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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"navajo"”.
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Urban Diné (Navajo) Ethnography
… into a critical social justice urban Diné (Navajo) educator in San Bernardino, California. An ethnography is used to thoroughly analyze oneself as an educator by identifying and understanding the identity and context of oneself, the students, the school, and the local community. This …
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Socializing English-Speaking Navajo Children
… used to understand storytelling practices on the Navajo Nation. This study examined how three young English-speaking Navajo children, ages 3, 4 and 6, were socialized to tell stories. The broad research question that guided this work was, 'How are young English-speaking Navajo children socialized …
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Theoretical responses to Navajo questions.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
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Missing noun phrases in Navajo.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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A Structural Analysis of Navajo Basketball
… a structuralist methodology, the nature of the Navajo Indian game system. Specifically, the purpose of the study was twofold: (1) to identify and describe the form of basketball and its content as played by Navajo student athletes, and (2) attempt to identify basic underlying principles of …
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A town community for the Navajo tribe
Thesis (M. Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1959.
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A study of the Navajo relative clause.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1973. M.S.
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The dendrochronology of the Navajo pueblitos of Dinetah
… in defensible positions in the traditional Navajo homeland of Dinetah. Pueblitos have been a key piece of evidence used to infer a massive immigration of Puebloans into the Navajo country following the Spanish Reconquest of New Mexico. Archaeological and tree-ring evidence places the sites …
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Synapsid Burrows in the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Utah
… below interdune deposits of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone near Moab, Utah are interpreted as synapsid burrows based on similar morphologies to fossil and extant synapsid burrows. Two types of burrows are distinguished by their size. Type I burrows are large diameter and comprise complex, …
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Technoeconomic feasibility of decentralized desalination in the Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation, located in the southwest United States, faces a significant water stress issue, with approximately 30% of households lacking access to piped water. For many, connection to a piped network is infeasible and decentralized solutions, like desalination, have encountered barriers to …
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Diné Bizaad Bitsisiléí Bóhoo’aah: A Basis for learning Navajo
… is meant to provide a brief introduction to the Navajo language, Diné Bizaad. It is understood that most of the present Diné youth speak English as their only language, as the population of Diné Bizaad speakers increase in age. This guide assumes an English-speaking background and attempts to …
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Soft-sediment Deformation and Dune Collapse in the Navajo Sandstone
… of Zion National Park follows an outcrop of Navajo Sandstone, which displays a uniquely well-exposed assemblage of features associated with failure of the lee face of a large eolian dune, and run-out over an expanse of interdune sediments downwind of that bedform. Exposed features include …
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Woven Kin: Exploring Representation and Collaboration in Navajo Weaving Exhibitions
… by museum institutions in the display of Navajo weavings. A postcolonial theoretical framework is utilized to analyze six Navajo weaving exhibition installments over the past decade. Additionally, a critical reflection is offered about the development of the author's collaborative …
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Prioritization of Potable Water Infrastructure Investments on the Navajo Nation
… levels and low socio-economic status, the Navajo Nation’s socio-economic well-being is hindered greatly in part by the lack of an adequate potable water infrastructure which has resulted in health disparities and has attributed to stunted economic growth within the Nation. Large candidate …
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTERCULTURAL SENSITIZER FOR TRAINING NON-NAVAJO PERSONNEL.
The purpose of this study was to develop a Navajo Intercultural Sensitizer. It is an attempt to sensitize non-Navajo educational personnel who have come to work in the Navajo Nation to the attributional system of the Navajo culture. The assimilationist, culturally destructive educational policies …
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Constructing the Navajo Capital: Landscape, Power, and Representation at Window Rock
… hierarchies and reinforce discrimination against Navajos in their own homeland, despite other attempts by that administration to promote cultural pluralism. I contend that the design of Window Rock did not reflect the values or concerns of most Dine at the time, but instead represented the …
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