There is, for the record, no definite agreement on the provenance of the term Navajo, which has undergone many spellings and pronunciations over the decades and centuries, but it’s not pejorative, and I personaly don’t know any Dineh who regard it that way. I grew up near that reservation, and I ran with and against many.

Most believe it comes from the word Nabajo, which means “arroyo of cultivated fields.” But some say it comes from Navaja, meaning “clasped knife” because Navajo men indeed carried large knives of stone.

Dineh or (Diné) means The People, or Children of the Chosen People.

My book is the opposite of racist, and Chapter 7 explicitly addresses that.