“A Navajo Smile” Woman sitting on her porch, Navajo Nation in 1904

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#20DaysofNativeColors 📸 18/20

This photo marks the eighteenth in a series of twenty photos I've given color of Indigenous and First Nations people who lived a century ago in America

*Photo by Edward S. Curtis (Library of Congress)*

A warm photo taken by Edward S. Curtis that I could not resist giving color. This Navajo woman has a blanket draped over her shoulders, which might be a Pendleton.

Navajo are the second most populous of all Native American peoples in the United States, with some 300,000 individuals. At some point before European colonization the Navajo and Apache migrated to the Southwest from Canada, although the exact timing of the relocation is unknown, it is thought to have been between 1100 and 1500 CE.

The Navajo Nation extends into the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, covering over 27,000 square miles of unparalleled beauty. Diné Bikéyah, or Navajoland, is larger than 10 of the 50 states in America.