The histories of the origins of the Navajos, written by White anthropologist or archaeologists, are often based upon misinformation and misconceptions. They claim the Navajo learned from the Pueblos and Zunis and came to the Americas by crossing the Bering Strait. Arnold Clifford sets the record straight – giving the real meaning to the name “Anasazi “ and the true location of the Navajo emergence story.
He also tells listeners what the Navajo really thought of Richard Wetherill. Son of a prominent rancher, Wetherill was an amateur explorer who ‘discovered’, and excavated sites related to ancient Pueblo peoples. Clifford calls him a “grave robber and pot hunter – who used building blocks from Choco Canyon for his own personal house!
A fascinating story of dating Navajo history by comparing the position of the tail of the Big Dipper to the depiction of the constellation in the tribe’s Big Star Sand Paintings rounds out this authentic telling of Navajo history.
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