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Show 35^ NAVAJO INDIANS NOTED. these live in a sierra they call Napac, 82 which disparts ( se desprende) from that of the Puerto de Bucareli and San Francisco mountains in Arizona on the west to the vicinity of Jemez pueblo in New Mexico on the east, and from the San Juan mountains on the north to Mt. San Mateo or Taylor on the south. They are now gathered on a reservation comprising 7,680,000 acres, largely of desert land, in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona, extending into southern Utah, of which area only about 8,000 acres are under cultivation. They are a pastoral people, with about a million and a quarter sheep from which they derive considerable income through the sale of wool and of blankets, in the weaving of which they are adept In addition to their sheep they possess about 250,000 goats, and over 100,000 horses, mules, and burros. Among them are several expert silversmiths, whose art was originally derived from the Mexicans. Their desert range, most of which is devoid of grass during most of the year, compels constant shifting from place to place with their sheep, and prevents any considerable part of the population from settling for more than a brief period in any locality. The Navaho have become known to science through the noteworthy researches of Dr. Washington Matthews, U. S. A., whose work " Navaho Legends " ( Boston, 1897) is of high authority. The present population of the tribe is believed to be about 20,000. Other names applied to the tribe by various writers are: Apaches de Nabajoa, Apaches de Nabaju, Apaches de Navaio, Apaches de Navajox ( and other similar forms combined with the name of the cognate Apache), Nabaho, Nabajo, Nabajoa, Nabajoe, Nabbeho, Nabijo, Naboja, Nabojo, Nahjo, Namakan, Nanahaw, Nauajo, Nauajoa, Navago, Navahce, Navajai, Navajhoe, Navajoa, Navajoe, Nava-joo, Navajoses, Navejo, Navijo, Navijoe, Nevajoes, Novajo, etc.- F. W. H. " Sierra Napac is the San Francisco mountains, apart from the Grand canon, running westward, rising into other peaks, |