Navajo
The Navajo-Indians call themselves “Dine”, the people. The Name “Navajo“ comes from the Spanish and means people with big fields. ... After the Spanish settled in the 1600’s, the Navajo began to steal sheep and horses from them. ... 1863 they came went onto Navajo land and destroyed everything they found. ... The Navajo today live like the old days the best they can with the modern lifestyle, but others use modern technology to live. ... They met farmers who are known as Pueblo Indians, and the Navajo began to settle near them and learn from them. ... The Navajo reservation is with about 250,000 square miles bigger than most states of the USA. The Navajo people have lived in their homeland for thousands of years. The land is poor by present civilizations standards but to the Navajo it is a land full of riches. Many of these people live today like their ancestors before them with a few sheep and a garden plot on red dirt that only a Navajo could make anything grow in. The Navajo people produce everything they need. The Navajo people, unlike so many other Indians, have been allowed to remain in their ancestral homeland. A great part of being Navajo is the land they live on.