Culture

Author and filmmaker Brian Younghas invented a new genre, the “contemporary Navajo hero story,” to describe his book. He had to invent it, because when he was growing up, he looked for it and it wasn’t there.

The Arizona Snowbowl on Dook’o’oosłííd is one of the best ski destinations in the Southwest. But the mountain, with plentiful t’iisbáí and eye-catching vistas, is much more than that to at least 13 Native American tribes.

NASA is honoring Diné Bizaad through the names of different features found by the Mars Perseverance rover that landed in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater on Feb. 18.

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission on March 11 announced Diné Bizaad is being used to name landmarks and features in a place with a high potential for finding signs of past microbial life.

It was a January afternoon in Table Top Wilderness, located 32 miles south of Phoenix, a region of flat-topped mesas, wide canyons, and desert ridges.