-Navajo clan name -Group -Relationship -Sound file Search Features: -Search by Clan name -Search by Group name -Search by Clan Group name As a user friendly option, the "Navajo Clans" application provides sound files. The sound file is provided for every Navajo clan that allows the user ...
Today there are about 130 clans. When we meet another Navajo for the first time we tell each other from what clan they are from. Navahos identify how we are human by the clans of our mother, father, and ancestors. This is who we are. We also have our immediate family. We have a ...
This is contrary to the matriarchal society on which the Navajo clan system is based. A newborn child takes on the mother's clan and identity; the father's clan is secondary. As a Dine, during formal or informal introductions, one identifies oneself by naming one's maternal clan, "who ...
During this period the relationship between the council and federal government changed as the council was given greater autonomy in governing the tribe. This thesis examines the history of the council leading up to and during World War II. By comparing the home front of World War I to the ...
Diné kinship teachings and values are based on individual identity (clan relations) and connecting through kinship to the larger clanship system. K’é (clan kinship, family) relies upon concepts such as love, compassion, peace, kindness, and generosity [31] to maintain relationships. Teachings ...