True Heroes 2023: Mattee Jim
WITH MORE THAN 25 YEARS of experience working in social justice for the Indigenous LGBTQ+ community, Mattee Jim (Diné) has spearheaded change by speaking up for the people she represents with…
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Tag: Diné
Stuffed Game Hens with Mole and Navajo Kneel Down Bread
This recipe originally appeard in "From Seed to Harvest" by Marianne Sundquist…
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A Diné Chef Shares Food for Thought
WHEN I ARRIVE, WALTER WHITEWATER is already in the kitchen. He asks if I want coffee or if he can make me an egg. He refreshes his knife blade on a sharpening steel before resuming the work in front…
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Kymon Greyhorse Returns to His Roots
AT JUST 23, Kymon Greyhorse (Diné/Tongan) has already made waves in the movie world. Months after graduating from the University of New Mexico with degrees in film and digital arts, the director…
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Grab a Slice at Victoria's Pizza
FOR 15 YEARS, Diné restaurateur Victoria Largo worked out of a small food trailer parked in front of her blue two-story house, in the center of Crownpoint. The Victoria’s Pizza space was just big…
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What We're Reading: The Half White Album
“SOME CRITICS SAY you should never start or even use a dream in a story,” writes Cynthia J. Sylvester (Diné) in The Half-White Album (UNM Press), “but I’m awake now and pretending that it wasn’t a…
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A Brief Timeline of Native History
850: First great houses built at Pueblo Bonito and Una Vida in Chaco Canyon. 1050: Chaco culture reaches its height. 1068–1072: First Chacoan structures built at what is now called Salmon Ruins. 1105:…
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Ancient Enigmas
IN THE 17TH CENTURY, the Four Corners region turned cruel. Chaco’s Ancestral Puebloan people had fled three centuries earlier, their elaborate social structure abandoned as the culture’s various…
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Cultural Vocabulary Lesson
Navajo people use the name Diné to describe themselves. The Bureau of Land Management area with Navajo defensive sites is called the Dinétah by archaeologists. In the Diné language, Dinétah refers…
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True Heroes 2022: Mary Ann Cortese
EXCITEMENT OVERTOOK MARY ANN CORTESE as she watched the first display go up in the empty Treaty Room at the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site. The larger-than-life photograph…
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