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Navajo, n. and a.|ˈnævəhəʊ|
Also Nabajo, Nabeho, Navaho, Navajoe.
[f. Sp. Apaches de Navajó, f. Tewa Navahu large field.]
A. n.
a. An Athapascan Indian people of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico; a member of this people.
b. The Athapascan language of this people.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of this people.
[1629Zárate-Salmeron in Papers Archaeol. Inst. Amer. (1892) Amer. Ser. IV. 294 La nacion de los Indios Apaches de Nabajù.] 1780in New Mexico Hist. Soc. Publ. (1918) No. 21, 36 The war cruelly made upon them [sc. pueblos] by the Utes and Navajos. 1822J. Fowler Jrnl. 8 Mar. (1898) 123 The Spanierds Have Sent 700 men against the nabeho Indeans. 1834A. Pike Prose Sk. & Poems 99 An Indian girl with her Nabajo blanket, black, with a red border. 1850[see Jicarilla]. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xxv. 524 John H. Van Order acted as interpreter from English into Spanish, and Jesus Alviso from Spanish into Navajo. Nearly all the employes understood a little Navajo, but not enough to interpret. 1907[see Apache 1]. 1910G. W. James Grand Canyon iii. 18 Gray Navaho rugs cover the brown floor. 1921[see Apache 1]. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 39 A Navajo woman, weaving her rug in the pattern of her dream. 1951see beat-up n. and a.]. 1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound 243 The Navaho..were one of the few Indian tribes who remained unaffected by the Ghost Dance of 1890. 1972A. Fowles Double Feature ix. 173, I stared, instead, at a Navajo rug hanging on the wall. It was worked in small black triangles of black and red, worked in a stark zigzag pattern on a cream background. 1973T. Allbeury Choice of Enemies xxviii. 155, I can get by quite happily in Navajo. 1975Guardian 21 Jan. 2/6 The more culturally intact tribes such as the Navajos, the nation's largest. |