LibGuides: Languages at SLCC: Navajo (Diné bizaad)

Navajo Language

Navajo (Dine' Bizaad) is an Athabascan Native American language in the S.W. of the U.S. It is only related to Apache.

Databases for Navajo Culture and Language

Although SLCC’s databases offer few articles geared toward undergraduate students of Navajo, they do provide information about a great variety of topics relating to Navajo culture, which is an important part of learning the language.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch offers access to perspectives often overlooked by mainstream media sources with magazines and newspapers from minority presses. Native American, African American, Hispanic American, and many other voices provide up-to-date reporting on current events as well as academic research on ethnic studies and social issues.
JSTOR
JSTOR combines scholarly research and primary sources, including a robust image collection. Useful for humanities, social sciences, science and math, business, and the arts. JSTOR has a moving paywall that may limit access to the most recent research.
U.S. Newsstream
Recent U.S. news content with access to over 150 local, national, and international newspapers, blogs, podcasts, wires, and more. Use this database to access articles in newspapers such as the Salt Lake Tribune.

Navajo Culture and Language Websites

Dual Language Navajo-English Dictionary (PDF)
An English-Navajo wordlist in a PDF file (requires Acrobat Reader). Rather outdated, but contains interesting information about kinship terms and Navajo clan system.
Navajo Lang. from Navajopeople.org Site
Good basics in site by Clayton Long, a language instructor for the San Juan School District and Harold Carey, a historian from Idaho.
Navajo Times
The newspaper of the Navajo People.

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