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...Harvard University Native American Program has appointed Shelly C. Lowe as its new executive director, effective beginning in July. Lowe is a member of the Navajo Nation and is currently an assistant dean at Yale College and the director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University. Carmen Lopez, also of the Navajo Nation, was the last HUNAP executive director, and her departure last year prompted a national search for her replacement. Associate Director for Recruitment and Student Affairs Steven Abbott has assumed the duties of the HUNAP Executive Director for the past year, according to Bryant Bonner...
Move over, organic, fair trade and free range--the latest in enlightened edibles is here: food with "embedded" positive intentions. While the idea isn't new--cultures like the Navajo have been doing it for centuries--for-profit companies in the U.S. and Canada are catching on, infusing products with good vibes through meditation, prayer and even music. Since 2006, California company H2Om has sold water infused with wishes for "love," "joy" and "perfect health" via the words, symbols and colors on the label (which "create a specific vibratory frequency," according to co-founder Sandy Fox) and the restorative music...
...numerous best-selling mystery novels about two Navajo policemen, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, portrayed the American Indians of the Southwest with accuracy, color and affection. Hillerman, who died Oct. 26 at 83, was the first popular author to consistently write about the Navajo as fully rounded characters. Over 18 novels, starting with 1970's The Blessing Way, he portrayed the Navajo with good traits and bad, as heroic and villainous, just as novelists had written about people of other races and cultures. He understood that Navajo are not the primitives depicted in old western movies, and he wanted...
...America for the Best Novel of the year (Dance Hall of the Dead) in 1974, and in 1991 he received the highest award the organization can bestow: the title Grand Master for lifetime achievement. Yet the honor that brought him greatest pleasure was given to him by the Navajo Tribal Council when they named him a Special Friend of the Dineh (Navajo...
...perfect, a sentiment that is reflected in their heterogeneous art. Bailey sells a “nice” piece of art for an average of $320 to $500, but prices at the exhibit ranged from $7.00 to several thousand dollars, depending on their workmanship. McLaughlin said that Navajo rugs are particularly expensive because they are made holistically—artists often raise sheep to obtain the wool for the rugs. Bailey said she takes a small commission on her sales to pay costs such as her RV, which she uses to travel around the country. Her vehicle, which...