Diné actor lands role in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
Don’t get him wrong, Robert Mesa doesn’t mind playing historical characters like Tecumseh (“The Men Who Built America,” 2018).
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Fending for himself: As winter closes in, isolated elder chops wood, survives
At the center of what could be a cozy, warm 70-year-old hogan is a seven-foot log that keeps the roof from caving in on everything Harrison Kee owns.
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Making calls, saving lives: A week in the life of a contact tracer
Within the past year, “PPE,” “N95,” “social distancing,” “comfort baking” and the admonition of the year, “Mute yourself!” have, shall we say, gone viral. There’s also the world’s newest career: contact tracer.
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Nation’s top librarian turns the page on an epic chapter
If you were to make a list of the world’s most exciting careers, “librarian” probably wouldn’t even make the top 100. But in Irving Nelson’s 43-year stint with the Navajo Nation Library, he’s battled poisonous spiders, spent hours in an asbestos-ridden basement, walked miles in a blizzard and taken epic cross-country road trips just so you and the rest of the Navajo public can have something good to read.
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Diné photographer recognized for pandemic work
Navajo Times photographer Sharon Chischilly has received a grant from Italian-Cuban photographer Manuello Paganelli recognizing her work documenting the COVID-19 pandemic on the Navajo Nation.
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Dewpoint: 45.0 F (7.2 C)
Humidity: 77%
Wind: West at 9.2 MPH (8 KT)
Pressure: 30.06
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