TV show filmed in Moab Teaches Kids the Navajo Language
Pete Sands is bringing Navajo culture and language to life with “Navajo Highways,” a new kids’ show featuring puppets and live actors.
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“It’s been a godsend”: New community center in Monument Valley offers essential resources
In Monument Valley, residents who need to send an email or print a document often have to drive over 70 miles, one way, to Blanding. That’s changing with a new community center in…
Award-winning Navajo hoop dancers to perform Friday, Dec. 10
In traditional hoop dancing, the hoops represent the circle of life, Joseph Secody told the Friends of the Moab Folk Festival last year. The dances tell stories of connection as Secody and Patrick…
Bears Ears is back — but don’t celebrate just yet: Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk unpacks the deeper implications — and limitations — of Biden’s monuments proclamation.
On Friday, the Biden administration announced it will reverse the Trump administration’s reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, a series of sea canyons and…
Navajo Nation president rejects reopening: Nez vetos full reopening of tribal parks, citing COVID-19 concerns
During a special session on June 3, the Navajo Nation Council voted unanimously to reopen tribal parks to the public at full capacity, including popular destinations such as Monument Valley and Four Corners…
Science Moab talks to archaeologist R.E. Burrillo about past and future of a significant region
Landscapes across the Colorado Plateau are not only physical, but cultural. Bears Ears, named for two enormous buttes, is one such place that has received increasing national attention. This week, we speak with…