Navajo (sometimes written Navaho), or Diné, (meaning The People in Navajo) refers or relates to the Navajo people, currently the second largest Native American tribe in the United States, with 298,197 people claiming to be full or partial Navajo in the 2000 U.S. census.
The name Navajo likely originated from the Spanish, who may have taken the name from the Tewa language's original word, "navahu" meaning ‘fields adjoining an arroyo.’[3] The Navajo Nation's reservation encompasses the Four Corners region of northern Arizona, southern Utah, and northern New Mexico, over 16 million acres (65,000 km²). The term Navajo also refers to the Navajo language.
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