Navajo Craft Meets Smart Tech
CHARLES C. LYNCH doesn’t consider himself a stylish man. “I don’t wear a lot of jewelry myself,” admits the owner of Bilasáana, an Apple Watch band and accessories maker in Farmington. “I wear Levi’s…
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Tag: Navajo
2025 True Heroes: Violet Lucero
THE CEDAR BEAMS of Violet Lucero’s loom stretch across a room that should be too small to hold it. Tools handmade by her father and bundles of wool yarn rest nearby. At the heart of this world of…
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Weaving Stories at the Crownpoint Rug Auction
DELBERT AUTRY POINTS TO A potential buyer from the stage at the Crownpoint Navajo Rug Auction. A young man in the crowd just bid $1,200 for a dazzling three-by-five-foot Storm Pattern weaving, but…
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Faces of the Fair: Rodeo Queen Kaitlyn Maria
K AITLYN MARIA TRAINED with her horse for just six months—yet still made history. The 20-year-old Belén electrician became one of the first Navajo women crowned New Mexico State Fair Rodeo Queen by…
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Lyndon Tsosie’s Design Mind
L YNDON TSOSIE PARTIED THROUGH his early adulthood and then found his calling in the pages of Dexter Cirillo’s Southwestern Indian Jewelry. The book cost $65, and Tsosie had $75 in his pocket for…
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Delbert Anderson Traces His Musical Roots
“THIS IS VERY LIKELY only the second time a Diné trumpeter has performed this piece,” Delbert Anderson tells a hushed audience from the stage at El Morro Theatre, in Gallup, earlier this year. Then he…
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Join the Navajo Tea Party
A HOT-PINK COLD-DRINK oasis flowers among the wafting scents of roasted corn and frybread at the northwest corner of the Gallup Flea Market. Among the 500-plus vendors of jewelry, crafts, antiques…
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Reactions to Hwéeldi Mural
ABSORBING EVEN A FRACTION of the harrowing story of the Long Walk—the U.S. Army’s forced removal of thousands of Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache) people to the Bosque Redondo Indian…
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The Face of Art’s Next Generation
AT 17, MARY HELEN BROWN creates breathtaking paintings and jewelry that have made her a rising star in the art world. Her accolades include a best of division award from the Heard Museum Guild Indian…
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Tin Ta'Neesk'áník'qzhí Chiiłchin Yik'ání Bił (Piccadilly)
This recipe originally appeared in "Diné Dining" by Andi Murphy…
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