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1. The Navajo Reservation covers many square miles in the Four Corners region. In fact, the reservation is the size of what state?
2. Many Navajos live near a sacred landform. This sacred place is called:
3. All through Navajoland or "Dinetah", abandoned cliff dwellings can be seen on top of high mesas. Built by the Anasazi or "old ones", these are the ancestral homes of the Navajos.
4. You are visiting Navajoland and want to take home a traditional Navajo craft. You might select _______ ?
5. Navajos are most closely related to what other tribe?
6. Which of the following is NOT a traditional Navajo food?
7. The traditional Navajo home, called a "hogan" is shaped like:
8. You are driving through the reservation and you notice a tee-pee. What is probably going on?
9. Even though Navajos are matrilinear, only men can perform as "hathalis" (medicinemen or singers) for the multi-day ceremonies.
10. Colorado considered a plan to print its election ballots in Navajo as well as English. Why did this amuse some Navajos?
11. When the first American soldiers signed treaties with the Navajos, the treaties were almost immediately broken. Why?
12. In 1861, the Navajo endured their version of the Cherokee "Trail of Tears" when soldiers rounded up the old and the young, the healthy and the infirm and marched them into captivity at Fort Sumner. Many died or were shot during the journey. What was this journey called?
13. If you are out and about on the reservation in the fall and see a costumed figure called a "yeibechai", wearing a mask and carrying a rattle, you should:
14. Many Navajos have enlisted in the armed forces over the last century.
If a traditional Navajo sees combat, he will want the following ceremony performed when he returns:
15. Tony Hillerman is a famous writer whose mysteries feature Navajo Detectives Leaphorn and Chee. What other mystery writer employs a Native American detective?
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