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 a purple velvet blouse ...

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In “Long Line of Ladies,” the Karuk people celebrate a girl’s first period in a coming-of-age ceremony. In “Long Line of Ladies,” the Karuk people celebrate a girl’s first period in a ...

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

Pandemic: The deadly loss of Navajo women On the Navajo Nation, the coronavirus leaves children motherless, families lost and traditions in peril – but Diné women fight on ...