The Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, comprising about 16 million acres, or about 25,000 square miles.
There are more than 300,000 people living on Navajo Nation, with Tuba City being the largest city on the reservation, with a population over 8,000.
Average precipitation on the Reservation ranges from 5-25 inches, depending on elevation. Some of this is in the form of snow. The entire area is subject to winter snow and temps below freezing; with summer temps topping 100°
“Long before the theory of the ‘land bridge from Asia to North America across the Bering Strait’, Navajo elders told their own story about their own origin. The Navajo (DINE’) creation is the story of their origin through a series of emergencies through a series of different colored worlds.
Accounts vary as to the exact number and colors of the worlds, for example, black, then blue, then yellow, then glittering, all of which lead up to their final emergence in the present world.
Although raiders and plunderers since known to history, the Navajo cannot be designated a warring tribe, for however courageous they may be, their lack of political integrity has ever been an obstacle to military organization. They never have had a tribal chief, properly so called, while their many leading men could never command more than a small following.”
Although raiders and plunderers since known to history, the Navajo cannot be designated a warring tribe, for however courageous they may be, their lack of political integrity has ever been an obstacle to military organization. They never have had a tribal chief, properly so called, while their many leading men could never command more than a small following.”
