In Bedonie’s class, Jakins said, they learned about the “importance of the four levels of creation, or the four worlds” which are represented by sacred colors: Blue, yellow, white and black.

Finally, the Diné, the term the Navajo use to describe themselves and their language, settled in the canyon — between the four sacred mountains of their creation story.

Imagine life without phone access: How would you compete in a wired economy, or get help in an emergency? That's John Badal's preface to pitching Sacred Wind Communications, a company he says will ...

A Reform rabbi, a Navajo medicine man and a professor walk into a museum. It sounds like the opening of a joke, but on a recent May Shabbat at Window Rock, Ariz., capital of the Navajo Nation, it ...

But Eskeets said that for the Navajo, it goes in both directions. The four sacred mountains — Blanca Peak and Mount Hesperus in Colorado, Mount Taylor in New Mexico, and the San Francisco Peaks ...

A fertile cradle. Canyon de Chelly (pronounced de SHAY), a national monument since 1931, sprawls fingerlike across roughly 84,000 acres of northeastern Arizona, near the town of Chinle (CHIN-lee ...