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Undated archival photo of the Northern Navajo Nation Fair at Shiprock, NM. Courtesy Navajo Nation Museum

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Megan Badonie, Miss Northern Navajo Teen [2011-2012] banters with a Navajo elder at the Frybread Pavilion during the 66th Annual Navajo Nation Fair.

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Aliah Hicks, Miss Central Navajo Teen [2012-2013]

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Former U.S. Congress candidate, Wenona Benally Baldenegro, speaks to the attendees of the July 5th, 2012  special session who oppose the Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Act at the Navajo Nation Council Chamber in Window Rock, Arizona. Wenona Benally Baldenegro, who is also Navajo, was defeated by Ann Kirkpatrick in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District’s 2012 Democratic primary elections.

Had she won the Democratic primary and gone on to win in Arizona’s November general election, she would have been the first Native American woman ever elected to Congress.

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A couple screencaps are missing because of how many photos can be a tumblr photoset. The full text, from the film Reel Injun, goes like this.

(Narration): James can remember how many of the Navajo actors would go off-script in some scenes, joking around in their own language. No one ever bothered to translate what was said until now.

(Scene from A Distant Trumpet, 1964)

(White man, presumably a soldier, in English): If I do not return, General Quait will find you, and you will be dead and all your people.

(Presumably the chief of the tribe, in Navajo, left untranslated in the 1964 film): Just like a snake you’ll be crawling in your own shit.

(The soldier): No. He is not a fool, you are.

(The chief): Obviously you can’t do anything to me. You’re a snake crawling in your own shit.

(Narration): After playing the bonehead savage for so many years, the Navajo get their sweet revenge.

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Could not find Navajo Tacos.

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West Mitten Butte, Arizona by Tyler Westcott on Flickr.

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Yá’át’ééh!

Today’s Navajo word, ch’il bíláhtah nizhóní, refers to a flower.

This is a descriptive phrase, meaning that it can change depending on how one chooses to describe a flower.

The first part of the word, ch’il evokes the image of greenery, but not the type that grows larger and larger...

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14K gold, turquoise and coral cuff bracelet by Craig Agoodie (Navajo)

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Leandra Thomas, The new Miss Navajo Nation [2012-2013]

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Latrisha Honie, Lil’ Miss Central Navajo [2012-2013]

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Miss Navajo Nation Competition

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Verb time; this word today, “nisin” expresses the English equivalent of “I desire (it)” or “I want (it).”

We should point out an interesting aspect of the following paradigm: the first and second person forms also mean “to think (it)” or “to be of the opinion of.” We touched a little upon this in...

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So who am I seeing tonight? :D Better save me a dance at Gary Allen<3. I’m just sitting out here watching airplanes flyyyyy byyyy :D.

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Navajo code talkers operate a radio in Australia.

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“Sacred Land” by Stuzal - Navajo Reservation Land in Arizona.