock, New Mexico (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
Shiprock (Navajo: Naatʼáanii Nééz) is an unincorporated community on the Navajo reservation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The population...
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Geraldine Keams (category Navajo Nation people)
Geraldine Keams (born August 19, 1951) is a Native American (Navajo Nation) actress. She is best known for her work in numerous television series, often...
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29, 2023]. "Mutilated Tyrant: a conversation about the Navajo black metal scene". Inferno Music Conference. Inferno Metal Festival. Lewry, Fraser (September...
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Windtalkers (category Navajo code talkers)
Christian Slater. It is based on the real story of code talkers from the Navajo nation during World War II. The film was theatrically released in the United...
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Tuba City, Arizona (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
Tuba City (Navajo: Tó Naneesdizí) is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Coconino County, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation, United States...
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Chinle, Arizona (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
Chinle (Navajo: Chíńlį́) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The name in Navajo means 'flowing out' and is a reference...
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Navajo is a 1952 American fictional drama film directed by Norman Foster. It was nominated for two Academy Awards: for Best Documentary Feature (although...
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Peyote song (redirect from Peyote music)
taking of peyote. Peyote songs began with the blend of the Ute music style with Navajo singing. Ed Tiendle Yeahquo composed over 120 peyote songs, many...
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types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown...
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Billy Luther (category Navajo people)
He belongs to the Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo tribes. He is known for his movies Frybread Face and Me (2023) and Miss Navajo (2007), and the 2022...
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Klee Benally (section Music)
was an Indigenous activist, author, musician, and environmentalist from Navajo Nation. Benally was born in Black Mesa, Arizona to Jones and Berta Benally...
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Winslow, Arizona (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
Winslow (Navajo: Béésh Sinil) is a city in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population of the city is 9,005. It...
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