The suicide rate among #Navajos is 30 % higher than the national average.

In 1941 #Navajos had earned only $150,000 from industry, but World War II was a boom time for the economy, giving the #Navajos a taste for money and what it could buy.

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.

Large numbers of #Navajos tend to identify themselves as Christians, with most of them mixing elements of both traditional belief and Christianity.

The Bureau of #Indian Affairs forbade the selling of breeding stock, eager to see the #Navajos regain self-sufficiency.

In 1936 the Native American church began to spread to the south into the #Navajo Nation, and it grew strong among the #Navajos in the 1940s

Virtually all of the 3,600 #Navajos who served in World War II underwent the cleansing of the Enemyway ceremony upon their return from the war.

Until early in the twentieth century #Navajos were also able to carry out their traditional way of life and support themselves with their livestock, remaining relatively unnoticed by the dominant culture.

Until the early twentieth century #Navajos were able to continue deriving their livelihood from their traditional practices of stockraising

The contemporary government of the #Navajos is the #Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona.

By 1867 several #Navajos were working with silver, and by 1880 they had begun to combine turquoise with their designs

The Bureau of #Indian Affairs forbade the selling of breeding stock, eager to see the #Navajos regain self-sufficiency.

At times the #Navajos were allied with the #Spanish against other #Indians, principally the Utes; other times the #Spanish joined forces with the Utes and fought the #Navajos.