Salt Water Clan

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The Salt Water Clan, Tódík’ǫ́zhí in Navajo, is a Navajo clan mentioned in several of Tony Hillerman's Navajo detective novels, with land imagined to be somewhere in the vicinity of Toadlena.

The Navajo, or Diné, are comprised of more than forty family lineages, or clans, that claim common ancestry.

Published Works: 
The Blessing Way (1970)
Term Type: 
Cultural Reference