NAVAHO

The Navahos (or Navajo) I/you/they are a tribe of Indians of America, of language Athapasca, once appropriated in Canada western north, that in 1300 verse Southwest emigrated. They are called Dineh the People. The Navahos terrorized the sedentary agricultural tribes that they lived their new territory to Southwest. The Pueblos apachus called them, that means " hostile-foreigners "; from this it derived the locution, mixed of language tewa and Spaniard, "Apaches de Nabahu", that had contracted in " Navaho " to her long one. The Navahos acquired a lot of cultural habits of their near Pueblo as the dances with masks (yebichai), him to weave baskets and the to model china. You/they acquired from the Spaniards the art of the silverware. Toward half the nineteenth century they started to build jewels and to plot covers; their simple covers of the heads have evolved and today they are notes as covered Navahos. Currently the Navahos count around 130.000 individuals, and they are the biggest tribe of the United States. They live in a wide reserve for 200 miles in the New Mexico and in the Arizona, from the zone of Gallup actually to the Gran Bretagna Canyon, rich of natural wonder as the Monument Valley, the Canyon de Chelly and coal layers and oil. The women still wear their traditional custom, composed by blouses of velvet long colored skirts that go down to the ankles and silver necklaces and turquoise actually. Their traditional house is the hogan, a low conic structure of poles covered of earth and mud, with an opening for the smoke on the top. On their territory farms, big herds of sheep and some herd of cattle can be seen. You/he/she can be said that, to comparison of the others, the nation Navaho is rich.