What started as a mission trip to New Mexico for Charlene Rees turned out to be the answer to the prayers of two Navajo women. Rees, as part of the Nehemiah Prayer Network, went on a mission trip with ...

Introduction -- Three generations of Navajo women -- Navajo women's lives in historical and cultural context -- Navajo women and education -- Navajo women's transition to the labor force -- The family ...

About 30 years ago, doctors in an Indian Health Service clinic in Tuba City, Arizona, told Jamescita Peshlakai that her health would be at risk if she continued her pregnancy. Peshlakai, who is a ...

Truth be told, two pages into this new book on the lives of contemporary Navajo women, I was about to send it back to Tucson Weekly headquarters to be swapped out for a new assignment: It was too ...

Checklists on notecards and a speech outlining her platform, written in Navajo (Dine) language, sit on the desk of contestant Crystal Littleben at the St. Michael's Mission parish house-- where the ...

All eyes were cast on the six young women competing. Cheers erupted as they came out, waved to the crowds and took their spots by large wooden butchering stands, tied-up sheep close by. Behind them ...

In August 1912, Frances “Franc” Johnson descended from the train she had boarded in Wisconsin onto Gallup, New Mexico’s steamy desert asphalt. She was on her way to the Fort Defiance Indian School, a ...

POLITICAL SPLIT HAPPENING IN WINDOW ROCK. THE APPARENTLY CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NAVAJO NATION’S TOP LEADERS GROWING EVEN MORE SO. PRESIDENT BEAU NYGREN ANNOUNCING HIS VICE PRESIDENT ...