Keyshawn Whitehorse says a prayer in his Navajo language before he rides a bull competitively. “It keeps me grounded in who I am and where I come from,” he said. Whitehorse, 27, will be competing in ...
Spud Jones, who ascended to new heights in rodeo when he became the first Navajo bull rider to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo in 2008, providing inspiration to Indigenous bull riders in New ...
The rodeo family spreads far and wide and the entirety of it is mourning the recent loss of bull rider Spud Jones. The 36-year-old New Mexico cowboy was the first Navajo bull rider to make the ...
The Navajo Nation is celebrating with a fair and rodeo Sept. 6-13 in Window Rock. The fair is an Arizona and Native American tradition, with a mission “to preserve and promote pride in the Navajo ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – On the Navajo Nation – where cowboy hats and big buckles are everywhere – three team ropers are creating a buzz with their success at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Aaron ...
PAGE — A Navajo family with a century-old legacy in horsemanship plans its ninth annual rodeo this weekend. Holgate's Junior Rodeo, named rodeo of the year by the Indian Junior Rodeo Association every ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Kicking up a cloud of dust, the men riding bareback were in a rowdy scramble to be the first to lean down from atop their horses and grab hold of the chicken that was buried up to ...
Navajo maidens lining up for the annual beauty pageant, the sheriff of the local Apache County signing up deputies for the fight against drugs and a doom-laden white preacher handing out free Gideon ...
Andre de Dienes, Navajo Rodeo, Shiprock, New Mexico, 1942. Gelatin silver print, 10.25 x 9.25 inches, 26 x 23.5 cm. Vintage, stamped. This is a beautiful vintage silver gelatin print of a Navajo Rodeo ...