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Looking through a hand magnifier, Clyde Tombaugh could barely see the stars on the image in front of him at Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory. “My hand was shaking,” he later told his biographer. “I was literally shaking with excitement.” In less than an hour, he’d gone from doubt to certainty that a faint spot on the photographic plate was...
From the February 2025 Issue
Coming up through the Painted Desert from Flagstaff, we pull into the Kykotsmovi Village convenience store, where Michael Kotutwa Johnson greets us. He’s a faculty member at the University of...
Like Tombstone, the Pleasant Valley and Fort Bowie, Yuma has a colorful history, one that includes the usual elements of the Old West. Steamboats are part of the history, too. For more than 50 years...
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I decided to visit Canyon de Chelly after my first weaving workshop on the Navajo Reservation. Our workshop facilitator scheduled a trip to the canyon during our weeklong class, but I skipped the trip and stayed behind to weave instead.
Luckily for me, I didn’t miss much. The spring rains flooded the streambed and turned the canyon floor to mud, and the tour never made it to its final destination: Spider Rock, the home of Spider Woman.
What I know about Spider Woman I have had to learn from books and the internet. Even though my great-grandmother was a weaver and traditional adviser, she passed away years before I returned to the reservation; as did my grandmother; as did my mother. My traditional knowledge is borrowed, secondhand.
But here is what I feel comfortable telling you: In Diné Bahane’, the Navajo creation story, Spider Woman is the holy one who gave us the gift of weaving. She gave us the Beauty Way. It is impossible to translate hózhó directly into English, to understand the full weight of beauty. Beauty is health and...
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Newspaper writers in the 1920s were known for hyperbole, but sometimes, their enthusiasm ended up being prophetic. That was the case in September 1925, when The Arizona...