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Navajo Could Make History with Female President

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October 21, 2010

As polling places open around this country on Nov. 2, for the midterm elections, members of the country's largest Native American tribe -- the Navajo nation -- will be voting to elect a new Navajo president. And for the first time in the tribe's history, the presidential ballot will feature a woman. New Mexico State Senator Lynda Lovejoy is running for the tribe's highest office against vice president, Ben Shelly. And if she wins, she'll become the first female leader of the 300,000-member Navajo tribe, in modern history. Host Michel Martin speaks with Lynda Lovejoy from the campaign trail.


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This is exciting news, Wendy. Thanks for sharing the link with us. It seems like Lovejoy has a pretty good chance of winning. This would be a very historical event and change for the Navajo peoples.


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Does anyone know how the traditional Navajo leadership was comprised?

Visiting the Eastern Cherokee many years ago, we were told there was a War Chief and a Peace Chief. There was also a Tribal Grandmother who had the power to depose the Chief, and the women had the final say in whether or not to go to war.

If the Navajo had a similar system, Lovejoy's election would be somewhat of a return to traditional ways, with a woman having the major leadership position within the Council.


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Historically, the structure of the Navajo society is largely a matrilocal system in which only women were allowed to own livestock and land. Once married, a Navajo man would move into his bride's dwelling and clan since daughters (or, if necessary, other female relatives) were traditionally the ones who received the generational inheritance. Any children are said to belong to the mother's clan and be "born for" the father's clan. The clan system is exogamous, meaning it was, and mostly still is, considered a form of incest to marry or date anyone from any of a person's four grandparents clans.



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Yes, I know it's wikipedia... this was taken from the section marked culture.



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Very interesting info, Wendy. Thank you. I love the Southwest areas. Monument Valley is so beautiful. The pictures on that site are really nice.


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