Navajo

But the Navajo homeland is harsh country, where it's hard to find good-paying jobs and all too easy to fall sway to alcoholism and despair.

Neidhardt's Navajo patients may extrapolate their expectations of his clinic from their experience in their own cultural system, he said.

The Navajo elder's comments were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. But he refused.

One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew, who were walking among the rocks.

They are the Navajo whose ancestors walked that land at least a century, perhaps many centuries, before the first Europeans arrived.

When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training.

's Drive-In in Page, Ariz. , It wasn't a " foreign " language that the boss restricted, but a native one: Navajo.

Tourists take pictures, surrounded by the Navajo Sandstone colors, inside the Lower Antelope Canyon slot canyon in Page, Arizona.

Even at the start of a hike to Buckskin Gulch, the walls of Navajo sandstone darken overhead.

So we first hooked up a -- a spot in the Navajo Nation with a classroom in Seattle. We now have 15 sites.

I once attended a Navajo blessing ceremony, held in a tepee on the red sand of the Sonoran desert.

Her mother was Navajo, her fatherwas not.

At the precise moment I clicked the shutter, my Navajo Indian guide threw a handful of dust into the light.

But although it's served as the backdrop for many John Ford movies, this corner of the Navajo Nation is for real.

Many Navajo still carry on traditional customs, living in earth-and-log structures and practicing the tribal religion.

A Navajo religious song tells how the first hogan was built for man by the god Coyote.

In the western United States, homeowners favor the Navajo Indian style of the Southwest or the cowboy look.

Schools have historically discouraged them from speaking privately in Navajo and have forbidden it in the classroom.

She says the Kidmans never told her there had been complaints about things being said in Navajo.

She grew up on Navajo reservations in Arizona, the daughter of two teachers.

The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel.

The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people.

Corn was a staple of the Navajo Indian Tribe.

The Navajo Nation has its own elders, laws, tribal government, and police force that is vigilant at enforcing speed limits.

The code talkers also chose more than 200 Navajo words and phrases to represent military terms.

Their reason: There were complaints from customers and staff about rude comments being made in Navajo.

example, effectively put languages such as Navajo on the danger list.

Many Navajo still live in hogans today.

Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run in English.

Libraries: Tools for education and development within the Navajo Nation

What's more, Navajo land was rugged and dry, making it less desirable as farmland for white settlers;