According to the text, the author talks about their history and culture. First, the author says the Navajo call themselves Dine, meaning “the people.” They identify northwestern New Mexico, their original home in the Southwest, as Dinetah, or “land of the people.” Second, the author suggests by the early 1860s the Navajo transformation from hunters and relatively sedentary farmers to mobile herders, raiders, and farmers was well developed. Third, the author advises the people continued to depend on traditional subsistence activities and soon depleted local food resources. They became increasingly dependent on goats and then on large numbers of sheep as key herd animals.
According to the class, the professor show us the video “a clash of cultures”,