The medicine man guides the girl’s sponsor, her paternal grandmother, as she ceremoniously removes all the turquoise jewelry Kieloh is wearing, washes it in a bowl and sets the jewelry aside ...

When a Girl’s First Period Calls for Celebration, Not Stigma In “Long Line of Ladies,” the Karuk people celebrate a girl’s first period in a coming-of-age ceremony. Video by Rayka ...

On the Navajo Nation, women are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 because of poor health care, poverty, trauma and high rates of illnesses.

Sandia National Laboratories diversity workforce specialist Marie Capitan with her daughter during the Kinaalda ceremony, a celebration of womanhood in the Navajo tradition.

Leaphorn's niece celebrates her Kinaaldá while he retrieves the bodies of the murder victims; Manuelito and Chee investigate the whereabouts of the missing Mormon family.

LUPTON – Hours before the sun will conquer the dark, a light rain falls, burning wood crackles and soft voices drift from a hogan. An 11-year-old Navajo girl, dressed in ...