Life
Community
Navajo agrivoltaics takes shape
Through food deserts and energy challenges, a quiet revolution is taking root where traditional farming meets modern solar technology. Across the Four Corners, researchers and farmers are testing a system called agrivoltaics that combines crop cultivation with solar energy production as a path toward food independence.
Culture
Kinship in color: Marwin Begaye’s vision at the Wheelwright Museum
The Diné concept of k’é takes vivid form in “Visualizing K’é: New Works by Marwin Begaye,” a major exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian that has been drawing steady crowds since its June opening.
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‘Rides for the Res’, Cowtown S.K.A.T.E. collaborates with Diné community
A nonprofit skateboard company was in the Four Corners area to share new wheels.
People
Honoring Jack Soto: Santa Fe celebrates a Diné ballet icon, new scholarship
Jock Soto didn’t see other Native Americans in ballet during his professional career. Soto, who is Diné and Puerto Rican, was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for 24 years, retiring in 2005.
Health
95 years of healing: Sage Memorial Hospital’s journey from mud walls to modern medicine
This year marks the 95th anniversary of Sage Memorial Hospital operating in Ganado, Arizona. The staff of the Navajo Health Foundation, the non-profit that operates Sage Memorial Hospital, is celebrating with an event to honor and explore the history of the institution that began as a four-room adobe mud building and has now grown to a 177 million-dollar, 140,200 square-foot facility with 25 hospital beds that serves more than 25,000 people.
Arts
Echoes of resilience: Diné voices return in ‘Our Livestock Will Never Diminish’
The echoes of the resilient Diné past will soon resonate through the Navajo Nation Museum.
Music
Meet Ryan Blazer, who helps place WNF’s ‘biggest’ headliners
It’s Coachella weekend in 2014, and Ryan Blazer is on Interstate 10 driving to the most notorious music festival on the planet.
Fashion
Tallsalt incorporates Diné designs in contemporary fashion
Fashion designer Shannon Tallsalt, who was one of the many talented designers featured at the Navajo Nation Fair's Ah-Shi Beauty Fashion Showcase, says with a lot of hard work “anything is possible '' when it comes to pursuing your dreams.
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Dewpoint: 46.0 F (7.8 C)
Humidity: 45%
Wind: South at 4.6 MPH (4 KT)
Pressure: 30.34
Dewpoint: 46.0 F (7.8 C)
Humidity: 45%
Wind: South at 4.6 MPH (4 KT)
Pressure: 30.34
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow