Navajo children 'adorned'

                     Navajo Song and Dance child participants.
                       Photo credit: Venaya J. Yazzie 2015
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I took this photo during the annual Northern Navajo Nation Fair in Shiprock, NM this past weekend. These two Navajo children were a blessing to watch during my time spent at the Navajo Social Song and Dance event on the Navajo reservation.

They are dressed in full Navajo Indigenous Adornment form their head to their small feet! The little boy was so cute wearing his Navajo style men's headband,and his velvet shirt. He danced most all of the dances that happened that day and dance every time with this Navajo girl pictured here.

Seeing these two dance gives me hope for the cultural future of the Navajo people. When 'adorning' themselves with Navajo attire they most likely are taught the reasons and traditions of what they are wearing and why they are wearing such objects.  They bless the People.