ACCORDING to Navajo creation stories, the first holy people passed through three worlds — Black, Blue and Yellow — before settling here, in the White, or Glittering, World. They emerged through a giant reed and, shortly after, established the four sacred mountains that mark the boundaries of the Navajo homeland, an area that extends far beyond the present-day Navajo Nation.The Navajo Nation covers 27,000 square miles (about the size of West Virginia) over a large chunk of Arizona, part of New Mwxico and a swath of Utah . More than 250,000 Navajos, or Diné (the people), as they call themselves, live in Diné Bikéya, or Navajo Land. For anyone seeking to learn more about this country’s largest native population, there are ample opportunities to spend time with the Navajo.
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