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| A view of my new website header featuring Navajo model Crystal Birdhead dressed in garments I designed and produced. Photo credit Venaya Yazzie 2016 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
Happy September 29th - for we only have a couple more glorious days of the month left. As you might guess I adore the month of September. For one it's my birthday month, but also the birth date of several of my family members including my maternal grandmother.
I wanted to share some news today concerning my ongoing research on 'indigenous adornment.' Yesterday I launched my new website called "Indigenous Adornment." It is my hope that this site will continue to promote southwestern cultural adornment of the Dine' (Navajo) and Pueblo (Hopi) peoples of Arizona and New Mexico, USA.
As I have mentioned on several previous entry's this research I have been doing for the past five years or so has lead me to produce a book manuscript and hopefully soon a book. I am always inspired by my immediate desert matriarchs and patriarch as I continue on this great journey of my proposed book.
I have launched this new site with hopes that it will inspire others, educate the global community and bring awareness to the public about Indigenous southwestern tribal/cultural adornment practices. And further that it will perpetuate the tribal narrative of my family and tribal commuunity - and the importance of our identity in the 21st century, including our ways of adorning as acts of resiliency.
I hope you are blessed with love and laughter in your life - enjoy the rest of September!
Blessings in all things.
-Venaya
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