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Navaho or Navajo?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Berard Haile O.F.M.
Berard Haile O.F.M.*
Affiliation:
St. Michaels, Arizona
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Currently there is nation-wide interest in the plight of the Navaho Indians. These sheep-raisers in the northwestern corner of New Mexico, the northeastern corner of Arizona and southeastern Utah, at present number more than 60,000. Historically, the Navaho belonged to that Spanish colony, north of Mexico, which was known as New Mexico. Though the colony was chiefly around the Pueblo Indian settlements, the Spanish Crown laid claim to all territory north of Mexico, which included our present New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah, perhaps more than that.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , July 1949 , pp. 85 - 90
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1949

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References

1 Land of Sunshine, vol. XIII, nos. 4-6, 1900; vol. XIV, nos. 1-3, 1901, Los Angeles, California.

2 The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630. Translated by Mrs. Edward E. Ayer, annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis (Chicago, 1916). This is briefly referred to as the “Ayer Memorial.”

3 Fray Alonso de Benavides’ Revised Memorial of 1634, Frederick Webb Hodge, George P. Hammond, Agapito Rey (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1945). This is referred to as the “Propaganda Memorial.”

4 Kluckhohn, Cf. Clyde and Spencer, , A Bibliography of the Navaho Indians (New York: J. J. Augustine, 1940). On p. 29,Google Scholar the authors erroneously quote: Hewett, Edgar L. 1906. Origin of the name Navajo, instead of Navaho.

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