- Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman (born May 27 1925) is an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works. His mystery novels are set in the Four Corners area of New Mexico and Arizona. The protagonists are Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the Navajo tribal police. Lt. Leaphorn was introduced in Hillerman's first novel, "The Blessing Way" (1970). The second book in the series, "Dance Hall of the Dead" (1973), … - Taylor McKenzie
Taylor McKenzie (1931 - April 13, 2007) was the first Navajo medical doctor (since 1958), the Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1999 - 2003, under Kelsey Begaye), and the first Navajo Nation Chief Medical Officer (since 2006). He was married to Betty McKenzie and they had nine children. - Annie Dodge Wauneka
Annie Dodge Wauneka (1910 - 1997) was an influential member of the Navajo Tribe of Native Americans. She worked to improve the heath and education of the Navajo, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson. - Philip Johnston
Philip Johnston was the man who proposed to the United States Marine Corps (USMC) the idea of using the Navajo language as a Navajo code to be used in the Pacific during World War II. He was born in Topeka, Kansas on September 17, 1892 and died in 1978. Philip Johnston was the son of a missionary, William Johnston, who brought his family to Flagstaff, Arizona on September 16, 1896 to missionize to Navajos residing on the western part of the Navajo Reservation. - Manuelito
Manuelito was one of the principle war chiefs of the Navajo people before, during and after the Long Walk Period. Born to Bit'ahni Clan, near the Bear's Ears in southeastern Utah about 1818. As any Navajo, he was known by different names depending upon context. He was Askkii Dighin ('Holy Boy'), Dahaana Baadaane (Son-in-Law of Late Texan), Hastiin Ch'ilhaajin ("Black Weeds") and as Nabaah Jilt'aa (War Chief, "Warrior Grabbed Enemy") to other Diné, … - Jane Dee Hull
Jane Dee Hull (born August 8, 1935) was the second woman to serve as governor of Arizona, and the first woman to be elected to the position. Born Jane Dee Bowersock in Kansas City, Missouri, she graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in education. She taught elementary school in Kansas and in Navajo Nation schools at Chinle, Arizona. She entered politics in 1978 by being elected to the Arizona House of Representatives as a Republican. - Fred Begay
Promotional photo of Dr. Fred Begay distributed as part of a 2004 press release on the occasion of his election to the New York Academy of Sciences. Credit: LeRoy N. Sanchez, Los Alamos National Laboratory.Fred Begay (born 1932), also known as Fred Young or Clever Fox is a Native American nuclear physicist. Begay was born in 1932 at Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation in Colorado. His mother was Navajo and Ute and his father was Navajo. - John Adair
John Adair, born in Memphis, Tennessee. He is best known for work in visual anthropology, but he was also very much involved, and interested in the application of anthropological insights. After serving in World War II, he moved to the University of New Mexico to finish his graduate studies, becoming the University’s first doctoral candidate in anthropology. Adair than moved to Zuni with his pregnant wife Casey and their son. - Irvin Morris
Irvin Morris (1958-) is a Navajo Nation Tobaahi clan author and lecturer at SUNY-Buffalo. He was inspired largely by Anna Lee Walters at the Navajo Community College, and he received his MFA at Cornell University. His work, "From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story" (1997) is a blend of Navajo mythology, history, fictionalized memoir, and Navajo stories. The title is taken from the Navajo creation story about the last of five existing worlds, our own, … - Joe Kieyoomia
Joe Kieyoomia (1925 - 1997) was a Navajo soldier in New Mexico's 200th Coast Artillery unit and was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942. Initially tortured because his captors thought he was Japanese-American (and therefore a traitor), Joe Kieyoomia suffered months of beatings before the Japanese accepted his claim to Navajo ancestry. He survived the Bataan Death March that killed thousands of starved U.S. soldiers. - Everett Ruess
Everett Ruess (1914-1934) was an artist and writer who explored the deserts of the southwest, invariably alone. He was known for cutting linoleum prints of nature and associated with Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange. His prints show scenes from the Monterey Bay coast, the northern California coast near Tomales Bay, the Sierras, Utah, and Arizona. Ruess' father was a Unitarian minister, and the family moved often. - Laura Gilpin
Laura Gilpin (April 22, 1891 in Austin Bluffs, Colorado - November 30, 1979 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American photographer known for her photographs of Native Americans, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo, and her Southwestern landscapes. Her birthplace is sometimes listed as Colorado Springs, which was just south of Austin Bluffs at the time. - John Verkamp
John Verkamp is a veteran and former Republican state senator who ran for the United States Senate in Arizona as a Democrat in 2006. He is descended from the Verkamp family who have operated a store at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park since 1906. John Verkamp was a Republican state senator representing the Flagstaff, Arizona area. He was last elected to that seat in 2000. In 2002, following redistricting in which Flagstaff was removed from its former district, … - Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon (b. Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Arizona, United States, 1977) is an American composer and artist. He is known for being a composer of chamber music as well as being a solo performer of experimental noise music. As an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, … - Edward T. Hall
Edward T. Hall (born May 16 1914) is a respected anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. Born in Webster Groves, Missouri, Hall has taught at the University of Denver, Colorado, Bennington College in Vermont, Harvard Business School, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University in Illinois and others. - Morris Edward Opler
