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- noun Plural form of
Navajo .
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Examples
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The Navajoes were a mountain people and drew their religion from the mountains.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 Various
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"Navajoes," replied Zeke after another inspection.
The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine Ross Kay 1917
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"But the Navajoes are the notorious enemies of the New Mexicans!
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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Navajoes and the Mescalero and Jicarilla Apaches, he is a faithful friend of the Indians.
The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 03, March, 1890 Various
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After journeying fifty miles in this direction, and feeling themselves free from the scrutiny of the Mexican authorities, they changed their course to the southwest, and travelled through the country occupied by the Navajoes, who are an interesting and dangerous race of Indians, even to the trader of this day.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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These are mostly Pyides, into whose country some of the Utah bands make periodical forays, capturing their young women and children, whom they sell to the Navajoes in New Mexico, as well as to the Mormons.
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Navajoes, and Lipans, they formed a sort of Indian confederacy; rarely at war among themselves, but always with the whites; and when united, able to put a force in the field which would ride over the Texan frontier like a whirlwind; and without hesitation penetrate hundreds of miles into Mexico, desolating whole provinces, returning sated with slaughter, and burdened with plunder.
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman
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Also near us were the Zuni Indians, who, like the Pueblo Indians, lived in stone-built communal houses, had entirely different customs to those of the Apaches and Navajoes, and are perhaps the debased descendants of
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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The Apaches have committed no depredations of late, but the Navajoes have broken their treaty by stealing several thousand sheep from the settlements on the Rio del Norte.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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The neighbors of the Utahs, the Navajoes, occasionally make their appearance in the town.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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