FLAGSTAFF — Manuelito Wheeler did not join millions of sci-fi fans who packed into movie theaters in May 1977 to see the original “Star Wars.” He was only 7 and living with his family in remote Window ...

On March 19–20, members of the 25th Navajo Nation Council joined Diné Action Plan (DAP) Task Force leaders and community ...

There is a coffee cup in Linda Myers' office with the saying ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR HEART. This is a story about doing that. She was 35 years old in 1986, working in the art shop she leased on Park City ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...

The editor of an updated Indigenous language dictionary says he hopes the resource will help spur more language learning. "It's a real resource for people who want to learn the language," said Robert ...

Navajo code talkers played a vital role during World War II by using their language to send tactical messages. These men were the secret weapon that helped win the Pacific, not through guns or ...

The Navajos are no vanishing tribe. Second in numbers only to the Cherokees, they have increased tenfold in the last 150 years, now number 50,000 (total of U. S. Indian population: 351,000). They live ...

THE preservation of the language of a dying race is a duty which ought never to be neglected. The late General Mainwaring had an intimate acquaintance with the language of the Lepchas of the Sikkim ...

In the 2025 film “Finding Hózhó” by Travis Holt Hamilton, a 70-year old Navajo veteran faces internal struggles introduced by his terminally ill and abusive father. From screenplay to screen, this ...

FLAGSTAFF - Keith Little envisioned a place that would house the stories of the Navajo Code Talkers and where people could learn more about the famed World War troops who used their native language as ...

The Newberry Library’s exhibit “Native Pop!,” which premiered March 20, explores how Indigenous people have shaped popular culture. The exhibit draws from the Newberry’s various Indigenous studies ...