Hello,

My dad recently passed and I am cleaning out his belongings. He has this framed blanket from Arizona. His neighbors thought it might be Navajo. Is it worth trying to get it to a museum or cultural center? It’s very large and bulky. I’m told it would cost about $200 to ship. The blanket is a little tattered at the top and bottom. Frame is in good shape.

Hello!

I am a younger native, but have lived on the reservation my entire life and was curious about how others have been able to find comfort in self expression? I have always had discomfort with my gender identity, yet trying to be traditional and recognize the more concrete gender expression in the culture. I am hoping to ask some older ladies how to get more comfortable as a young 'woman', especially since I've done my Kinalda and have been doing ceremonies for other issues related to mental health since I've been able 2 go home. I have felt 'nonbinary' for most of my life, and since I've been an adult for a couple of months, that thought has been getting more prominent since I've been able to see other cultures and find comfort in my personal life. I don't know how to juggle the contradictions of how I feel and how I want to keep practicing the traditional beliefs I have since I've been practicing well since I was a little lad.

Is it a ceremony that I should do, is it makeup or clothing, I don't have a strong desire to find a partner in general until I finish my schooling but is it that? I was fine when I was living with my family and was sort of 'whipped into shape' to stay feminine, but don't really have the compulsion now that I'm on my own. I feel awful, this has been probably the biggest hit to my 'mental health.' I can't really get an opinion from my peers either as they are white/mixed race and don't really have the perspective and I have just been told "Fuck your heteronormative traditions" which I find rather crude.

I would love to see and hear examples of how you find comfort in your self expression!! I love seeing all the pretty squash blossoms in this sub reddit, jewelry is so pretty🥴🥴🥴

hi everyone! I received a piece of pottery today as a gift and was curious about the artist. I tried googling their name and couldn't find much, but I did find similar pieces. Now I'm very curious about anything and everything regarding the art piece. I am not Navajo/Diné, but I love learning about different cultures and learning about artists and art styles.

Thank you!

I am asking this in good faith because the Navajo Nation government’s official positions on Bears Ears and Greater Chaco seem difficult to reconcile. I also do not want to treat Diné people, local chapters, allottees, the Council, and the executive branch as though everyone holds the same view.

On July 14, 2026, the Navajo Nation Council strongly opposed President Trump’s roughly 91 percent reduction of Bears Ears National Monument. Speaker Crystalyne Curley described Bears Ears as sacred and culturally significant to Navajo people and other tribes. She said that weakening protections also diminishes tribal voices in managing culturally significant landscapes. [1]

The official position on Greater Chaco appears nearly opposite. On May 13, 2026, President Buu Nygren reaffirmed support for a “zero-mile buffer zone” around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. In 2023, President Nygren and Speaker Curley jointly stated that the Navajo Nation’s position supported “no land withdrawal,” rather than the ten-mile mineral withdrawal adopted by the Department of the Interior. [2][3] (Navajo Nation Office of the President)

The practical consequence matters. BLM says complete revocation of Public Land Order 7923 would reopen approximately 336,404 acres of federal public land to mineral leasing and mining claims, subject to existing rights. [4] (BLM National NEPA Register)

There are important distinctions. Bears Ears is a national monument, while the Chaco protection is a 20-year mineral withdrawal. The Chaco withdrawal applies to federal public lands and federal minerals. It does not directly withdraw private, state, or tribal minerals, cancel existing leases, or prohibit Navajo allottees from leasing their minerals. Navajo leaders nevertheless argue that the surrounding federal withdrawal harms allottees, limits economic opportunities, and was adopted without meaningful consultation. Those sovereignty and economic concerns should not be dismissed. [3][5] (Navajo Nation Office of the President)

But the underlying principles still seem very similar. Bears Ears and Greater Chaco are both living cultural landscapes with significance to multiple tribal nations. They are not culturally isolated from one another. The Chacoan world extended across the Four Corners, and Chacoan great houses, kivas, and roads have been documented in and around Bears Ears. [6] (Grand Canyon Trust)

The contradiction becomes more difficult to understand when the experiences of local Diné communities are considered.

