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The Navajo People

Brainstorm everything you know about the Navajo people (feel free to look at your notes). Write it down.

Bell ringer

Share what you have with your group

Now…

Raise your hand and share with the rest of the class

Finally…

Pull out a piece of paperTitle it: The Navajo PeopleWrite these categories on the left side of your

paper, leaving about 3 lines between each one: Oral TraditionEnvironment LanguageJewelry-Making Basket-weaving and Sand ArtWeaving Ceremonies and Traditions

Get Notes Ready

Prehistoric until SpanishOnly recently did Navajo write themselves

Origin Myths?Navajo migrate

Certain times of yearCoyote and the Stars

Oral Traditions:

Dry and barren

Environment

Four Sacred Mountains

Environment Continued

Four is a sacred numberFour Sacred MountainsFour Sacred colors:

Red, White, Yellow, BlackFour elementsFour directionsFour winds

New Mexico Flag

Environment Continued

Food?

Use meat, skin, and woolPrevious to Pioneers, lots of tension

with Spanish/Mexicans.RaidsBoast: Could get rid of all of the

settlers except they raised livestock for them.

Environment Continued

Describes, doesn’t nameTakes a long time to say things

Not actually a written languageWhen you meet someone, you don’t just say

your name. You give your name, your parents clans (tribes within a tribe), and where you are fromhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waELx-wZm

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Language

BeadedIn the 1800’s began to make silver jewelry,

usually with turquoiseTurquoise is a sacred stone to the NavajoLearned from the SpanishMain method: melting silver and pouring it into

moldshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAT6qKRj

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Jewelry Making

BasketsMade from coiled sumacMainly used for ceremonies nowAlways has a pathway-

Progression to next stageSandpainting

Had healing properties, used during ceremonies

So powerful that it has to be destroyed afterSome people make them to display now, but

always made with an error

Basket-Weaving and Sand Art

According to tradition first brought by Spider Woman and Man

Shares many things with Pueblo weavinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hscu4nLF

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Weaving

Rite of Passage- what ones do you have?Cradleboard- father makesGirl Coming of Age- runsBoy Coming of Age- sent into wild

Ceremonies and Traditions

Ceremonies and Traditions cont.

Name one thing you learned today that you think is important or interesting, and that you will go home and share with your family.Think about it silently and write it downShare within your groupShare with class

Think-Pair-Share