In the town of Sanders, Ariz., about 40 miles west of Gallup, N.M., the two-story R.B. Burnham & Company serves as community center, trading post, pawn shop and grocery. With 10 employees on the ...

In this multimedia series, Arizona Republic reporter Sonja Haller and photographers John Samora, Mark Henle, Cheryl Evans and David Wallace set out to feature the products made, manufactured or grown ...

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." This master of literary rhyme wrote many profound lines in his time, but this statement about charity may ...

When a woman wants to retire from a long and distinguished career so she can enjoy being a grandma, that usually doesn’t qualify as big news. But when that woman is Ruby Hubbard, master weaver at ...

Mae Morgan, a Navajo weaver, is one of several weavers who produces rugs for an auction that raises funds for the Museum of Natural History at CU-Boulder. Photo courtesy of Harry Jackson Clark Sr.

FAIR OAKS, Calif. – Marilyn Greaves may have been born and raised in Sacramento, but her heart belongs to Navajo country. “I’ve always loved the Southwest and all the things that go with it,” said the ...

Since I have traveled many interesting miles exploring the back roads of the Navajo Reservation over the years, I was delighted to read your highly accurate experience piece (“Weaving Through the ...

An 800-foot pillar of red sandstone looms at the east end of Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly in the heart of the Navajo Nation. It is called Spider Rock, for Spider Woman, who taught the Navajo to weave, ...