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Woodcarver David Draper (Diné) draws from a rich tapestry of influences, from Michelangelo to the late, legendary sculptor Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache). But his most powerful ideas come from his home in the Chuska Mountains on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

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Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (Shawnee/Seminole) has an infectious sense of mirth and creative energy, which he pours into his award-winning paintings, both large and small. Photo courtesy Ackerman McQueen.

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Kiva Fine Art
Works by Navajo painter David K. John and Hopi painter Dan V. Lomahaftewa are prominently featured in the gallery through October, while other Native painters, sculptors, potters, jewelers, basket weavers and wood workers also consistently maintain a strong presence.

NavajoLand
A Native Son Shares His Legacy

Text and photography by LeRoy DeJolie (Navajo); foreword by Tony Hillerman; Arizona Highways Books; Phoenix, AZ; 2005; 80 pages; $12.95 paperbound

Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)

For many Native artisans, it was the memory of a grandmother’s deftly moving fingers, or a grandfather’s quiet words, that stirred up a powerful desire to learn and carry on an ancient skill perhaps in danger of being lost to the modern world. In some cases, the effort of a single artist—who taught someone else, who then taught someone else—has revived and preserved important ancient Native crafts.

Larry Price—originally from Sheep Springs, New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation—has a passion for creating photographic images. Price didn't get serious about photography until January 2002 when he came across an article in Photographic Magazine about a photographer from Flagstaff, Arizona. The imagery in those pages moved him.

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This spectacular dancer, Susan Armijo (Mexica), a member of the Aztec-styled dance and music troupe America Indigena, led by flautist Xavier Quijas Yxayotl, enthralled audiences last March at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market and will return for this year’s event.

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Some of the earliest Native expressions of prayer, self-identity, adornment and beauty were created in three-dimensional form from materials freely provided by the earth. Walrus ivory figures carried by hunters in the Arctic north, amulets carved in bone or wood or shaped from clay, totems reaching skyward-over the centuries, experienced hands have passed on their understanding and tools to younger hands.

Brothers in Arms: Windtalkers
Freedom is not free. The sacrifices made by countless soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines secured our freedom in the United States. Many of these warriors were Native Americans who fought and died in America’s wars. Windtalkers reveals these truths in an awe-inspiring movie whose story should have been told decades ago.

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Three-year-old Ariana Selina and eight-year-old Philana Selina of the Hopi Tewa Senom Dancers, here seen sprinkled with corn pollen, have charmed guests at the annual Heard Museum Fair in Phoenix. Join us in a preview of this year's 44th fair in March, one of the premier gatherings of Native artists in the world.

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Dan Namingha: Visual Poet Builds Artistic Bridges
"I see myself as a bridge between worlds, trying to find that center line of balance." Armed with paintbrush, welder or electric guitar, Hopi/Tewa artist Dan Namingha thrives in the realms of dualities and passages—night and day, darkness and light, the divine and the human, life and death, positive and negative.

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Seated at a loom or silhouetted by a panoramic Monument Valley landscape, our most enduring impressions of Navajo women are frozen in time on postcard nostalgia and in coffeetable books. In this modernized representation of Navajo women—seen through the lens of Diné photographer LeRoy DeJolie—the resulting portraits reveal the evolution of traditional apparel that sings the stories of land, history and progress.

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Standing on the site of the forthcoming National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. are (left to right) John Colonghi (Aleut), campaign director, and W. Richard West (Southern Cheyenne), founding director.