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October 13, 2006
The Navajo Football League - : The Oct 22nd Oakland at Arizona game will be broadcast in three languages, English, Spanish, and Navajo.
Yeah. It's only a couple of games a year the last couple of years, but hey, it's better than nothing.
posted by apoch at 08:02 PM on October 13, 2006
That is pretty cool. I don't speak Navajo but I would assume there are enough people in that part of the country that do for them to do something like this.
posted by kidrayter2005 at 12:57 PM on October 14, 2006
Dammit, I'm tired of these Navajos coming to America and not learing to speak English! They probably hate Lance Armstrong, too. Freakin' foreigners.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 03:16 PM on October 14, 2006
I would assume there are enough people in that part of the country that do for them to do something like this. The education in public schools is apalling. You may also assume that the Navajo people as well as their language were in what is now called Arizona and New Mexico long before Columbus "discovered" the New World.
posted by irunfromclones at 12:35 PM on October 16, 2006
irunfromclones, it's also important to understand that after Columbus and his peeps showed up, a lot of these tribes and races dwindled down to almost (or in some cases literally) nothing. If the Navajo population has grown to the point where they have become an actual demographic again, then that's a damn sight better than things were fifty or a hundred years ago.
posted by chicobangs at 01:22 PM on October 16, 2006
You are right, we should be grateful that the Americans didn't completely exterminate us, and now that we survived and begin to flourish again after over 200 years, we can now hear football in our part of the country in our native tongue.
posted by irunfromclones at 03:28 PM on October 16, 2006
If there's enough Navajo speakers to justify a third-language broadcast, then that's a very promising development.