Navajo Nation

It’s been a little while, but I just wanted to pass along the link to an article that was written about us in the Navajo Times.  The article was written by Joan Levitt, one of the teachers we worked closely with during our time on the Reservation, and focuses mostly… Continue reading »

We got that question- and its myriad of variations-a whole lot during our week-long stay at St. Michael's.  The teachers wanted to know why a bunch of enthusiastic 20-year-olds suddenly popped up in their classrooms, the kids wanted to know where their new playmates came from, and the woman running the seminar on Navajo weaving wanted to know why there were eleven random non-Natives in her hogan.   Continue reading »

Greetings from Phoenix Sky Harbor!  I am a huge fan of free airport wifi. Unbelievably, I am on my way home again.  I apologize for the lack of updates this past week, but the unreliability of the internet made fitting time to blog into our already busy schedule pretty difficult. Continue reading »

Good: We got internet at the house! Bad: The internet doesn’t work when eleven people try to use it at the same time…hence why I am blogging at 7am while everyone else sleeps. Ugly: This post, because I still do not have enough signal to upload pictures.   Good: We… Continue reading »

Greetings from Navajo Nation! We successfully arrived in Window Rock last night, but we don’t yet have access to the wifi at our house so I apologize for the lack of an update.  Hopefully we’ll figure out the internet situation soon so I can offer more extensive posts and start uploading… Continue reading »

The Williams Navajo Nation Outreach Program (that’s too long of a name…should we be WNNOP for short?) has officially landed in Alberquerque! We’re packed in a van for a two and a half hour ride to our final destination of Window Rock, AZ. Twelve people, lots of luggage, one smelly… Continue reading »