Culture

The sharp snap of the shinai, Japanese bamboo swords, cracking into each other echoed through the basketball court in the North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center.

Young Diné who don’t speak Diné Bizaad at home is increasing every year, said Pete Sands, who fears the declining fluency among young generations.

Native horseback riders rode from Smith Lake to Rehoboth on Monday in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day.

Matthew Charley was having coffee one early morning when the design for the new Naabeehó Bich’eekį’ crown came to mind.

In the spring of 2020, just as COVID-19 was hitting the Navajo Nation, Teec Nos Pos master weaver, fiber artist and sheep herder Roy Kady and his grandson Tyrrell Tapaha collaborated on something very special – the first ever Churro wool and hemp blend traditional Navajo weaving titled “May beauty be restored.”