Culture

When hiking here in the middle of the Navajo Nation, you stumble upon small, surprising, beautiful things in the middle of nowhere.

Jean Whitehorse had often heard her grandmother beg in the Navajo language for the return of her old name. One day Whitehorse asked the 96-year-old woman what her name had been.

In these days of polarization, “I feel the largest indigenous group in North America should be leading the way in coming together,” he said. “We should be supporting our people in a holistic way, equipping each other to face life’s challenges.”

Everybody knows him as Supaman but his birth name is Christian Parrish Takes the Gun, Apsaalooke (Crow), from Montana.

Staff assistant works to promote traditional ways