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Begay is a fourth generation weaver [3] who grew up surrounded by women weavers. [4] From them she learned sheep herding and shearing, and how to work with wool. She learned to spin and card wool, and traditional Navajo weaving techniques. [4] Her mother taught her to identify plants to make dyes and to understand the dyeing process. [5]
Diné Bahaneʼ. Diné Bahaneʼ ( Navajo pronunciation: [tɪ̀né pɑ̀xɑ̀nèʔ], Navajo: "Story of the People" ), is a Navajo creation story that describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajo as a part of the Navajo religious beliefs. It centers on the area known as the Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo, and forms the basis ...
Navajo Woman at a waterfall c. 1920. The Navajo Nation ( Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo ), also known as Navajoland, [3] is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. The seat of government is located in Window Rock, Arizona .
The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo ( Spanish: larga caminata del navajo) ( Navajo: Hwéeldi), was the deportation and ethnic cleansing [3] [4] of the Navajo people by the United States federal government and the United States army. Navajos were forced to walk from their land in western New Mexico Territory ...
California is excluded from most definitions of the Southwest. Art of the American Southwest is the visual arts of the Southwestern United States. This region encompasses Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Utah. [1] These arts include architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography ...
The Navajo [a] are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States . With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1] [4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four ...
The term Navajo Wars covers at least three distinct periods of conflict in the American West: the Navajo against the Spanish (late 16th century through 1821); the Navajo against the Mexican government (1821 through 1848); and the Navajo against the United States (after the 1847–48 Mexican–American War ). These conflicts ranged from small ...
Obi. (sash) Back of a woman wearing a kimono with the obi tied in the tateya musubi style. An obi ( 帯) is a belt of varying size and shape worn with both traditional Japanese clothing and uniforms for Japanese martial arts styles. Originating as a simple thin belt in Heian period Japan, the obi developed over time into a belt with a number of ...