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NAVAHO, or NAVAJO

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NAVAHO, or NAVAJO

NAVAHO, or NAVAJO , a tribe of See also:

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AMERICAN

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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Athabascan stock . They inhabit the See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

PART

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ARIZONA (from the Spanish-Indian Arizonac, of unknown meaning,—possibly " few springs,"-the name of an 18th-century mining camp in the Santa Cruz valley, just S. of the present border of Arizona)

Arizona and New See also:

Mexico . The See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority live by breeding horses, See also:

sheep and goats . They are well known for their beautiful blanket See also:

WEAVING

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