martes, 10 de junio de 2008

NAVAJO’S FAMILY


Navajo is a Native American tribe located among the states of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Navajo was the name that the first Spanish explorers gave to them on having named them “Indian Apaches of Navajo ". The family occupied and important part into the tribe, because the union of the clans contributed to the preservation of their customs.

Tribal each tribe established its own requirements for being an enrolled member; this is usually based in the blood. In the family everyone had an important part to play. If any member of the family doesn’t fulfill his responsibility the whole family suffers.

During some time, living of the hunt and of some rudimentary culturing, the pools where cattle drink continued his nomadic customs in trip after the hunt and fertile territories. The huts that they were living, called hoggans, were for then light and easy to move, as well as the rest of his possessions, necessarily limited.

The woman has a great importance in the society pool where cattle drink, up to the point of which the hereditary transmission is constituted by mother. The familiar harmony is the base of her society, together with the respect to the environment.


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