Oh. That’s right. There isn’t one. That’s why they are using OURS.
However, their spoken language has been very useful to The United States of America. Navajo Code Talkers or a more abbreviated version: Navajo Code Talkers
Semper Fi,
TS
I hear you.
Fact is, I think it’s stupid for Urban Outfitters to appropriate the Navaho tribal name for their fashion crap as well.
But if the Navaho tribal leaders have the name trademarked, then they don’t have a problem. If they don’t have it trademarked, then they are trading on the usual special-sensitivities claim that exempts them from the rules the rest of us play by.
My daddy’s family is Danish. I don’t get a kickback from the sweetrolls the local bakers sell in the morning, nor from the furniture stores for the “contemporary” tables and chairs they sell.
Likewise there is a college up the road that plays under the nickname “Vandals,” and none of my German ancestors on my mother’s side raise a fuss about that, even though the North Dakota Fighting Sioux sports team (the other way down the road) catch all manner of national grief because that fine and noble honorarium is considered horribly racist.
A grown-up gets tired of that kind of whining.
FRegards to you, Marine