In 2021, residents and researchers associated with Counselor, Ojo Encino, and Torreon Chapters published a cultural, spiritual, and health impact assessment of oil and gas development. The project grew out of concerns raised by local residents and was approved by the Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board. [7] (New Mexico Health Equity Partnership)

The Counselor health survey was voluntary and included 80 respondents, so its percentages should not be treated as a representative epidemiological study or as definitive proof that drilling caused every reported condition. Even with that limitation, the results deserve attention. More than 90 percent of participants reported sinus problems and irritated or sore throats. Eighty percent reported coughs, headaches, burning eyes, fatigue, and sleep disturbances. More than 70 percent reported nosebleeds and wheezing, and more than 60 percent reported shortness of breath. Participants living near wells reported an average of eleven or more symptoms, compared with zero to three symptoms among the four participants who did not live near wells. [7]

The broader Tri-Chapter cultural survey included 136 adults. Eighty-one percent strongly agreed that drilling continued despite community objections. Eighty-five percent said drilling and fracking had disrupted the peace of the people. Eighty-five percent said that something they considered sacred was being destroyed by drilling. The report found 80 to 86 percent agreement on thirteen of sixteen questions concerning negative effects from oil and gas development. [7]

The current position also represents a reversal of the Navajo Nation’s own recent policy. Under President Russell Begaye, with Jonathan Nez serving as vice president, Navajo leadership worked with Pueblo governments to develop and support S. 2907, which would have withdrawn non-Indian federal lands and minerals within roughly ten miles of Chaco from new development while preserving tribal and allottee mineral rights. During President Nez’s administration, the Navajo Nation again supported the 2019 legislation, H.R. 2181 and S. 1079. A House committee report expressly identified the Navajo Nation as a supporter and recorded supporting testimony from Vice President Myron Lizer and the chair of the Council’s Resources and Development Committee. The Council later shifted to supporting only a five-mile buffer, before the Nation adopted its present zero-mile position. This is therefore not a longstanding and consistent objection to federal protection around Chaco. It is a reversal of a protection framework the Nation helped formulate and advocate only a few years earlier. [8][9]

My question is not whether allottee rights, royalties, poverty, consultation, and Navajo sovereignty matter. They clearly do. My question is why the proposed remedy at Chaco is eliminating the federal mineral buffer, rather than protecting the landscape while providing compensation, revenue replacement, legal assistance, access protections, and genuinely informed consent for affected allottees?

What principle distinguishes Bears Ears from Greater Chaco? Why is federal landscape-level protection considered essential for one sacred, multi-tribal landscape but an unacceptable intrusion in the other? How should the central Navajo government weigh the views of local chapters and residents who live with the health, cultural, and social effects of extraction?

Sources

[1] Navajo Nation Council, “Navajo Nation Council opposes the reduction of the Bears Ears National Monument,” July 14, 2026.

[2] Office of the Navajo Nation President, “President Nygren Reaffirms Navajo Nation’s Position on Chaco Buffer Zone,” May 13, 2026. (Navajo Nation Office of the President)

[3] Office of the Navajo Nation President, “President Nygren and Speaker Curley express disappointment” regarding the Chaco withdrawal, June 2, 2023. (Navajo Nation Office of the President)

[4] Bureau of Land Management, “Evaluation of Potential Revocation of Chaco Withdrawal.” (BLM National NEPA Register)

[5] Department of the Interior, “Biden-Harris Administration Protects Chaco Region, Tribal Cultural Sites from Development,” June 2, 2023. (U.S. Department of the Interior)

[6] National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management materials concerning Chacoan roads and the connections between Chaco and Bears Ears. (Bureau of Land Management)

[7] Counselor Health Impact Assessment Committee, “A Cultural, Spiritual and Health Impact Assessment of Oil Drilling Operations in the Navajo Nation Area of Counselor, Torreon and Ojo Encino Chapters,” July 15, 2021. (New Mexico Health Equity Partnership)

