Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Good morning.
Yatei Don.
I'm happy to be here.
I just introduced myself in the proper way of the Diné or the Diné people.
who have one of the largest land bases within the United States and in a region that's known as the American Southwest.
I am Diné.
I'm originally from the great Navajo Nation, and I currently reside in Albuquerque, New Mexico, mostly because of my work at the University of New Mexico.
People often interchange Diné and Navajo, but they mean completely different things.
Diné is a Navajo word.
It means the people.
Another word for ourself is earth surface people and five-fingered ones.
And we consider ourselves or talk about ourselves as the grandchildren of the holy people.
Navajo is often seen as a term that that was how we were recognized by outsiders, including the Spaniards, the Mexicans and the Americans.
Yes, Navajo country, we recognize one region, which is within the San Juan River region, and it's called the Netra.
And the Netra means the area or the region where the creation of the Navajo people took place.
It's the journey from the first world to the second, to the third, and to the fourth, which is this world.
So that term is Denetka.
Denetbekeia, which means the people's land, but has a more layered meaning in Hebrew.
our own language in Denebizad, encompasses the land between the four sacred mountains.
And so that is Cisnagene to the east, Tzotzil, which is called Mount Taylor above Grants, New Mexico, Dok'o'osli, which is the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona, and the Bintza, which is the La Plata Mountains in Durango, Colorado.
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