Navajo reservation
Diné sovereign territory
The Navajo reservation is the largest Native American reservation in the United States, spanning parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
Home to the Navajo Nation, it covers over 27,000 square miles of high desert, mesas, and canyons, including Monument Valley.
The Navajo people call their homeland Dinétah.
She grew up on the Navajo reservation near Window Rock.
- Arizona48th state admitted
- code talkersNative language military cryptographers
- New MexicoSouthwestern U.S. state
- coal miningUnderground carbon extraction
- hoganNative American earth dwelling
chapter house · Utah · education programs · clan system · treaty rights · weaving · grazing rights · trading post · tribal courts · sand painting · sovereignty · storytelling · self-determination · Monument Valley · Four Corners · tourism · community centers · water rights
- Navajohogan, hogans, turquoise jewelry, Monument Valley, fry bread
Navajo reservationprivate property
Individually owned assets
state land · public domain · national forest · national park · federal land
Navajo reservationNew York City
America's largest city
Los Angeles · melting pot · urban center · suburb · colonial settlement
Navajo reservationsettler colony
Territory where arrivals supplant natives
colonial settlement · Plymouth Colony · Jamestown · frontier town · boomtown
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