| Summary: | oughly one thousand years ago, the Navajo tribe migrated from the Athapascan homeland in the northwestern subarctic to the southwest of the United States. Traditionally nomadic hunters and gatherers, the Navajo settled down on the sacred land they called Dinetah or Navajoland, located between the four sacred mountains representing the four walls of Hogan, the traditional home of the Navajo. The Navajo learned how to plant and harvest corn and set up a reliable food supply through herding and agriculture from their Pueblo neighbors (Mythology of American Nations 60-61). Today, the Navajo still occupy their sacred land that presently covers
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