纳瓦霍人
简介
纳瓦霍人，为北美洲地区现存最大的美洲原住民族群，人口据估计约有30万人。
纳瓦霍人（Navajo ），亦作Navaho，是美国印第安居民集团中人数最多的一支，20世纪晚期约有170,000人。散居于新墨西哥州西北部、亚利桑那州东北部及犹他州东南部。
“纳瓦霍族”，原住民的族名由西班牙人所起，族人则自称为“Diné”，即纳瓦霍语“人”之意。
纳瓦霍族也拥有现今美国面积最大的印第安保留地，部族政府称为纳瓦霍国，横跨亚利桑那，新墨西哥和犹他三州，面积7万平方公里。
语言
纳瓦霍族群有自己的语言:纳瓦霍语，没有文字，只能口口相传，其构成相当复杂，外族人几乎无人能了解。
因此，在太平洋战争中曾用于作为密码进行明码呼叫用，以让日本军无法破解美方密码，至二战结束时也没有被破解。
纳瓦霍人操一种阿帕切语，该语属阿萨巴斯卡语(Athabascan)系。目前尚不确知纳瓦霍人与阿帕切人什么时候自加拿大向北美洲西南部迁移的；在加拿大，仍有其他操阿萨巴斯卡语的印第安人定居；但也有学者认为迁移时间是在西元900～1200年之间。因为纳瓦霍人曾受普韦布洛印第安人(Pueblo Indians)的强烈影响，早期的纳瓦霍人大概同现代阿帕切人更为相似，而与现代纳瓦霍人不太相似。
宗教信仰
参见
- 猎风行动
- 塞班岛战役
- 诺曼底登陆
- 东尼·席勒曼(Tony Hillerman)作品：印地安警探系列
相关书籍
- Bailey, L. R. (1964). The Long Walk: A History of the Navaho Wars, 1846–1868.
- Bighorse, Tiana. (1990). Bighorse the Warrior. Ed. Noel Bennett, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
- Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. 1970. ISBN 0-330-23219-3.
- Brugge, David M. Navajos in the Catholic Church Records of New Mexico 1694–1875. Window Rock, Arizona: Reseach Section, The Navajo Tribe. 1968.
- Clarke, Dwight L. (1961). Stephen Watts Kearny: Soldier of the West. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press a
- Downs, James F. (1972). The Navajo. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
- Dyke, Walter. Son of Old Man Hat. Lincoln, Nebraska: Bison Books & University of Nebraska Press. 1967 [1938]. LCCN 44-2654.
- Forbes, Jack D. Apache, Navajo and Spaniard. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. 1960. LCCN 60-13480.
- Gilpin, Laura. (1968). The Enduring Navaho. Austin: University of Texas Press.
- Gold, Peter. Navajo & Tibetan Sacred Wisdom: The Circle of the Spirit. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International. 1994. ISBN 0-89281-411-X..
- Hammond, George P. and Rey, Agapito (editors) (1940). Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540–1542. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
- Henderson, Richard.(1994). “Replicating Dog Travois Travel on the Northern Plains.” Plains Anthropologist, V39:145–59
- Iverson, Peter. (2002). Diné: A History of the Navahos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0-8263-2714-1
- Kelly, Lawrence (1970). Navajo Roundup, Pruett Pub. Co., Colorado.
- Kluckholm, Clyde & Leighton, Dorothea (1946). The Navaho. Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
- Loewen, James. W. (1999). Lies Across America. Pages 100–101; The New Press.
- McNitt, Frank. (1972). Navajo Wars. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
- Newcomb, Franc Johnson. Hosteen Klah: Navajo Medicine Man and Sand Painter. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 1964. LCCCN 64-20759.
- Plog, Stephen. Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest. Thames and London, LTD, London, England, 1997. ISBN 0-500-27939-X.
- Compiled (1973). Roessel, Ruth (editor). Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press.
- Compiled. Roessel, Ruth, 编. Navajo Livestock Reduction: A National Disgrace. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press. 1974. ISBN 0-912586-18-4.
- Terrell, J. U. (1970). The Navajos.
- Underhill, Ruth M. (1956). The Navahos. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press.
- Witherspoon, Gary. (1977). Language and Art in the Navajo Universe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
外部连结
- [1] 纳瓦霍政府网站
- Navajo Tourism {纳瓦霍政府旅游局网站
- Middle Ground Project of Northern Colorado University with images of U.S. documents of treaties and reports 1846–1931
- Navajo People 犹他州旅游局有关纳瓦霍族资料
- A Brief Overview of the Navajo People (as of October 18, 2004)
- Navajo Silversmiths , by Washington Matthews, 1883 from Project Gutenberg
- Navajo Institute for Social Justice
- Navajo Jewelry Information
- Navajo Artcrafts Website created by students of GreyHills Academy High School in Tuba City AZ.
- Navajo weaving
- Historic Collection of Navajo Pictures
- Spanish-Navajo dictionary on line AULEX
- Non-Profit Navajo Arts & Crafts Enterprise
参考文献
- ↑ 纳瓦霍人， 快懂百科
- ↑ 纳瓦霍人:纳瓦霍人（Navajo ），亦作Navaho。美国印第安居民集，百科知识中文网