While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
The tribe is divided into a number of
clans, 51 clan names having been recorded, but the number of existing
clans may be somewhat more or less. Two of these are said to be extinct,
and others nearly so. The clans are grouped in phratries. Some
authorities give 8 of these, others 11, with 3 independent clans; but
the phratries does not seem to be a well-defined group among the Navaho.
Descent is in the female line; a man belongs to the clan of his mother,
and when he marries must take a woman of some other clan. The social
position of the women is high and their influence great. They often
possess much property in their own right, which marriage does not
alienate from them.
The clans, so far as known, are as
follows:
Aatsosni, Narrow gorge
Theshtshini, Red streak
Ashihi, Salt;
Thildzhehi; Thkhaneza, Among the scattered (hills)
Bithani, Folded arms
Thkhapaha, Among the waters
Dsihlnaothihlni, Encircled mountain
Thkatshini, Among the Red (waters or banks)
Dsihlthani, Brow of the mountain
Thobazhnaazh, Two come for water
Dsihltlani, Base of the mountain
Thochalsithaya, Water under the sitting frog
Kai, Willows
Thoditshini, Bitter water
Kanani, Living arrows
Thokhani, Beside the water
Khaltso, Yellow bodies
Thodhokongzhi, Saline water
Khashhlizhni, Mud
Thotsoni, Great water
Khaskankhatso, Much yucca
Thoyetlini, Junction of the rivers
Khoghanhlani, Many huts
Tlastshini, Red flat
Khonagani, Place of walking
Tlizihlani, Many goats
Kinaani, High standing house
Tsayiskithni, Sagebrush hill
Kinhlitshi, Red house (of stone)
Tsezhinkini, House of the black cliffs
Klogi, Name of an old pueblo
Tsenahapihlni, Overhanging rocks
Loka, Reeds (phragmites)
Tsetheshkizhni, Rocky pass
Maitheshkizh, Coyote pass (Jemez)
Tsethkhani, Among the rocks
Maitho, Coyote spring
Tsetlani, Bend in a canyon
Naai, Monocline
Tseyanathoni, horizontal water under cliffs
Nakai, White stranger (Mexican)
Tseyikeite, Rocks standing near one another
Nakhopani, Brown streak, horizontal on the ground
Tsezhinthiai, Trap dyke
Nanashthezhin, Black
horizontal stripe aliens (Zuñi)
