Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned ...
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The Treaty that Reversed a Removal—the Navajo Treaty of 1868—Goes on View
“This treaty represents [that] we are a nation. Negotiations occurred to allow the Navajo to return to the Four Sacred Mountains in Diné Bí Kéyah (Navajo Land). This treaty represents we will ...
Arizona Mirror8d
‘This is where we came from’: Tribe battles uranium transport through ancestral lands
Havasupai elders fight to protect sacred Red Butte Mountain as uranium mine begins hauling ore past ancestral lands near ...
PBS6y
Biography: Spirituality Is A Way Of Life
The Navajo refer to themselves as the Diné, or The People. According to their own history, the Diné have always lived between the four sacred mountains which reside in the four sacred directions ...
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Horses are Sacred: A View from the Nohooká Dine’
The Dine’ (Navajo) people reside in their innate homeland, within four cardinal sacred mountains, encompassing portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. It is from this spiritual center that ...
Chicago Tribune1mon
A journey into 5,000 years of history at Canyon de Chelly national monument in northeast Arizona
Finally, the Diné, the term the Navajo use to describe themselves and their language, settled in the canyon — between the four sacred mountains of their creation story. A tour in an off-road ...
EPA targets uranium waste on the Navajo Nation, adding Lukachukai mines to Superfund list
Adding the Lukachukai Mountains mines to the Superfund list unlocks more federal funding to clean up contaminated uranium ...