Stacy Thacker
When strange howls come from the mountains or justice needs to be brought to the Navajo people, the Navajo Nation Cops are on the scene.
Through six episodes of “Navajo Cops”, a show picked up by National Geographic Television featuring the lives and work of Navajo officers on the reservation, viewers got a backstage pass on what patrolling the Navajo reservation is like.
The show, produced by Sam Dolan and Flight 33 Productions, aired a pilot in May 2011 that gained so much attention that more episodes were in high demand.
Based on Navajo tradition and origin stories, it is said that the current world is the Fifth World.
Navajo people believe that there are a number of worlds in which the Navajo people emerged.
While we are currently in the Fifth World Navajo film director Nanobah Becker decided to look into the future and give people a glimpes of the next world, the Sixth World.
By Stacy Thacker, University of Montana
Last week Johnny Depp became a member of the Comanche tribe based on his character "Tonto," in his newest movie "The Lone Ranger." While he has claimed to be part Native American for years he is now officially a Comanche.
I can't argue that it would be cool to say you were the same tribe as Johnny Depp but I can't seem to figure out what the purpose was for this.
By Stacy Thacker, University of Montana
In the past few years the Navajo Nation has decided to try its hand at gaming. While this has been both controversial and welcomed, there is a new study that shows that it might be among the best ideas that many tribes have had.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Casinos have proven to be something of a health miracle.
By Stacy Thacker, University of Montana
Native Americans fought Vikings?! And built a pyramid that is being destructed?! Pilgrims offered themselves to Natives as slaves for food?!
This week, writers Jack O'Brien and Elford Alley, of Cracked.com decided to explore the "6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America."
Most kids can't remember their first birthday, but Kevin Kicking Woman can.
He was 14 years old, his party consisted of cake, presents and a barbecue.
"I felt corny because I never had one before so I didn't know how to act. You always think about them all the time," he said.
But his childhood wasn’t always filled with positive memories. When he was two years old his father put him up for adoption and then he moved around from home to home. He faced abuse, was taunted by his siblings and missed out on the typical childhood most children have.
By Stacy Thacker, University of Montana
Growing up in Indian Country and running endless dirt roads has proven to be successful for Alvina Begay, Navajo, who qualified for the Olympic Trials last weekend at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitation in northern California.
By Stacy Thacker, University of Montana
This week was the season finale of Navajo Cops and I missed it! I'm not sure how many of you out there were in the same twilight zone I was in but when I checked the TV guide it was all about how to survive an apocalypse or something of the sort.
By Stacy Thacker, University of Montana
In 2010 a young Navajo man named Vincent Kee was a victim of a racial hate crime in Farmington, N.M. He had swastika's branded into his skin and shaved into the back of his head. Kee is mentally disabled and wasn't able to defend himself from his attackers.
Navajo Cops are back and they aren't messing around in this week's episode. The first call takes viewers to Fort Defiance, Ariz., where Officer Toddy attends to a man that claims somebody tried to stab him. Cops arrive to find the man intoxicated and as they search the house they find another man in hiding. The house has a reputation that involves drugs and apparently the guy in hiding realizes this because cops find him with weapons. Might as well be stealth and protected.
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