Shepherd's Cross in Claremore is handing down the art of Navajo weaving. As students learn how to weave a Navajo rug, they also learn the history behind it. "We're losing a lot of these older ...

Every morning, students in the sprawling San Juan School District in Utah place their right hands over their hearts and recite a pledge. Despite two centuries of reasons not to honor the American flag ...

Rena Dunn teaches BYU's only Navajo language classes. 'People that have studied Navajo say that it's one of the few complete languages,' she said. (BYU Photo) BYU Navajo teacher Rena Dunn and junior ...

Denise Jensen teaches New Mexico History and Navajo Culture at Navajo Preparatory School, in the northwest corner of New Mexico. The private, International Baccalaureate college-prep school ...

ST. MICHAELS, Ariz. (AP) - Students on the country’s largest Native American reservation spoke to first lady Jill Biden on April 23 about challenges they’ve faced during the coronavirus pandemic, ...

When Eli Lev accepted a teaching position at a little middle school out in the heart of the Navajo Nation’s vast desert, he wasn’t quite prepared for the culture-shock awaiting him. “Going from green ...

Bluff • “Start from silence!” third grade teacher Sarah Burak repeats, raising her voice above the din of 10 elementary school students playing traditional Native American wooden flutes. Her class, ...

STAR School was recently awarded a $1 million federal grant to expand its Navajo language curriculum through hiring new instructors to lead an immersion-based curriculum. The school -- a public ...

Marie Pino fondly referred to the students she taught as “shí yázhí,” a Navajo phrase that means “my children.” She didn’t just know their names, she also knew their families. In many cases, she’d ...

Clayton Long is reviving the Navajo language -- in part by translating the Pledge of Allegiance for kids in his Utah school district, a portion of which is a Navajo reservation. Justin Merriman Every ...

Every morning, students in the sprawling San Juan School District in Utah place their right hands over their hearts and recite a pledge. Despite two centuries of reasons not to honor the American flag ...