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.

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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

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Traditional vs. assimilated/modernized lifeways

Navajo culturecultural erasure

Destroying group identity markers

acculturation

Settler vs. Indigenous Worldview

Navajo cultureWASP culture

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