Working the wool
Spin-off helps Diné weave traditional skills into busy lives
Read MoreAuthor: Cindy Yurth
Spin-offs help Diné reclaim culture
The Navajo Nation Museum hosts “spinoffs” — days for working on weaving, knitting or other wool projects — the third Saturday of every month except May and June.
Read MoreBordertown car salesman gets 6 years for defrauding customers
A shady car salesman from Holbrook, Arizona, whom Navajos had been complaining about for years, was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of fraudulent schemes and artifices, a Class II felony.
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Teacher’s firing raises ire in Many Farms
About 40 teachers, students and parents mobbed a school board meeting at Many Farms High School March 13 to protest the firing of a popular math teacher who had refused to change the grade of a school board member’s grandson so he could play sports.
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Diné craftswomen hold forth in NC museum
Back in 1989, a young man named Roger Manley came to the Navajo Nation and struck up a friendship with Mary Keahey, whose mother was one of the women who wove the huge rug in Chilchinbeto, Arizona, known as “Shimá” (“My Mother”).
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Humidity: 25%
Wind: Southwest at 12.7 MPH (11 KT)
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Dewpoint: 25.0 F (-3.9 C)
Humidity: 25%
Wind: Southwest at 12.7 MPH (11 KT)
Pressure: 30.27
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow