Culture

While many families still throw a kinaaldá for their girls, the boys’ puberty rite gets short-changed.

Spreading out a blanket in her Navajo Language 102 class at the University of New Mexico, Esther Yazzie-Lewis shows how one side depicts a map of all the places the Navajo Code Talkers fought during World War II.

View images from Navajo Times chief photographer Donovan Quintero of the 26th annual World Championship Hoop Dance last weekend at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz.

FORT DEFIANCE In Lydia Fasthorse’s 20-year career, she has learned that many young people may not...