Navajo Clan System Exploration
A worksheet for 6th graders to learn about the Navajo Clan System, its importance, and its role in Navajo culture.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your knowledge. This worksheet will help you understand the important aspects of the Navajo Clan System.
1. What is the primary purpose of the Navajo Clan System?
2. In the Navajo Clan System, a person is born into their mother's clan. What does this mean for their father's clan?
It is not important.
It becomes their secondary clan.
It is their 'born for' clan.
They are not related to their father's clan.
3. The Navajo Clan System helps to define a person's and their place within the Navajo community.
4. When two Navajo people meet, they often introduce themselves by stating their four .
5. The Navajo Clan System is no longer practiced by most Navajo people today.
True
False
6. How does the Navajo Clan System help maintain cultural identity and traditions?