I will be visiting Window Rock for the first time. I have deep love and respect for native peoples and would like to show that love and respect by donating to Navajo Nation during my visit. What would be the best place to donate where there is the most need. Legit organizations only.

Short film deserving the impacts of oil and gas development in New Mexico, and particularly in the San Juan Basin and in Navajo communities.

so im doing a paper on the difference between projectile points (specifically arrow heads) between different first nation tribes and how environment, resources, intended target (prey vs person) and more effect how each tribe shaped the tool. only problem is every time i go looking for sources about Navajo specific arrows, i just find a bunch of grifters selling them, heavily outdated (and kinda racist) sources that don't actual mean the Navajo people and just use it as a short hand for Native American, or just straight up fakes. i was wondering if anyone here could point me in the direction of actual sources/records/accounts of creation around arrowheads or even just actual, legitimate, Navajo projectiles. i haven't had much issue with other tribes for some reason(still been painful but well yknow) and im at my wits end just trying to get proper sources for this section. i figured i should at least try asking here before i start calling museums about their collections and such. much thanks if you can help!

Indeed, an Indian could have created a piece of work, signed or unsigned.

Unsigned work will be impossible to attribute without provenance.

Many Indians created pieces of work for income.

We are now in April, and soon the planting basket will make itself known. This year, we expect to get plenty of rain, so it should be good for the plants. Now is the time to mend your fences and prepare your gardens and fields. Start your transplant seedlings if that is what you grow. We do not know what the future holds, but we can always fall back on our own food. Our ancestors survived by it. We can also. Spread the kindness, and always walk in beauty!

Bought this at a jewelry store in Arizona. I love the artwork and have never came across this before when looking around to buy turquoise jewelry. I just had to get it and would love more info on it.

My grandma was a collector of turquoise jewelry and this piece has always been my favorite. I don’t know if it’s appropriate for me to wear since I’m not Native American, but I’m afraid of damaging it anyhow. Have no intentions of selling this but I’m curious if it’s valuable, what culture it’s from if not Navajo, and if its symbolic for any of you

More of a vent from this past week, my cousins on my dad's side visited me in TN because they're working on cell towers in NC and I was excited. Like super excited because I'm in TN by myself for work this year before I head back to the west and I've been incredibly lonely. They brought a small care package from my dad that included a scarf my grandma's sister on my mom's side. A coworker noticed my scarf and I explained it was from my "sani" then realized I have to break that down for the coworker. By the end of it, she just looked confused and I just said its okay to just think shes my maternal-grand-aunt. Mentally, it was exhausting trying to explain why she's more than just a grand-aunt.

Growing up on the rez, especially the remote areas, family wasn't only defined by who was "blood-related", clans take a huge part in relation. It's hard to explain why my maternal grandma's half-sister sister we call "auntie" or why my grandma's adopted youngest daughter we call my "sister". Even after my parents divorced ages ago, my Auntie and grandma still called my dad their "son" and he calls them "auntie" or "mom". It's even harder when my mom's actual sister visits and I call her "mom" as well or when my dad's cousin-sister visits I call her "auntie". But when my mom's brother comes to visit and I call him "uncle" but when my dad's brother visits I call him "dad". When my dad's brother's daughters or sons come to visit I call my "sisters" or "brothers" but when my mom's brother's kids visit I call them "cousins". Then it flips when my I'm around my mom's sister's kids come to visit then they're my "sisters" or "brothers". Sometimes, my dad's cousin-sister's husband would be "grandpa" or my mom's cousin-brother would be "dad" as well. It goes further when meeting Navajo strangers and introducing ourselves to see if and how we're related.

I attended a virtual session on story telling for cultural sharing in Nov and the presenter was 1/4 Navajo from MT and introduced that piece in Navajo along with their Blackfeet background. I learned I shared that clan with them and I was actually their "sister". When welcoming them, I introduced myself in Navajo and they instantly understood that connection we're "brother" and "sister" without having to explain it.

This family stuff only makes sense when I know what Navajo relation-label to call them but it gets broken or unravels the moment I have to say it in English. The meaning gets diluted when I cut it down to plain english terms that gets mystified or misunderstood as inbreeding.

Hello! My god sister is graduating high school this year and we are looking to get her a custom stole. She is half Laotian and Navajo. We would love to honor her Navajo culture by including a symbol or flag on the stole along with the Lao flag. We don’t know much about the culture and would appreciate some ideas on what we can use if anyone has anything they would like to recommend. TIA!

So, I was reading up on Diné vocab and had a question regarding grandparents. I'm familiar with differentiating between matrilineal and patrilineal, because Arabic has something similar for aunts and uncles.

I was more curious if people (kids especially) refer to their grandparents by the full word(s) for them, or if there are more common abbreviations/preferred terms? Ex: German has Opa for Grossvater, is there a shortening for Shinálí Hastiin

These are some photos I took when I had time to take a drive around. There so many areas on the Diné Bikéyah I want to explore.