Navajo Fair season and turquoise adornment.

Photo by Venaya Yazzie
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My Navajo/ Pueblo cultural Indigenous jewelry is a vital part of my identity. Turquoise and silver jewelry adornment items such as earrings and rings, are how I choose to perpetuate my Indigenous way of life and existence.

This season is the season of Indigenous Adornment for many on the reservations of the southwest. In September the Navajo Nation began its ceremonial participation in the annual tribal fairs across the reservations in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

I was able to kick off the celebrations last weekend in Window Rock, Arizona last weekend. I was delighted to see much cultural Navajo adornment being practiced by a mix of people including tiny babies to beautiful Navajo elders, all dressed in their finest Navajo garb and turquoise and silver jewelry adornments.

The life of a Navajo person concerns cultural adornment, it is what has been talked to us through our Navajo oral history.