“Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.� Bob Barker
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The Navajo Nation Fair
is a great place for fair-goers to meet and greet the new calendar girls as well as getting their posters and calendars signed.
Photograph by Lyonel Tso
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Miss White Mountain Apache
Lillian Lupe at the Navajo Nation Fair
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orlana
enjoys enjoys reading, hiking drawing, helping out at food banks, and spending time with family and friends. She is currently a student at New Mexico State University.
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Photograph by Lyonel Photo by Lionel Tso Tso
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Martha does volunteer work with elementary students during the summer, enjoys softball, baking and painting. She is inspired by her family.
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The logo reflects the diversity and beauty of young Navajo women today. The circle’s opening is through which knowledge is gained from above. The face represents the innocence and curiosity of today’s youth. The jewelry represents modesty and pride, while the different hair lengths and styles express their individuality. Logo designed by Karl Jim
Photo by Lionel Tso
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profile Name: Arveda Kim Yazzie. Age: 27 Clans: Totsohnii (Big Water People), Oze Ashihii (Hopi Salt), Ashihii (Salt) & Todichinii (Bitter Water). Hometown: Teesto, AZ Education: I have a Bachelors of Science in Health Administration with a concentration in Health Management. Graduating November 14, 2015 from University of Phoenix. I will begin the Masters program November 2015 in Health Administration with a concentration in Health Education from the University of Phoenix. Employer: Little Colorado Medical Center, Human Resources Department. Military: I am a Military Police, Sergeant (E-5) & highest PT Score of 298 (Maxed out in the running event and sit up event). Extra Curricular Activities: I love to run & ride horses. I play in tons of city leagues: Basketball, Volleyball & Softball. WOTN: It was great to be Miss January for the year 2013. WOTN was on my to-do list and I’m so grateful that I had grasped the knowledge of what it’s like, to be one of the twelve girls to be printed on thousands of calendars across the Navajo Nation. I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and show my Native people that it’s okay to do so. Not all models are just “hair, nails and makeup,” they are strong, intelligent human beings that set great examples for the younger population. Greatest Memory: When my brother Donovan Yazzie mentioned last month (August 2015), that the 2013 WOTN calendar was still hanging in his mechanic’s shop in Gallup, NM., stuck on January. Lol. Favorite Quote: “The distance between your dreams and reality is called DISCIPLINE.”
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were treated to a weeken d of exci t ing enterta in ment. Each November, the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation in Arizona celebrates their 1981 victory over the federal government, who proposed to construct the Orme Dam at the confluence of the Verde and Salt Rivers. The project would have flooded the reservation and relocated the Yavapai people. With limited financial resources, individuals from the community spearheaded an opposition movement that rallied the support of fellow tribal members, other Indian tribes and non-Indian groups.
the Fort McDowell Tribal Council and the Governor’s Advisory Committee, Interior Secretary James Watt announced that Orme Dam would not be built.
By referendum in 1976, the community members voted 144 to 57 against selling their land to the federal government for the dam site. Then on November 12, 1981, after consulting with
Know more about why the Yavapai of Fort McDowell celebrate. visit: http://m.csmonitor.com/1981/1008/100857.html
The annual victory celebration includes: Intertribal Powwow, All-Indian Rodeo, Basketball, softball, and golf tournament, Yavapai Village, showcasing cultural performances from different tribes of the Southwest, Arts and crafts vendors, authentic native foods.
This event was held on November 20-22, 2015.
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Terence Friday Piapot First Nation Saskatchewan
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Morris Crookedneck
Island Lake Cree nation Saskatchewan
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Joey Chief
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