who are the dineh?

The Navajo People

The Navajo people are southwestern US native Americans. The Navajo populate the largest native American reservation, which sprawls over 26,000 square miles of western New Mexico, southern Utah and northern Arizona (roughly the size of West Virginia). The Navajo Nation, which comprises about 240,000 members, may be the largest native tribe in America. Only the Cherokee claim more members, but there is a vast difference in the way the two tribes define their members. The Cherokee require only 1/64th Cherokee ancestry for legal membership in the tribe. The Navajo require 1/4. If they used the 1/64 rule, their membership would be many times larger than the Cherokee.