Navajo

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Navajo (pronounced and sometimes written in English, Navaho), or Diné (pronounced [dɪnɛ], meaning The People in Navajo) refers or relates to the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America, with about 300,000 members. The name Navajo means "the people of many cultivated fields" and likely originated from a nearby warring tribe. The Navajo Nation's reservation encompasses the Four Corners region of northern Arizona, southern Utah, and northern New Mexico, over 16 million acres. The term Navajo also refers to the Navajo language.

The following terms have been named after the Navajo tribal name:

• Camp Navajo, an Army National Guard training and munitions storage center
• Navajo (passenger train)
• Navajo, Montana
• Navajo, New Mexico
• Navajo, Oklahoma
• Navajo County, Arizona
• Navajo Dam, New Mexico
• Navajo Sandstone
• Navajo-Churro, a breed of sheep
• Navajo Generating Station, an electrical generation site
• SM-64 Navajo, an experimental cruise missile
• The Navajo, a sleeping car on the Super Chief passenger train
• The Piper PA-31 Navajo, a light, twin engine airplane
• Mazda Navajo
• Navajo Community, San Diego

[edit] See also

• Code talkers
• Dine College
• Dinetah
• Hogan
• Long Walk of the Navajo
• Mohave
• Navajo language
• Navajo music
• Navajo mythology
• Navajo Nation
• Navajo people
• Navajo Rug
• Navajo Tribal Council
• Navajo Tribal Police
• Skin-walker (mythology)