A Navajo baby's first laugh is sacred — it is a symbol of welcoming the child into the greater Navajo community. The person who makes the child laugh for the first time has been chosen as the ...

The Middle Mesa Fire, east of Navajo Lake and has burned 3,213 acres. The fire has also pushed eastward and is in the ...

President of the Navajo Nation Buu Nygren speaks about the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.

Four people were killed when a medical transport plane crashed in northeastern Arizona on Tuesday. The plane, operated by CSI ...

Navajo Nation officials urged Diné and other Indigenous tribal citizens to apply for tribal ID cards, such as the Navajo Nation Identification card, if they don’t have one.

A member of the Navajo community loads wood for delivery to homes on a reservation in Cameron, Ariz., in 2021. The wood was accessed through the National Forest Foundation's Wood for Life initiative.

Mr. Beyale, who is 35 and a farmer, lives near Shiprock, in the part of Navajo Nation that covers northwestern New Mexico. In the Navajo Nation, which stretches into parts of Arizona and Utah and ...

Navajo cultural advisor George R. Joe explains the painful history, and present-day controversies, that shaped his work on AMC crime drama 'Dark Winds.' ...

Generations of Navajo families in Westwater, a small community just outside Blanding, lived for decades without basic utilities, hauling water from a spring or from town to meet daily needs.

Navajo weavings can bring thousands at auction, but the tribe's textile tradition is about far more than earning money. It's about preserving and transferring culture across generations.