Is it true Navajos used to live in Mexico?

Question

I read that Mexico was a much bigger place in the 1600 or 1700s, it was said Navajo lived in Mexico, is this true? Are Navajo originally Native Mexicans?

Answer 1

I think of Mexican ancestry as some mix of

Aztec, Mayan, Inca, and Spanish.  But as you say, when

the border was further north, it could have included other tribes.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_peop...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nati...

Don't the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas come from there too?  I don't know.

Answer 3

Yes, the Navajo & Apache are very closely related and are classified as the same people by some (not all) that study their past. Borders simply did not exist until the arrival of Europeans & all the tribes in what are border states wandered into Mexico when they felt like doing so. Especially the Apache.

See the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_peop...

The language spoken by both Navajo & Apache are classified as Dine Languages. These languages are closely related to Chinese Manderin & are one of the few tonal languages spoken outside Africa. Speakers of a Dine (Dine' or Dineh means the people) language can learn to speak Chinese more easily than speakers of other non-related languages.

Answer 4

Hi!, I'm mexican, and sociologist. I think u are a bit confused with the fact that many tribes of north of Mexico are related with tribes as navajos, and at the beggining of XIX century Texas, New Mexico, and Florida was part of Mexico...  

RBTW , Incas are from the territory of Peru.

Answer 5

Only if true Navajos lived in Arizona, Texas, or Colorado.. they are still snowplows in New Mexico and Utah too. How can you Dineh that?

Answer 6

i know that the Navajos were in New Mexico and Arizona. i'm not sure, they might have stretched into parts of northern Mexico. of course at that time period, the US didn't stretch that far, so yes you could consider it as part of Mexico.