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Whose Land Is It Anyway?
(Middle School/High School)
Item#: B009
price: $5.00
- By Ruth Roessel
- Publisher: Rough Rock School Press
- Publish Date: 2003
- ISBN#: 0-00000-000-0
Background & Introduction:
The Navajo reservation is the largest reservation in the United States and on that reservation lives the largest tribe in the United States. The reservation is approximately 25,000 square miles or about the size of the state West Virginia. There are approximately 300,000 Navajos living both on and off the reservation. According to the 1990 census approximately 175,000 Navajos live on the Navajo reservation. Diné Bekayah, which means Navajo land, is part of the original homeland that the Navajos have always occupied. The Navajo tribe is very fortunate in being one of the few tribes that currently live on the land they originally lived on. Many other tribes had been moved off their original homeland to distant locations.
Ruth Roessel
Director of Navajo Studies Center
Rough Rock Community School
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