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Navajo (sometimes written Navaho), or Diné, (meaning The People in Navajo) refers or relates to the Navajo people, currently the secon largest Native American tribe in the United States, with 298,197 people claiming to be full or partial Navajo in the 2000 U.S. census.

Trivia about navajo

  • In 2005, at New Mexico State, Cuyler Frank made history by being the first to call a football game in this language
  • The Anasazi, a word from this Indian language for "ancient ones", lived in what's now the 4 Corners area
  • The people of this largest U.S. Indian tribe call themselves Dine, which means "the people"
  • During World War II, some 400 members of this Southwest tribe served as "code talkers" in the U.S. Marine Corps
  • A film on this Indian tribe's WWII code talkers won an Emmy Award in 1996
  • Arizona's Canyon De Chelly National Monument lies within this Indian reservation
  • With over 15 million acres, this American Indian tribe has the largest reservation in the U.S.
  • As the Cherokee history includes the "Trail of Tears", this Southwest tribe has the "Long Walk"
  • To add a southwestern touch, furnish a room with the rug seen here, named for this second most populous Indian tribe
  • This reservation has over 150,000 people
  • The most commonly spoken Native American language is this one famously used by "code talkers" in World War II
  • They call themselves the Dine; since their language has no "V", they found this name unpronounceable
  • A G.I. Joe introduced in 2000 is supposed to be one of these Native Americans who were code talkers in WWII
  • The Southwest's largest Indian tribe, it's noted for its sand painting, a part of the tribe's healing ceremonies
  • The use of this Indian language as a secret code during WWII is covered in the film "Windtalkers"

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