The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo) is a semi-autonomous Native American-governed territory covering 27,425 square miles (71,000 km2), occupying portions of northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico. It is the largest land area assigned primarily to a Native American jurisdiction within the United States.
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“There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)