Navajos
THE NAVAJOS INTRODUCTION I decided to do my research paper on the Navajo Indians because people always ask me questions about my culture, the Navajos, or to explain my culture or answer specific questions. ... Each time she talks about the story, it refreshes my memory about the long journey that the Navajos took a long time ago. ... The government (Navajos called the government washindoon) got tired of the raids and gathered up the Navajos on a journey to Fort Sumner. ... The Navajos traveled to Fort Sumner by various means. ... Some Navajos fell off horses or wagons and died later from their injuries. ... A lot of Navajos died from sickness and starvation on their way to Fort Sumner. ... The Navajos did not know how to prepare food given by the white people. ... Some of the Navajos ate flour right out of the bag and got sick. ... They eventually requested sheep for food since the Navajos were used to mutton as their main source of food. ... The Navajos were thankful for being allowed to continue their traditional healing rituals to heal the sick. ... The Navajos cried a lot and pleaded to be set free to return to their homeland. ... The Navajos were happy to return to the sacred mountains. The Navajos quit the old practice of raiding and learned a lesson. ... The farmers and herders eventually became the ancestors of today’s Navajos while the remainder evolved into the many Apache tribes of Arizona and New Mexico and the Athabascan speaking peoples of northern Mexico. ... In 1629, records show the Navajos as the “Apaches de Navaju’.” In 1630, Fray Alonso de Benevides wrote of the Navajos as “Great Farmers. ... Today, as younger Navajos begin to choose their own partners, some ignore this limitation, or are not aware of the taboo, or regard it as a relic from the past, yet there are still many who respect this practice. ... Around Navajos, an opening question is “What are your clans? ... An example that I can provide that best explains the conflict is the belief of the Navajos that a person should not prepare for the arrival of a baby before it is born.