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The Navajo word “hozho” is often heard in political, medical or spiritual settings.

It’s hard to get a big head when you have Navajo friends to take you down a notch, Jeremiah Bitsui discovered.

More than 100 spelling bee contenders from across Western Navajo competed last Thursday for spots of moving on to the Navajo Nation Scripps Spelling Bee.

Coins poured out of boxes and clinked as they hit the tables in Joyce Tsinajinnie’s third grade classroom.

Medals made tiny clinking sounds as Miss Ramah Navajo walked. Attached to the end of her sash belt were two of her brother’s Special Olympic medals.