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To: Sherman Logan

BTW, Anasazi is the Navajo word for “stranger” or “not one of us”.


28 posted on 08/06/2009 10:03:58 AM PDT by Ptarmigan (God Hates Bunnies. God Loves Ptarmigans)
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To: Ptarmigan

There is a remarkable degree of lack of agreement on what the term “Anasazi” means in Navajo. I’ve seen various claims for old, ancient, enemy, stranger, and various combinations.

BTW, in the languages of a great many “indigenous peoples” the word for “stranger” or “not one of us” is also inherently the word for “enemy.”

Just as the term most peoples have for their own group translates into English as The People. Meaning of course that other groups aren’t.


30 posted on 08/06/2009 10:38:25 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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