Morris Edward Opler (May 3, 1907 - May 13, 1996), American anthropologist and advocate of Japanese-American civil rights, was born in Buffalo, New York. He was the brother of Marvin Opler, an anthropologist and social psychiatrist. Morris Opler's main anthropological contribution is in the ethnography of Southern Athabaskan peoples (i.e. the Apaches and Navajo), such as the Chiricahua, Mescalero, Lipan, and Jicarilla. His classic work is "An Apache Life-Way". - Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840 - January 14 1882) was a photographer prominent for his work on subjects in the American Civil War and the Western United States. O'Sullivan was born in either Ireland or New York City. As a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady. When the Civil War began in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army and, over the next year, fought in Beaufort, Port Royal, Fort Walker, and Fort Pulaski. - Joseph Yoakum
Joseph Elmer Yoakum (February 20, 1890-December 25, 1972) was a self-taught African-American and Native American artist who drew landscapes in a unique and highly individual style. He was 76 when he started to record his memories in the form of imaginary landscapes, and he produced over 2000 drawings during the last decade of his life. His work is a prime example of outsider art. - Cynthia Tse Kimberlin
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin (born Cynthia Mei-Ling Tse in Ganado, Arizona, United States) is an American ethnomusicologist. She is the Executive Director and Publisher of the Music Research Institute and MRI Press, based in Point Richmond, California. Her primary area of expertise is the music of Africa, in particular Ethiopia and Eritrea. Kimberlin was born on the Navajo Nation, in Ganado, Apache County, … - Solon Toothaker Kimball
Solon Toothaker Kimball (August 12, 1909 - October 12, 1982) was a noted educator and anthropologist. Kimball was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1930, then received a masters degree and Ph.D in social anthropology from Harvard in 1933 and 1936. Kimball did groundbreaking anthropology work concerning family and community in rural Ireland (with Conrad Arensberg) and on the Navajo reservation in the American Southwest. - Victor Papanek
Designer and educator Victor Papanek (1927-1999) was a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. He disapproved of manufactured products that were unsafe, showy, maladapted, or essentially useless. His products, writings, and lectures were collectively considered an example and spur by many designers. Papanek was a philosopher of design and as such he was an untiring, … - Nancy Adair
The younger sister of filmmaker Peter Adair, Nancy Adair was born in New Mexico and raised on the Navajo and Zuni reservations there. She was educated in New York and Washington, DC, and earned her degree at San Francisco State University. Nancy Adair first became aware of her sexuality in 1967, when a lesbian friend invited her to Maud's, a now defunct lesbian bar which at the time was the oldest in San Francisco. - Charles Repenning
Charles Repenning (August 4, 1922, Oak Park, Illinois—January 5, 2005, Lakewood, Colorado) was an American paleontologist and zoologist noted for his work on shrews, fossil rodents, modern pinnipeds and their extinct relatives, the demostylians. He identified and researched the Paleoparadoxia found during the excavation of Stanford Linear Accelerator at Stanford University in California. - Bain Murray
Bain Murray (1926 - Jan, 1993) was a teacher, author and composer with an affinity for vocal music. He received degrees from Oberlin College and Harvard University and taught at both. Beginning in 1966, he headed the Theory-Composition Division of Cleveland State University. Murray wrote numerous song cycles with orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano and organ, over sixty choral works and individual songs, string quartets, a woodwind quintet, trio for flute, cello and piano, … - Robert "tree" Cody
Robert "Tree" Cody (b. Los Angeles, California) is an American performer of the Native American flute. He is also known as an actor, dancer, and educator, and has toured throughout the Americas, Europe, and East Asia. Robert "Tree" Cody is the adopted son of the late Iron Eyes Cody, who adopted Robert and his brother when they were both very young. He is of Dakota and Maricopa heritage and is an enrolled member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. - Francesco Iarlori
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As Defined in the Universe's Dictionary "John M. Gombeda-- No definition found. See Appendix.". - Relda Martinez
hello there, My name is Relda Ann Martinez. I am a proud parent of six children. Five handsome boys and one beautiful daughter, whom I adore and cherish deeply. I live in the place where I grew up. A wonderful community named Haystack. I am currently employed as a Chapter Coordinator for the Baca Chapter House in Prewitt, NM. I like helping people and working with my tribal elders. Luckily, my job allows me to do both. - Abran Chapo
Hello my name is Abran, i am a proud Navajo from a small community called Haystack which is located in New Mexico. Just moved to the city of Phoenix. I am a country guy and enjoyed the outdoor life. I am continuing with my education. A great warrior named Chief Manuelito once said "Education is the Ladder" to the next generation of his people. My family and educaiton is my priority. - Brenda
Ya'at'eeh...Brenda Benally-Wilson yiniishye. I'm of the Ma'iideeshgiizhnii (Coyote Pass/Jemez) clan, born for the Tachii'nii (Red Running into the Water) clan, my maternal grandfathers are of the To'aheedliinii (Water Flow Together) clan, my paternal grandfathers are of the Kinyaa'aani (Towering House) clan. I'm come from a family of six. All of my siblings are older and wiser, I'm just the black sheep in the family. - Noreen Parrish
Baby Nicholas - May 21, 2006. - Kim Yazzie
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Where do I begin? What shall I tell you about myself, that I think you should know!? I am from Northern Arizona, LeChee, AZ. - Garrett
My clans are bitter water, towering house, red runs into river and ?.I am currently at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado gettting my Bachelor of Science. There are 567 Tribes Federally Recognized! I am 4/4 FULL blood Navajo or Dine'(which ever you prefer)! I also CANNOT stand those lying self-serving corrupt hypercrits called republicans! - Andrew Sarracino
I don't know why but part of my About Me section gets cut off. Just press F11 to go full screen and you'll see the rest of that section. - Thomas Aguilar
When I'm not working most of my days, I like to relax and chill, take in a good movie, go some place fun and get drunk. No wait, get nicely slammed where I fall over and don't remember where the past 5 hours went. Oh wait that was so many year ago.. now days its just work and myspace. Anyway please write me back and let me know how yours days are and then I can laugh at myself when I read just how well you have your life. - Renee Anderson
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