There are many interesting facts about the Navajo Indian heritage, culture, and chiefs.
One fact about chiefs is that chiefs were chosen by a tribal council. A chief was a leader in the tribe and only men were able to be chiefs.
The Navajo, or the Diné, are family oriented. Most of their traditions and games were developed because of their love for the land. They have many ceremonies and rituals, in fact, almost every act of their lives is is a ceremony. Ceremonies include 9 day ceremonies for the treatment of ills, mental and physical; ceremonies for planting of crops; ceremonies for the building of a hogan.
Sandpainting, songs, and prayers are part of the ceremonies. Color is also important and each color has several different symbolic meanings. Colors can define the direction or the time of day.
The are over 300,000 members of the Navajo Nation today. It is over 27,000 square miles over three states, about the size of Belgium and Holland put together.
Europeans have been in contact with the Navajo since 1540, almost 500 years.
Customs have changed over time and like any large group are different in different places and times. They have many, many customs.
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The second largest Native American tribe culture of North America..
we are nice, traditional, religious, & like to make rezzed out jokes which is funny. if you get it.
The Navajo tribe has many different chiefs do to the population
it was said by General Sheridan Jan. 1869. One of the Generals duties was to oversee the Indian territory and ensure that Indians stayed on the reservations. The phrase was spoken at a meeting with some Indian Chiefs,
two of the chiefs leading the Sioux were sitting bull and Crazy horse.as many as 2,000 Indian warriors quickly surrounded Custer and his men
Indianapolis Chiefs ended in 1962.
Your question makes the false assumption that there has only ever been one Shawnee chief - in fact there have been hundreds.The Shawnee were historically divided into many bands and many villages, each with their own chiefs; there were also war chiefs, clan chiefs, peace chiefs and tribal elder.Just a few Shawnee chiefs were :Waapameepto (also called Big Jim)Black BobWeyapiersenicah (Blue Jacket)Ma‛ka-täwikashä (Black Hoof)PaxinosTenskwatawaTecumsehNererahheMkah-day-way-may-qua (Black Fish)CornstalkPayta Kootha
The Navajo tribe has many different chiefs do to the population
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The Navajo did not have Chiefs in the American English meaning. There were important and influencial men that Americans, Mexicans and Spanish called "chiefs" but they did not command or rule or control in the usual meaning of the word. Nor did they inherit or pass on or have any title. Nor was there any organization of the whole tribe. There are about 60 clans and no clan leadership roles like in some other groups. Those that Americans and Spanish called "Chiefs" had influence and were good speakers, had lots of wealth and good clan relations and probably ceremonial knowledge. Navajo culture puts a very, very high importance on personal autonomy. To tell someone else what to do or even assume what they will do (even sometimes a child) is considered a grave social faux pas.
An Indian Burial Mound is A section of land that Indians dedicated to the lost of others, particularly Chiefs.
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Some of the Indian leaders were called chiefs.
In Latin-American and Spanish politics, caciquism is the rule of an area by Indian chiefs or local bosses. These chiefs and bosses are called caciques.
Yes, he was one of the first major Indian chiefs.
yes they do only i think they are elected like presidents or primeinisters.
There was never a leader for an entire cultural group. Every tribe had its own chiefs and members of a tribe could choose to follow one or other of those chiefs as they wished. Chiefs such as Red Jacket, Pontiac, Tecumseh and Black Hawk might attract contingents of warriors from other tribes (particularly if they showed themselves to be successful war leaders) but this did not mean that they had any power over those other tribal groups - they certainly did not.
Crazy horse, sitting bull, black elk,
He was the last of the Paiute Indian chiefs. He brought back his Tribe into federal recognition.