But the Navajo homeland is harsh country, where it's hard to find good-paying jobs and all too easy to fall sway to alcoholism and despair.
但纳瓦霍人的家乡面临严峻的问题，在那里人们很难找到报酬颇丰的工作，并极其容易染上酗酒的恶习，陷入绝望的境地。This land was the home of several groups of Native Americans, including the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes.
这片陆地是美洲土著人的家园：包括苏人，夏安族人，和阿拉伯霍人的部落。If the Navaho and the Sioux had known what was coming for them, they never would have made those treaties.
如果纳瓦霍人和苏族人早知道会发生什么，他们绝不会签订那些条约。Her mother was Navajo, her fatherwas not.
母亲是纳瓦霍人，父亲不是。Many Navajo still carry on traditional customs, living in earth-and-log structures and practicing the tribal religion.
很多纳瓦霍人仍然延续着传统的风俗，他们住在泥土和圆木结构的房屋里，信奉部落的宗教。A Navajo religious song tells how the first hogan was built for man by the god Coyote.
纳瓦霍人的一首宗教歌曲告诉人们第一所Hogan是如何被狼神建造出来让人们使用的。The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel.
两个纳瓦霍人引起了美国航空航天局人员的注意，他们来到父子俩跟前。About half of Navajos today speak their native language, according to the Science article, but Iverson fears that estimate is high.
据《科学》杂志的文章称，今天有一半的纳瓦霍人说本族语言，但是艾弗森教授认为这个数字被高估了。The Navajos and the Hopi strongly dislike eye contact.
纳瓦霍人和霍皮人都不喜欢恶眼神接触。