Navajo food traditions aim to revive historic Southwest peach orchards and farming practices. Reagan Wytsalucy works to restore these traditions, highlighting their cultural and dietary significance.

Diné College has evolved, teaching Navajo traditions but also preparing young people for careers in critical fields, like STEM and health care.

Among Indigenous peoples of the Americas, from Navajo Nation down to the rainforests of Brazil, events like the annular eclipse on Saturday have important and distinctive cultural meanings.

This weekend’s solar eclipse will gather many spectators across the U.S. However, for some cultures such as the Navajo tradition, indigenous people are encouraged to be inactive.

The Navajo tribe views the eclipse as a taboo, seeing the sun as a father figure and an eclipse as its death, according to the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville.

The Navajo women were asked to speak at EIU by Pat McCallister, a professor in the EIU School of Family and Consumer Sciences. McCallister met the family while on her sabbatical in Santa Fe, N.M.

Walking in Two Worlds In 2017, when a total solar eclipse traveled across the United States, an estimated 88% of American adults observed the event in some way. The experience differed in Navajo ...

East Grand Forks students learn about Navajo tribal traditions during Indigenous Peoples Day “I’m almost sure you’ll never get an opportunity to see this again,” Dennis Rogers said.

“Miss Navajo Nation – she’s the bridge between the generations of the old and the young,” says Amy Naazbah Reeves-Begaye, 26, who was selected as queen in 2023 and reigned until the end of ...

Travelers seeking to explore Navajo traditions and culture can now stay in a hogan, a traditional dwelling, within the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, or Tse’Bii’Ndzisgaii.

As a Navajo herbalist and entrepreneur, Virginia Boone has learned to walk a fine line. In her youth, Boone learned Navajo traditions and language while living with her family off the reservation.