Navajo

Unifying Humanity: Kit Carson Park to Become Red Willow Park

Lyla June Johnston

6/19/14

As a half European and half Navajo woman, I had a difficult time watching the two sides of my ancestry divided...

Burned Out: Huge AZ Wildfire Slows Navajo Jewelry, Pottery Sales in Sedona

Kristin Butler

6/2/14

Starting May 20, a wildfire blazed in the heart of Arizona between tourist lures Sedona and Flagstaff, engulfing more

Healing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder With Native Medicine

Vincent Schilling

5/26/14

Alfred Gibson (Navajo), spiritual leader and medicine man, helps Native veterans heal from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through the “enemy way” ceremony with the support o...

Learning Navajo Helps Students Connect to Their Culture

Arizona State University News

5/3/14

Navajo is not only a language that may be learned through classes at Arizona State University, it’s a way for students to reconnect to their culture. “Language is one key thing...

Video: How to Say Earth Day in Navajo

ICTMN Staff

4/22/14

In Navajo there is no such term, specifically, as Earth Day. This is perhaps because to many Indigenous Peoples, every day is Earth Day...

10 Hand-Painted Hats by Navajo Hatmaker Melissa Barnes [22 Pictures]

Dominique Godreche

4/17/14

From her Navajo background, Melissa Barnes inherited a gift for transforming cowboy hats into unique art pieces.

Pretty Girl in a Headdress: Cultural Appropriation Gets Ugly

Dwanna L. Robertson

3/31/14

When Christine Fallin, daughter of Oklahoma governor, Mary Fallin, released a photo of herself wearing a headdress on March 6, she sparked outrage among people who belong to the 37-plus Native Nations established in Oklahoma and across Indian country, in general....

Support the Healthy Diné Nation Act!

Notah Begay III

3/22/14

As I sit here listening to my 6-year-old daughter read, I wonder what the future holds for her and the next generation of Navajo children....

American Indian College Fund Tribal College Honoree of the Year Named

American Indian College Fund

3/11/14

Dr...

Guinea Pigs: 70 Years Later, National Cancer Institute Studies Nuclear Fallout

Tanya H. Lee

3/7/14

Nearly 70 years have elapsed since the first atomic bomb was dropped—not the ones visited upon Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but the test bombs that were inflicted on unsuspecting New Me...

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