USA - Navajo People | Native American Flag Interactive Sweatshirt

The Diné weavers and code talkers of the Four Corners whose Long Walk survival and unbreakable connection to Dinétah made them the largest and most sovereign Native nation in the United States.

Navajo People — the Diné, meaning the People in the Navajo language, whose traditional homeland of Dinétah encompasses the Four Corners region of the American Southwest where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet, the high desert landscape of red rock canyons, juniper and piñon forests, and the sacred mountains of the four directions — Blanca Peak to the east, Mount Taylor to the south, the San Francisco Peaks to the west, and Hesperus Mountain to the north — whose boundaries define the Navajo world as a sacred geography whose four sacred mountains the Holy People placed at the corners of the Diné homeland at the time of creation and whose protection and maintenance remain the spiritual responsibility of the Navajo people across all generations. The Navajo world — whose people's origins in the Athabascan-speaking peoples who migrated from the subarctic regions of northwestern Canada to the Southwest sometime between 1000 and 1500 CE and whose encounter with the Pueblo peoples of the Rio Grande valley, the Spanish colonial world, and the Apache relations transformed the Diné into the distinctive people of the Four Corners whose sheepherding economy, introduced by the Spanish, became so central to Navajo life that the sheep became a symbol of Navajo identity and prosperity, whose weaving tradition of the Navajo blanket and rug, developed from Pueblo weaving techniques into a distinctly Navajo art form of geometric precision and chromatic brilliance whose Two Grey Hills, Ganado, and Wide Ruins regional styles represent the highest expression of a textile tradition that collectors and museums worldwide recognize as among the finest indigenous art in the Americas, whose Long Walk of 1864 to 1868 when the United States Army under Kit Carson destroyed the Navajo sheep herds, burned the peach orchards of Canyon de Chelly, and force-marched approximately ten thousand Navajo men, women, and children three hundred miles to the Bosque Redondo reservation at Fort Sumner in New Mexico where four years of suffering, starvation, and disease killed thousands before the United States government acknowledged the failure of the experiment and negotiated the Treaty of 1868 that allowed the Navajo people to return to a portion of their homeland, the Long Walk standing in Navajo historical memory as the defining trauma and the defining proof of Diné resilience, and whose Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, the four hundred and twenty Navajo Marines whose use of the Navajo language as the basis of an unbreakable military communications code in the Pacific theater contributed decisively to American victory at Iwo Jima and across the Pacific campaign, Major Howard Connor's declaration that without the Navajo Code Talkers the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima standing as the American military's acknowledgment of a contribution whose secrecy was maintained for twenty-three years after the war's end — continues today in the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the United States at over seventeen million acres, whose tribal government, educational institutions, language revitalization programs, and cultural renewal efforts carry the Diné people's ancient covenant with the four sacred mountains into a future as vast and enduring as the Colorado Plateau itself. This interactive sweatshirt connects you to that sacred and sovereign legacy with a QR code linking to the full story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo

HERITAG is a purpose-driven brand that celebrates cultural diversity and awareness. Wear and share your social identity and cultural heritage with a unique collection of interactive sweatshirts that carry flags of native Americans in the US. Create informative and fun moments by inviting people to scan the visible QR code and learn about the diverse US population.

Making products on demand instead of in bulk also helps reduce overproduction, and this quality sweatshirt is made especially for you as soon as you place an order.

Few more things to know about this sweatshirt:
• Scannable QR code printed on the back for an interactive and fun experience
• Designed to educate about a nation's proud history milestones and rich culture 
• Custom print-on-demand
• 50% cotton, 50% polyester
• Regular fit, sturdy and warm, pre-shrunk soft-feel fabric
• Double-needle stitched spandex collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem

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