CORTEZ – The Navajo for generations have created sand paintings for use in sacred ceremonies. Diné artist Bento Yazzie has a unique take on the art form, but he struggles to describe what it’s like to ...

In Mrs. Ullrich and Miss Parlavecchio’s Social Studies class at the Frank K. Hehnly School in Clark , the fifth grade students created their own versions of a Navajo Sand Painting. After having ...

Navajo weaver Roy Kady will give a talk at 6 p.m. today at the National Museum of Wildlife Art as the exhibition “A ...

According to legend, the Navajo Indians learned art from their gods. The gods painted lasting pictures on buckskin, but they told the Navajos to make sand-paintings and destroy them as soon as they ...

Eugene Joe is a Diné sand art painter from Shiprock, New Mexico. Eugene comes from a family of sand painters and has spent 50 years as an artist. His work reflects his Diné culture and includes ...

ALBUQUERQUE — Not many people have been to Coyote Canyon, a remote spot on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation. Bordered by sandstone outcroppings and dotted with piñon and juniper, the ...

The Navajo Nation is being buried in sand. A third of that land is now covered with sand dunes as a result of climate change. Roads carouse for livestock; even entire homes have been enveloped, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Not many people have been to Coyote Canyon, a remote spot on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation. Bordered by sandstone outcroppings and dotted with pinon and ...