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KUSD Cultural Center Native Language Talent Show highlights

Winslow Unified School District is in the process of evaluating new curricula for the upcoming 2023/2024 school year.

"Tucker-helped clean up the gym without being asked, Elayton assisted with classroom clean up, Kassidy helped organize a classmate's desk area, and Julion for including others in soccer," the school said in the post.

In November 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced that it had received applications from Nature and People First...

Diné College has announced its upcoming annual golf tournament fundraiser to support scholarships for Navajo students.

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Walt Disney Pictures released a trailer for its new film Peter Pan & Wendy, featuring Alyssa Wapanatâhk (Bigstone Cree Nation) on Feb. 28.

Change Labs welcomes new cohort of 12 Indigenous entrepreneurs who want to change how business is done.

Maurice Crandall, a member of the Yavapai Apache Nation and a history professor at Arizona State University, presented a special program titled, "After the Whirlwind: Yavapai-Apache Scouts and the Worlds They Made" at the Natural History Institute in Prescott.

NAU School of Communication is accepting applications for the 2023 Andy Harvey Indigenous Youth Media Workshop that will be held from June 25 to July 1.

The Heard Museum hosted its 33rd World Hoop Dance Contest this past weekend in historic fashion.

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PETRIFIED FOREST, Ariz. — Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO) announced the discovery of the world’s oldest caecilian, Funcusvermis gilmorei (pronounced funk-us ver-mis), from the park’s 220 million year old Triassic Chinle Formation last month in the journal Nature by researchers from the National Park Service, Virginia Tech and the University of Washington.

Growing up as a deaf person on the Navajo Nation, Colin Denny often felt isolated.

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Imagine putting on a virtual reality headset and entering a world where you can explore communities, like Missoula, except your character, and everyone you interact with, speaks Salish, Cheyenne or Blackfoot. Imagine having a device like Amazon’s Alexa that understands and speaks exclusively in Indigenous languages.

L.A. Williams, program manager at Diné College's KXWR (92.1) radio station, has been honored with induction into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame (NAIAHF).

On Feb. 8, Navajo Nation First Lady Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren welcomed over a hundred high school students from across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah for the 17th Annual SkillsNative competition.

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Navajo artist Randy Barton was on the big stage Feb. 5. On Sunday, his art work was on the big game.

WUSD students moving on to compete in Navajo County Spelling Bee.

Macy’s has recently launched the Shash Diné Hotel Collection, a limited-edition array of home pieces created for Macy’s and curated by Navajo designer Baya Meehan.

Prescott College Alumna Tillie Walton hosted a screening at Prescott College Jan. 27 for a new documentary series that highlights her experiences of river exploration in the American West, and the importance of rivers to our way of life. “Wild Rivers with Tillie,” produced and directed by Dan Duncan, will begin airing on public television stations Feb. 1.

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Chinle Planting Hope is among 21 grantees of the Equity in STEAM Initiative 2.0 cohort recently recognized by Intel Corporation, YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix, and Salt River Project.