One hundred sixty years ago this month, the first large group of emaciated Navajos began trekking eastward from their homeland to a new reservation. It became known as the Long Walk. Escorted by the U ...

Church Rock Mine, N.M. — Most of the mining companies that drilled, dug and blasted for uranium on the Navajo reservation during the Cold War did nothing to repair the environmental damage they left ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Archaeologists and volunteers armed with special flares will fan out over part of the Four Corners region on Saturday to study how early Navajos could have used smoke signals to ...

The only railroad on the Navajo reservation shut down last summer. Instead of carrying passengers, the 78-mile-long line was used to transport coal. The electrified Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad ...

Unlike most of the vast, impoverished Navajo Nation, in this town all the roads are paved, schools and clinics are a short drive away, and every home has electricity and running water. Those modern ...

The Searchers became one of the most notable collaborations between Wayne and his longtime mentor, John Ford. The movie star played Ethan Edwards, a Civil War soldier, who returns back to Texas after ...

Alwin Girdner grew up among fervent Plymouth Brethren missionaries on the isolated Navajo Reservation of the 1920s and ’30s. As subject matter for bedtime stories, this one doesn’t exactly leap. But ...

Oljato, Utah — Mary and Billy Boy Holiday bought their one-room house from a medicine man in 1967. They gave him $50, a sheep and a canvas tent. For the most part, they were happy with the purchase.

PHOENIX — On Monday, as millions across the U.S. clamor for a view of the solar eclipse, Freddie Johnson and his family will stay at home and avert their eyes. They will sit quietly in their Mesa, ...

Neda Billie has been waiting to turn on lights in her home for 15 years. "We've been living off those propane lanterns," she says. "Now we don't have to have flashlights everywhere. All the kids have ...