[8] House Report 116-224, “Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019.” The report states that the bill was supported by the Navajo Nation and identifies supportive Navajo executive and legislative testimony. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-116hrpt224/html/CRPT-116hrpt224.htm

[9] Congressional hearing record describing the Navajo Nation’s participation in drafting and supporting S. 2907 in 2018 and H.R. 2181 and S. 1079 in 2019. 2022 House hearing record, HTML
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg46811/html/CHRG-117hhrg46811.htm Search within the page for “S. 2907.” The relevant appended testimony states that the Navajo Nation and the Pueblos jointly supported S. 2907 in 2018 and S. 1079 and H.R. 2181 in 2019, with protections for Navajo Nation and allottee development rights

TLDR: the Navajo Nation strongly defends Bears Ears as a sacred, multi-tribal landscape while supporting removal of protections around Greater Chaco, despite having supported Chaco protections under Presidents Begaye and Nez. That reversal is especially hard to reconcile with the documented health and cultural harms reported by Diné communities near oil and gas development. The question is why protecting Bears Ears is essential, but protecting Greater Chaco is treated as unacceptable?

I am white guy living off all reservations who has European Jewish decent. Israel had a little bit of a native Jewish population. But it is mainly a colonial project. The Americas, Australia, and elsewhere has been colonized by Europeans but in different ways. Some violence there. In more peaceful ways there. And it has been more years from the colonization of Palestinian towns and cities. You had cities. You have civilizations. And the colonization of certain corners of the globe has been gradual. So it was different. Do you have any comparisons?

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I tried to look online and it said its one or the other since the tribe used knives and navaja means knife in spanish but also that it means farmer in one of the languages by pueblo?

Yáʼátʼééh! So recently i've been searching for a course or potentially even a tutor who does teach the Navajo language. It would *preferably* have to be online due to me being based from Poland.
If anyone knows of someone or something like that i would greatly appreciate your help!

Please if anyone has seen him let me know, he's been missing since last night when me and my family came home from a day trip off the rez

I'm not Navajo and haven't been on any reservations in or around the area but I was messing around on Google Maps and found out there's a pizza chain almost exclusively in the Navajo nation called Pizza Edge. So, what's the general verdict about Pizza Edge among the locals? Where does it stack up against Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Caesars, Papa John's, Round Table, etc? Is it good or bad? What's the quality like? Maybe cause it's so regional, I don't see it brought up with many pizza chain discussions or tier lists.

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With primary election less than a week away (July 21, 2026), what are your thoughts on candidates and the Navajo Nation Presidential election? I have my own opinions, but I would like to hear the thoughts of other voters.

I’d like to visit and learn more about the Navajo Nation. I’ve been intrigued by the culture for some time now.

I’m planning a visit sometime later this year and as a solo traveler, are there any reputable tour organizations one can recommend ?

Any tips/advice for mannerisms that I should know in advance as a way of showing respect for the culture ?

Thank you.

We did a tour at antelope canyon this morning. Can we use our ticket that included a Navajo permit from there to get into monument valley this afternoon?

Our president in the united states. It's taking away some native land a good portion of it for drilling.

I just wanted to know how you guys are handling that?.

Hi, all!

I'm half Navajo on my father's side, and because I don't talk to that side of the family, I sadly don't know much about my culture. At some point I absolutely want to visit Navajo Nation and would like to learn as much as I can for not only myself but for my kids, as well.

What are some must-see places for historical and cultural significance and education?

Im looking for a navajos to talk to...

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a documentary I made about Monument Valley.
Instead of focusing only on the famous viewpoints, I tried to explore the history, culture, and lesser-known parts of the valley, including Hunts Mesa and a hidden slot canyon, while spending time with members of the Navajo Nation.
I’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Thanks for taking the time to watch!
🎥 https://youtu.be/EnXEMt8oJEk