FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A zoo on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation has eliminated its snake exhibit because cultural beliefs about the reptiles as bad omens were deterring visitors from ...

During her childhood on the Navajo reservation, Naomi Jean Young was taught never to kill anything unnecessarily. When she was required to kill animals for research in the surgery department of the ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation's opposition to capital punishment is in the spotlight following recent outcry for New Mexico to reinstate it in cases of child killings. The mother of an ...

The title of this collection of linked essays—about a smart, sensitive white boy growing up in the Navajo Nation in the 1980s and ’90s—is a partial answer to a question that the young author is asked ...

When Louvannina Tsosie walked into The Door Christian Fellowship Church in Gallup, New Mexico, she expected the kind of church service she had growing up: worship, music, a sermon, prayer and some ...