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One of the best aspects of travel is stumbling on interesting stories. I discovered one highlighting Native American history ...
Spencer travels six times a year from her home at the Navajo Indian Reservation, Wide Ruins area, in Arizona to share her work. Spencer specializes in the Wide Ruins and Burntwater Navajo rug designs.
The Navajo believe that dawn is the most sacred time of the day. But as daylight broke across the University of Arizona campus, tragedy struck one Navajo student.
Veterans' Day celebrations on Wednesday included tributes to American Indian "code talkers" -- those who encrypted battle communications to U.S. troops during World War II operations in the Pacific.
The dubbed version of the movie will entertain fans on 'Star Wars' Day, otherwise known as May the Fourth (be with you).
Law student Ivan Gamble has been hiking and biking across the vast Navajo Nation reservation in order to win support for a constitution. He wants to hold a constitutional convention to draft a ...
The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose case was emblematic of a movement launched to draw attention to an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women was convicted of first-degree murder in her ...
John Kinsel Sr., who died Oct. 19 at the age of 107, was one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, a group of Marines who developed and deployed a code that became a critical form of ...
(TNS) — Navajo Technical University will develop a bachelor’s degree program in computer science using a four-year grant from the American Indian College Fund. The university was one of four ...
Life on the Navajo Indian Reservation is anything but easy. Many of the cabins and huts on the reservation have no electricity or running water, and food is sca ...
A Transitional blanket by an unidentified Navajo artist, circa 1890-1910, is part of the "Color Riot! How Color Changes Navajo Textiles" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Loretta Christensen, Navajo Area chief medical officer at the Indian Health Service about the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on Native Americans.