9-year-old Little Miss Ch’ooshgai honing Diné-speaking skills
The Little Miss Ch’ooshgai Princess is setting her sights on learning Diné Bizaad.
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Imitating Atsá
They imitate the eagle––the birds. Roy Etcitty, who leads the Naat’aanii Nééz Singers of Shiprock, says “anyone” can mimic the birds, but they would have to practice.
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UW alumnus and Diné scientist co-finds Project Enable, a new Navajo-English dictionary for scientific terms
What are the words for bacteria and DNA in the Diné language?
They are ch’osh doo yit’íinii and iiná bitł’óól, respectively.
Project Enable, an online dictionary resource that launched in 2021, has done the work to provide not just one translation but 250 scientific terms and concepts from English into Navajo.
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‘Little Sister’ to retire soon
The Little Sister Rug served as a backdrop during the Navajo Nation Inauguration at the Bee Hółdzil Fighting Scouts Events Center in Fort Defiance Jan. 10.
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Young weavers set out to revitalize Diné culture
This part of the Navajo Nation has been an area that has produced some well-known weavers generation over generation.
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