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Where The Navajos Live
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· Believed holy people created them
· Placed them on earth
· Emerged through the reed
· Journeyed through the underworld ( black, blue, and yellow world)
· Finally came to present world, northwest new Mexico
· The holy people took form of wind, rain, thunder, lightning and snow
· Designated four sacred mountains
o Sierra Blanca Peak
o Mount Taylor
o San Francisco Peaks
o La Platas.
· Shii’kayah (My home)- what the Navajos call this landscape of valleys, plains, and mountains which they live.


First Peoples of North America- Rayna Green- A Groundwood Book