Pepper Ann1997

Andy:
There are over 300 federally recognized American Indian tribes in North America, and each one has its own distinctive culture and heritage. The name Navajo was given to our people by the Spanish missionaries, we called ourselves "Dene", the old Navajo land the Dinetah stretched from what is now Colorado through New Mexico and into Arizona. It is believed that the earliest Dene may have migrated to this land from the north over 1200 years ago.

Pepper Ann:
[reading her report in school] And then in WWII, the Navajo language was used as a code for the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific, and was never broken. Today the Navajo nation is one of the largest American Indian tribes in the United States, and I'm proud that my heritage includes a people who are some of the original ingredients to our great American Melting Pot.