Culture

It’s hard to imagine a more scrutinized, more written-about people than the Diné.

The Navajo Cultural Arts Program has grown in size and reputation since its inception in 2015. So much so, established and award-winning rug weavers like Zefren-M, whose given name is Ephraim Anderson, and Sue Begay, became students of the program.

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.