Miss Navajo adds butchering to her resume
Miss Navajo Nation Shaandiin Parrish on Friday walked up a small hill to where she taught Oak Springs Chapter youth employees how to butcher.
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‘Heal the people, protect the sacred’: Dream leads to creation of jingle-dress project
As the coronavirus outbreak moved across the U.S. last year, Eugene Tapahe had a dream he was sitting in a grass field at Yellowstone National Park when ‘ayání walked up on the horizon against a Big Sky sunset.
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Honoring volunteers: Paying tribute to hosts of All-American Indian Days, Miss Indian America
Sheridan, Wyoming, in the 1950s was said to be the most racist city in the U.S. Signs hung in store windows and in other western towns reading, “No Indians allowed.” That history began to change when tribal leaders like Joseph Medicine Crow and Donald Deernose from the Crow Nation joined Sheridan town leaders to put an end to the prejudice and discrimination.
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Tiny tuber ‘rematriated’ to Indigenous farmers
Kyle Jim normally grows corn, beans, squash, and other rooted vegetables at his three-acre farm in Shiprock along the San Juan River.
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Book on traditional teachings plows new ground
It’s hard to imagine a more scrutinized, more written-about people than the Diné.
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