Word: navajos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ethel B. Branch '01, whose mother is Navajo and whose father is part Spanish-Mexican, part Basque and part French, went to an all Native-American grade school in Arizona...
Weaving is a simple, sedentary activity--you just sit at a loom and pull the weft through the warp--right? Wrong. It's complex, strenuous and, Navajo weavers say, mystical. "Weaving is your thought," says Pearl Sunrise, who teaches a $355, five-day workshop at the Taos Institute of Arts in New Mexico. "You need to use your motor skills, your psychological being and your spirituality." Emily Hyatt of North Carolina has been weaving all her life and has a business educating schoolchildren about the history of the craft. But in Pearl's class she was a beginner again. Previously...
...Navajo courts are found not to have jurisdiction, then it is still not clear who does, Singer said...
According to Wenona T. Singel, a third-year student at HLS who is vicechair of the Native American Law Students Association, part of the problem lies in misconceptions about the Navajo judicial process...
...People need to recognize that the jurisprudence of the Navajo Supreme Court incorporates Navajo tradition, practice and common law rather than relying on strictly American law," Singel said...