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To: Grimmy
"Navajo were called “head crushers” because of their habit of executing prisoners by dropping large rocks on their heads." No one in my family ever said anything about any of us dropping rocks on people's heads. =) I think the word navajo was adapted from a Tiwa word meaning navahu˙, arroyo with cultivated fields. I can't speak for the Apaches, so there you go.
12 posted on 07/16/2008 5:09:02 PM PDT by Redcitizen (I need ammunition like a day needs sunshine. =))
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To: Redcitizen
I think the word navajo was adapted from a Tiwa word meaning navahu˙, arroyo with cultivated fields.

As long as they don't use the word Chicago-ho.

Which means something else entirely! ;-)

14 posted on 07/17/2008 11:46:50 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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