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Article: Navajo oppose name change
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- Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
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- January 12, 1994
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Brenda Norrell
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
01-12-1994
Navajo oppose name change.
By Brenda Norrell
Today Correspondent
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- To change the name of the Navajo to Dine would be a return to an age of exile and suffering, say some Navajo opposing the change from Navajo to Dine, which means "the people."
"We don't want to go back to the pain. We think we've suffered long enough," said tribal councilman Norman John, relaying the comments of Navajo in his communities of ... Lakes and Mexican Springs, N.M.
Navajo there see the name "Dine" as representing an era of suffering which ended with the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo in 1868. The exile, starvation, freezing temperatures and ...