CORTEZ – The Navajo for generations have created sand paintings for use in sacred ceremonies. Diné artist Bento Yazzie has a unique take on the art form, but he struggles to describe what it’s like to ...

Eugene Joe is a Diné sand art painter from Shiprock, New Mexico. Eugene comes from a family of sand painters and has spent 50 years as an artist. His work reflects his Diné culture and includes ...

In Mrs. Ullrich and Miss Parlavecchio’s Social Studies class at the Frank K. Hehnly School in Clark , the fifth grade students created their own versions of a Navajo Sand Painting. After having ...

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) photographs, NMAI.AC.373 catalog #; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

15 1/8 x 18 1/4 in. (38.4 x 46.4 cm.), frame: 26 x 32 x 1 in. 66 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm.

For Benton Yazzie, art is a therapy which has seen him through difficulties, solitude, and mistreatment. Yazzie, a Navajo artist who now lives in Cortez, grew up on a reservation in western New Mexico ...

According to legend, the Navajo Indians learned art from their gods. The gods painted lasting pictures on buckskin, but they told the Navajos to make sand-paintings and destroy them as soon as they ...

"Filmed entirely on the Navajo Reservation." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!939103~!0#focus ...

The Navajo Nation is being buried in sand. A third of that land is now covered with sand dunes as a result of climate change. Roads carouse for livestock; even entire homes have been enveloped, ...