then gave the skill to the Navajo people. “We were gifted the art of weaving to keep our families from starving, to be kept in good comfort, and to keep our families together,” the sisters write. Now, ...

The journey that brought the sisters to Tucson began serendipitously ... who is believed to have taught the art of weaving to the Navajo people. “There’s a lot of books about Navajo weaving ...

Montezuma Creek • The Martin sisters stood in a thatched shade hut beside an abandoned corn field on the northern Navajo Nation awaiting a command from a film director. It was early March ...

At age sixty, suffering from arthritis, Dedman turned his creative talent to wood carving, thus initiating a new Navajo art form. Although the neighboring Hopis had been carving Kachina dolls for ...

Their next business endeavor revolved around doing food booths, and they took these "Navajo taco stands" across the country. This ended with the sisters settling in Utah County where they did a ...