Navajo, indigenous people of North America, North American Indigenous Peoples

Related Category: North American Indigenous Peoples

Navajo or Navaho[both: nA´vuhO] Pronunciation Key, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Athabascan branch of the Nadene linguistic stock (see Native American languages). A migration from the North to the Southwest area is thought to have occurred in the past because of an affiliation with N Athabascan speakers; the Navajo settled among the Pueblo and also assimilated with the Shoshone and the Yuma both physically and culturally while remaining a distinct social group.