Arts

To influence the children who encircled him on Saturday morning to ask him more questions about his na’ashó’ii dich’ízhii painting and his work, Daniel Josley smeared his face with blue paint as though it were war paint.

In 1997 contemporary Diné painter Peterson Yazzie won the high school art contest held by Northland Pioneer College, which earned him a scholarship to the school and eventually led him to become a teacher. Now the two-dimensional art instructor and faculty member helps run the same annual art competition at the college.

Female silversmith makes elegant jewelry to accentuate wearer

In July 1979, more than 1,000 tons of solid radioactive mill waste and 93 million gallons of acidic, radioactive tailings solution flowed into the Puerco River from the United Nuclear Corporation in Church Rock, New Mexico.