#dine

[sartorialadventure]

Diné (Navajo) Girl Wearing Silver And Turquoise Squash Blossom Jewelry, 1950

#native american #native american fashion #dine #dine fashion #navajo #navajo fashion #jewelry #hairstyles

[ksjanes]

Come join me, share this experience. You are always welcome.

K.S. Janes

#photographers on tumblr #share #join #dine #welcome

[rrlexchange]

Loving this gorgeous capsule collection by designer and seventh generation #Dine (#Navajo) textile artist Naiomi Glasses. Naiomi's designs celebrate Navajo pattern work and centuries-old weaving traditions. Traditional motifs, like directional crosses, dragonflies, spider woman crosses, and others are found across this gorgeous collection. #RalphLauren #RRL #PoloWestern#Dinetah #NavajoNation #NaoimiGlasses #RRLwestern#RRLnavajo #RRLstyle

#double rl #rrl exchange #ralph lauren western #rrl western #ralph lauren #rrlexchange #rrl #polo western #doublerl #polo ralph lauren #navajonation #dinetah #dine #polo indian chief

[beyondtheadobe]

#beyond the adobe #southwestern #western style #boho western #santa fe style #dine #navajo silver #navajo nation #Navajo jewelry #dineh

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mammatus clouds over Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, name derived from Diné "áshįįh łibá" ("salt, but it is gray"), about 7.5 miles northwest of Nageezi (Naayízí), Dinétah, New Mexico. Photo: Jesse Bull Chris (Jan 2024) :: [Thanks to Robert Scott Horton]

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There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes –

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference – Where the Meanings, are –

None may teach it – Any – ‘Tis the seal Despair – An imperial affliction Sent us of the Air –

When it comes, the Landscape listens – Shadows – hold their breath – When it goes, ‘tis like the Distance On the look of Death –

Emily Dickinson [F320]

#Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #New Mexico #Dine #Dinetah #Mammatus clouds #Nageezi #Jesse Bull Chris #poem #poetry #Emily Dickinson

[olowan-waphiya]

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2022/07/15/navajo-nation-citizen-science-pollution

Methane pollution is poorly tracked, so Diné activists are monitoring it themselves.

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From behind her FLIR GF320 infrared camera, Kendra Pinto sees plumes of purple smoke otherwise invisible to the naked eye. They’re full of methane and volatile organic compounds, and they’re wafting out of an oil tank in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin.

Pinto, a member of the Diné (Navajo) community and field advocate with environmental group Earthworks, relies on this device in her fight to keep her community’s air clean. She lives in the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation, home to booming oil and gas production.

“When I walk outside, I can’t just think about fresh air. I’m thinking about the VOCs. I’m thinking about the methane that I’m breathing in, because I know what’s out there,” Pinto said. “I see it all the time.”

She’s one of countless citizen scientists across the country who are tracking and reporting environmental harms committed by the oil and gas industry to regulators. And here, there are many: The Environmental Defense Fund estimates that each year, New Mexico’s oil and gas companies emit more than 1.1 million metric tons of methane, a greenhouse gas around 86 times more potent in its warming potential than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Much of this comes from wasted natural gas—$271 million of it in this state alone, according to the EDF. It leaks out of faulty equipment and is intentionally expelled through the processes of venting and flaring, in which excess, unrefined natural gas is released or burned from oil wells and refineries to eliminate waste or reduce pressure buildups.

This is bad for the planet—high volumes of methane released into the atmosphere accelerate the pace of the climate crisis. It’s also bad for the people who live around it who are exposed to the pollutants that typically come along with methane emissions, like benzene, a carcinogen, and PM2.5 and PM10—particulate matter small enough to get lodged deep in the lungs. Pinto said her neighbors experience disproportionately high rates of headaches, nosebleeds, allergies, and respiratory issues, like sinus and throat discomfort.

“I think the scariest thing about methane is it’s odorless,” Pinto said. “It’s a silent killer. And if my neighbors are breathing it in, that’s worrisome.”

These emissions and the fossil fuel development that causes them have long been “insufficiently regulated,” said Jon Goldstein, senior director of regulatory and legislative affairs at EDF. In 2020, then-president Donald Trump rolled back Obama-era regulations on methane that effectively eliminated the requirement that oil and gas companies monitor and repair methane leaks in their infrastructure.

