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Road to Chinle October 17, 2008 |
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| The Navajo language is a dialect of the Athabaskan language family, which is most widespread in Alaska and Northern Canada; the Southern Athabaskan subdivision is also called Apachean, and the Navajo language is a Western Apachean subgroup. The Navajo are not considered Apaches, even though they share a common ancestry, language and many customs. Having crossed the Bering Strait land bridge millenia before, the common Athabaskan ancestors inhabited a region around the Great Slave Lake in what is now the Northwest Territories of Canada. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Diné entered their 'homeland', the Dinetah, around 1000 CE, and by 1300 had significantly increaseed their population. |
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