Navajo Culture
The Native American culture and history is strong in Thoreau. The Navajo Nation operates a Chapter House here, and many Navajo (or Diné) residents speak their native language. Thoreau is a local trading center for artisans including rug weaving, sandpainting, silversmithing, potterymaking, and turquoise jewelry making. Anasazi archaeological sites connecting with Chaco Canyon can be found in and around the town.
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“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man’s culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)