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Navajo Springtime

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Broadcaster:  France 5

The Navajos occupy a territory the size of Belgium which overlaps three states in the American southwest:  Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. With its 280,000 members, it is the biggest Indian nation in the United States. 

 

Today the reservation lives in relative autonomy with its own political institutions: representatives, an administration, a President, courts, a police force... The Navajos manage their own mining and agricultural resources – they have always raised livestock. They have also founded the first Indian university in the US, hospitals, and a newspaper. But above all, more than any other Indian nation of North America, the Navajos have maintained their identity and values. They have also avoided certain traps of the modern world: there is no casino on their land, and the sale of alcohol is forbidden. 

 

Popularized in the novels of Tony Hillerman, the Navajos continue to fascinate us as much with the richness of their culture as with their refusal to assimilate the western world. They embody a spirit of resistance that is exemplary.

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