Navajo (sometimes spelled Navaho), or Diné, (means The People in Navajo) refers or relates to the Navajo people, currently the second largest Federally recognized Native American tribe in the United States, with 298,197 people claiming to be full or partial Navajo, according to the 2000 U.S. census.[1]
The name Navajo may have originated from the English, [2] who possibly took 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 km˛). The word Navajo also refers to the Navajo language.
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