Navajo rugs: More than just a pretty base

GANADO – Maggie Mannie, 83, assisted by her tall, strapping grandson, walked into Hubbell Trading Post with business on her mind. In one hand she held her cane and in the other, two rolled-up weavings, her own handwork. Edison Eskeets, the post’s trader, stepped up to the old oak counter and looked over Miss Mannie’s…

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Native Americans take a stand at the Super Bowl

Arizona’s Native American tribes want a piece of the Super Bowl. “What better time to advertise than the Superbowl?” said Debra Krol, senior communications manager at the Heard Museum and member of the Xolon Salinan tribe. The message many tribes want to leave behind in one of the world’s largest media shows is both cultural and political….

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