Navajo is now the official language of the Navajo Nation, placing an obligation on the tribal government to preserve and strengthen the language. Legislation was approved by the Navajo Nation ...

Navajo Council Delegate Steven Begay then introduced himself in the Navajo language, sang a traditional song “to acknowledge all the lives lost” in the shared history of the Navajo Nation and ...

about 400 Navajos joined the Marines in the war against Japan to transmit messages by telephone and radio in the Navajo language. They were part of every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific ...

President Buu Nygren signed legislation on Christmas Eve officially recognizing Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language, as the nation’s official language. “One of my priorities coming in as ...

One of Utah’s indigenous languages — Navajo — has faced a precipitous decline in recent decades. In 1980, 93% of Navajos spoke their native language. Thirty years later, that number had ...

Tuba City Elementary School’s Navajo language program held its second Inauguration for 2025 Spring Term Naat’áanii Students ...

Gen. Clayton B. Vogel that the Navajo language — due to it being largely unwritten — would be indecipherable to the Axis powers. Additionally, Johnston argued that the Navajo nation was large ...

Team Yeigo won the MIT Reality Hack 2025 with its groundbreaking augmented reality-powered mobility aid, designed to help ...

Lands and Language The Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S., with approximately 225,000 members and a land mass of 25,000 square miles (16.2 million acres).

The US Marines thought they had the answer in a Native American language. They turned to the Navajo tribe for recruits. Their mission was to devise a code rooted in the Navajo language that would ...

Desiree Benally serves as Miss Utah Navajo while studying at USU, championing cultural heritage and community service.

President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day in honor of the American Indians who joined the Marine Corps in World War II and lent their language to the crypto ...