The original #Navajo Reservation in 1868 encompassed only a small portion of the ancestral #Navajo rangelands. The size of the reservation tripled between 1868 and the mid-1930s by 14 additions of blocks of land from 1878 to 1934.

The premier annual events open to visitors are the #Navajo Fairs. One of the largest is the Northern #Navajo Fair, ordinarily held on the first weekend in October, at Shiprock, New Mexico.

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The Rough Rock Demonstration School introduced bilingual education for young children, the adult training of #Navajo medicine men, and other innovative programs based on the perceived needs of the local community

The #Navajo are speakers of a Na-Dené Southern Athabaskan language which they call Diné bizaad (lit. 'People's language'). The term Navajo comes from Spanish missionaries and historians who referred to the Pueblo Indians through this term,

The United States believed that a solution to the erosion problem was to force #Navajo livestock reductions by killing the animals it deemed to be unnecessary.

There are 24 chantway ceremonies performed by singers. Some last up to nine days and require the assistance of dozens of helpers, especially dancers. Twelve hundred different sandpainting designs are available to the medicine men for the chantways. #Navajo

In 1941 an anthropologist interviewed an entire community of several hundred #Navajos and could not find even one adult over the age of 35 who had not received traditional medical care from a "singer," a #Navajo medicine man called a Hataali.

The #Hopi elective government have fought for defense of their original reservation, while traditionalists support the #Navajo families' efforts to remain on the disputed lands.

The #Hopi reservation was centered within a larger area that was designated the #Navajo reservation.

The #Hopi reservation, almost 2.5 million acres in size and located in northeastern Arizona near the Four Corners area just east of the Grand Canyon, is surrounded completely by the #Navajo reservation.

A coalition of five #NativeAmerican nations—the #Hopi, #Navajo, #Zuni, #Ute, and #SouthernPaiute—view this entire landscape as a deeply sacred, living cultural map holding the footprints, burial sites, and cliff dwellings of their ancestors.

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Before the 1920s, the #Navajo nation had no centrally organized tribal government. Like many other #Indian nations, the tribe was forced to create a central authority by the United States.

The basic unit of local government in the #Navajo Nation is the Chapter, each with its own Chapter House. The Chapter system was created in 1922 as a means of addressing agricultural problems at a local level.

The #Hopis complained, but the government failed to act, and the #Navajo continued to overrun #Hopi lands until they had taken over 1,800,000 acres of the original #Hopi designation

Weaving is also an important economic activity throughout the nation. #Navajo weaving has undergone many changes in designs