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= //Culture .// = Navajo is related to the Apaches. The Navajo language is one of life, culture and people. Their art is woven blankets, silver and turquoise jewelry , and a certain style of paintings based on "sandpaintings". Those paintings were used in ceremonies. The silversmithing, basket-weaving , and rug- weaving is known throughout the world.

The Navajos tell the story of Emergence, First Man , First Woman , and the peopled moved from the First World to the Fourth World.

The new goods and technologies, are flint points and moccasins.

When there is an illness medicinemen use herbs, prayers , songs , and ceremonies to help cure patients. There are over fifty kinds of ceremonies that are used in the Navajo culture.

In the Navajo culture there are four directions, four seasons , the first four clans , and four colors that are related with the four sacred mountains. The four directions also mean four colors: White Shell means the East, Turquoise is the South , Yellow is the West , and Jet Black is the North.

The Navajo raised goats and sheep and eventually developed a economy, exchanging rugs and silverwork with white traders.