ANTH 310 Lecture 12: Anth_310_Lecture_12
17 May 2020
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Dine (navajo), apache, and tohono and akimel o"odham. Navajo code talkers that the us used during world war ii, and no one ever broke the code. Linguistic evidence suggests that navajo/apache populations expanded relatively late in prehistory from western portion of the. They expanded into the southwest culture area, apparently from the plains, beginning after ad 1500, but are not apparent until after the coronado expedition. Dine beliefs reject these ideas, saying there is no evidence in their oral tradition of this movement. Instead, their religion teaches that they travelled through three or four worlds beneath this one and emerged into this sphere in the la. Plata mountains of southwestern colorado or the navajo dam: by approximately 1500 ad, the dine and apache adopted various pueblo, spanish, and other traits, forming the present dine and apache cultures, weaving blankets became extremely important.
