The Navajo Nation's official government website, navajo-nsn.gov, is the sovereign Navajo Nation's own published account of its history and religion, maintained by the tribal government itself rather than by an outside publisher. Its strength is that it is authoritative for what the Navajo Nation itself states about its own history, governance and traditions, the correct kind of source to cite when the claim is about the Nation's own self-presentation. Its limit, which needs to be stated plainly rather than assumed, is that it is a government's own account rather than an independent peer reviewed ethnography or history, so a claim treating it as confirming a contested historical or anthropological point beyond what the Nation itself asserts needs an independent scholarly source as well; the two are not interchangeable, and this source speaks only for the Nation's own voice.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
The Navajo Nation's official government website is the sovereign Nation's own self-published account of its history and governance, with no outside editorial process, hence the lower tier, though authoritative for what the Nation itself states about itself. NotesThe Navajo Nation's own official government website; a tribal government's self-account, not an independent scholarly history.
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyNavajo Nation
Custodian BasisThe official government website of a sovereign Indigenous nation publishing its own account of its own history and religion. Authoritative for what the Navajo Nation says about itself; it is not a peer-reviewed history and must not be cited as one.
Citation
AuthorNavajo Nation
PublisherNavajo Nation
URLhttps://www.navajo-nsn.gov/History
Source TypeTradition's own account
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 10 claims: 10 well-attested.
- Deities, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Cultures, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Religions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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