Why the Navaho Buy So Much Turquoise

WHY THE NAVAHO BUY SO MUCH TURQUOISE ⁶

There is a sacred place in the Navaho country where they go to make offerings to obtain domestic animals. If they have clean hearts and are thinking good thoughts toward all their people, a white horse will appear to them. So they get horses and sheep. They use some of the turquoise for themselves, but the most of it they use for these offerings.

Footnotes

196:6 Informant 6.