SHIPROCK, New Mexico—Bertha Etsitty spoke in the Navajo language about using traditional cooking methods to mix blue corn meal, water and ash from burned branches and needles of the juniper tree into ...

Order is direct result of Farmington High incident; school issues apology Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren signed an executive order Friday calling on schools – on and off the reservation – to allow ...

The possibility that states might decriminalize the general use of peyote is raising concerns among Indigenous practitioners, who employ the cactus in traditional settings like the Native American ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - When young women head off to compete in the weeklong Miss Navajo Nation pageant, they bring along their evening gowns, jewelry, high heels, public speaking skills — and their ...

In early May 1996, newspapers in Utah and New Mexico reported that two Navajo women, Sarah Begay and her 96 year-old mother, Irene Yazzie, were in their house in Rocky Ridge, Ariz. when they heard ...

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