In a time where many Indigenous languages are endangered, two University of Wisconsin affiliates are working to bring new life to the Navajo language by developing science terms that previously did ...
Navajo code talkers used their language to devise a code that helped America win WWII. Many Native American children were punished for speaking their native tongues. The code talkers' legacy is an ...
Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...
The group of Navajo speakers gathered in Flagstaff, Arizona, were deep into translating the pages stacked in front of them when they began deliberating over how to best describe fentanyl. It wouldn't ...
To his peers in Shiprock, New Mexico, he was known as “the detective.” As a kid, he was always asking questions, wondering how things worked and why. “That’s probably where (my love of science) ...
A Navajo scientist couldn't translate his work to family. So he created a project to bridge the gap.
Growing up in the Navajo tradition, there was a distance between science and the culture. Project ENABLE was created to make scientific information accessible to Navajo communities. The Project ENABLE ...
Students from the Department of Linguistics and the Department of American Indian Studies wrote and directed a play, “Hai Dooleeł,” in the Diné language and showcased it Friday, Nov. 30, in the Social ...
Jaa’ii! Are you listening? Despite literally meaning “ears” in the Navajo language, jaa’ii refers to someone who hears but isn’t actively listening. That’s one of many colloquial terms unique to the ...
FARMINGTON, N.M. -- "Ya'at eeh," George Werito says, greeting thousands of radio listeners across the Navajo reservation in their native language, Diné. He has callers on the line, waiting. People ...
NOW. OUR DRIVE RUNS THROUGH THE 21ST. AS WE KNOW, NAVAJO CODE TALKERS PLAYED A VITAL ROLE DURING WORLD WAR TWO. AND AS WE CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, SASHA LENNINGER EXPLAINS HOW THEY ...
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A tipi is set up in preparation for a peyote ceremony at a home in Window Rock, the Navajo Nation capital. Photograph: Rick Findler Rick Findler, photographer and Joan Wakelin bursary recipient, ...
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