Navajo culture
Southwestern indigenous traditions
Navajo culture encompasses the traditions, beliefs, and practices of the Diné people of the American Southwest.
Central elements include the hogan (traditional dwelling), sand painting ceremonies, and a worldview emphasizing harmony with nature called hózhó.
Navajo weaving and silverwork are renowned art forms.
The culture maintains strong clan systems and matrilineal kinship: She learned Navajo culture from her grandmother.
- fry breadDough cooked in oil
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- clan systemAncestry-based social organization
- turquoise jewelryAccessories featuring blue-green stones
- code talkersNative language military cryptographers
creation stories · weaving · rug weaving · storytelling · chants · sacred mountains · oral history · sand painting · land stewardship · medicine man · livestock herding · sheep shearing · sacred sites · Hogan · treaties · silverwork · family gatherings · tribal council
Navajo culturecultural erasure
Destroying group identity markers
Navajo cultureWASP culture
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