Every spring and summer, after the winter thaw allows, about a dozen Navajo families still return to their old homesteads at the bottom of Arizona's Canyon de Chelly. The canyon has cradled human ...

As polling places open around this country on Nov. 2, for the midterm elections, members of the country's largest Native American tribe — the Navajo nation — will be voting to elect a new Navajo ...

Navajo scholars will soon begin writing and editing a Navajo Nation government textbook to be taught at the high school level, the first such book written by Diné authors for Diné students. In 2023, ...

Bill Donovan, a prolific journalist who covered the Navajo Nation for five decades at newspapers in New Mexico and Arizona, has died. He was 76. Donovan recently was hospitalized with pneumonia and ...

Happy Native American Heritage Month! Each November, Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in the United States. While many Native Americans like to say we celebrate being Native Americans year ...

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OF THEIR HOMELAND. HERE’S TODD KURTZ. THIS IS A BRUTAL STORY TO HEAR. IT’S HARD TO EVEN FATHOM WHAT NAVAJO PEOPLE ENDURED LEADING UP TO THE LONG WALK. HISTORIANS SAY KIT CARSON WAS ORDERED TO DEFEAT ...

Things were looking up last year at pandemic-battered Navajo Nation parks like Monument Valley. Then their lifeblood, foreign ...

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Covered efforts to reform tribal government and a deadly riot at the tribal capital FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Bill Donovan, a prolific journalist who covered the Navajo Nation for five decades at newspapers ...