Emmi Whitehorse

Emmi Whitehorse

female, 52 years old
painter, Native American, artist, navajo, American, Navajo tribe
Emmi Whitehorse (born 1957) is a Native American painter. She was born in Crownpoint, New Mexico and is a member of the Navajo tribe. She currently...
Hosteen Klah

Hosteen Klah

male, deceased (1937)
Anthropologist, Native American, artist, transgendered, navajo, weaver…Navajo tribe
Hosteen Klah was a Navajo artist and shaman. He gave information to anthropologists and others about Navajo religion and related ceremonial...

Ray Manley

male, deceased (2006)
Arizona Highways, American, Northern Arizona University, photographer, navy, monument valley…navajo
Ray Manley (born September 4, 1921 in Cottonwood, Arizona, died July 15, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American photographer whose photographs of...
Fred Martinez

Fred Martinez

male, deceased (2001)
transgender, transvestite, Native American, Hate crime, Murdered Native American, navajo…Navajo tribe
Fred C. Martinez, Jr. (May, 1985 - June 16, 2001) was a transgender Native American student of Navajo ancestry. Among Navajo people, a transgender...
Edward T. Hall

Edward T. Hall

male, 95 years old
Columbia University, Illinois Institute Of Technology, Bennington College, perception, Environmental psychology, United States State Department…navajo, navajo nation
Edward T. Hall (born May 16 1914) is a respected anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. Born in Webster Groves, Missouri, Hall has taught at...

Paddy Martinez

male, deceased (1969)
navajo, uranium, prospector, Life, From New Mexico, Reader's Digest
Patricio "Paddy" Martinez (1881-1969), American prospector and sheepherder, discovered uranium at Haystack Mountain, near Grants, New Mexico in...
Jay Tavare

Jay Tavare

male
Cheyenne, Western Apache, White Mountain Apache, adaptation, into the west, the missing…navajo, born in Navajo Reservation
Jay Tavare is an actor of Native American/Latino descent. He has played a number of Native Americans in movies, including a Seminole in...
James H. Simpson

James H. Simpson

male
american civil war, United States Military Academy, Second Seminole War, Seminole War, First Transcontinental Telegraph, Transcontinental Telegraph…navajo
James Hervey Simpson was an officer in the U.S. Army and a member of the United States Topographical Engineers. He was born in New Brunswick, New...
Alice Corbin Henderson

Alice Corbin Henderson

female, deceased (1949)
Red Earth, Poems of New Mexico, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, navajo, hogan, American, Tuberculosis
Alice Corbin Henderson (16 April 1881 - 18 July 1949) was an American poet and poetry editor. Alice Corbin was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her...

Cody Sanderson

male
Native American, artist, hopi, navajo, metalsmith, repoussé
Cody Sanderson is a metalsmith based in Santa Fe, New Mexico of Navajo and Hopi decent who specializes in jewelry using traditional repousse...