Adorned Indigenous Hands.




Hands of a Navajo Woman.  Photo by Michael Mauney

 For me, the hands of the Indigenous Elder brings me back HOME. I was fortunate and richly blessed to be raised by my maternal grandparents and so have my maternal great-grandparents until I was a student in high school.

When I think of my grandmothers, my MATRIARCHS I alway invision their wise hands ADORNED with silver and turquoise beauty. As an adult I am greatful they instilled the importance of Indigenous Navajo ADORNMENT in my life. Today in the 21st century ADORNMENT is part of my personal ritual, and silver and turquoise is my daily mantra.