The Senate voted to reinstate them in April 2021, and last November, the Biden administration announced it would introduce even more comprehensive regulations in an interagency effort to crack down on emissions from the oil and gas sector. As part of the plan, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed its own rules, which include a requirement that states reduce methane emissions from thousands of sources nationwide, and a provision that encourages the use of new technology designed to find major leaks. A final methane rule is expected to be implemented later this year.

The Navajo Nation, too, is taking things into its own hands: The Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency is currently considering adopting a permitting program to regulate methane from oil and gas development on its land.

Here, methane emissions from oil and gas companies are 65% higher than the national average, seeping out of pipelines, oil rigs, and the like. The San Juan Basin, some 150 miles northwest of Santa Fe, has received a failing grade from the American Lung Association for ozone pollution, or smog, the result of the combination between VOCs and radiation from sunlight.

Exposure to ozone has been tied to degraded respiratory health and asthma attacks, and it’s typically seen in cities, Goldstein said.

“The San Juan Basin isn’t home to large cities,” he said. In San Juan County, ozone is the result of the widespread build-out of oil and gas wells; approximately half of the county’s 50,000 residents who identify as Indigenous live within half a mile of those wells, according to EDF.

Catching emissions at the source will be crucial to changing this legacy. And where regulators can’t (or won’t) step in, residents like Pinto are. The federal government is now relying upon community monitoring, or work that citizens do to contribute to public understanding of the scope of air pollution near fossil fuel sites, a development that Eric Kills A Hundred, tribal energy program manager at EDF, believes will be “huge.”

The EPA’s methane proposal includes a plan to implement a program to “empower the public to detect and report large emission events for appropriate follow-up by owners and operators,” according to an agency news release.

During the comment period for the EPA’s proposed community monitoring program, members of the petroleum industry questioned whether the agency has the authority to establish it at all, primarily objecting to the idea that air quality monitoring be conducted by entities other than agencies and producers themselves, E&E News reported​​ in May.

But Pinto said groups like Earthworks have a track record of doing this work long before federal regulators began tapping them for their data collection.

“Documenting these types of emissions is important because no one else is really doing it,” she said. “Even the agencies that are regulating this type of thing. Because we’re in a rural area, what can they actually capture when they come out here? Are they going to more than 100 sites?”

Kills A Hundred said these efforts are not only about what the Navajo Nation can contribute to government data on methane pollution, they’re also about empowering the community to play a role in stopping it.

“Having been the stewards of the land for so long,” he said, “it’s just so important for these communities to be active and raise their voice.”

#indigenous #native american #climate crisis #methane #fossil fuels #greenhouse gas emissions #navajo #dine #diné #navajo nation #epa #environmental action #pollution #science

[a-todd-illustration]

#myart #chenoa #native culture #native american #navajo #dine #diné #dance #native american dance #digital art #my art

[linguisticdiscovery]

Navajo Tech is the first tribal university to offer a PhD program!

(This is especially exciting to me because I was the editor for the Navajo Rosetta Stone software and worked with the tribe for years!)

#Navajo #Dine #language #Native #Indigenous #Diné bizaad #lingblr #langblr #Native American

[32kills]

artfight attack for @2bhankfan ALSO I MESSED WITH THE COLOURS AFTER POSTING IT SO ITS #BETTER NOW…

#madness combat #madness combat oc #cantu #quid #dine #!others ocs #!my ocs #!my art

[sartorialadventure]

Street style at the Santa Fe Indian Market, photographed by Shayla Blatchford

Check out the source for article, more photos, and names of designers!

Another Vogue article on artists and designers at the Santa Fe Indian Market.

More images below the cut!

^ Natasha Ashley Brokeshoulder

“Natasha Ashley Brokeshoulder, for instance, who is Diné, wore a wing dress created by her father-in-law, while her breastplate was assembled by her husband. “I got the right to wear the regalia that I have from my husband, who is Absentee Shawnee from the Southern Plains,” she said, adding that it is respectful to gain permission from other tribes to wear their specific styles of garment.”

^ James Budday

^ Sharon Brokeshoulder

^ Zeke Arjeanas

‘Others chose a more historical approach to fashion. Zeke Arjeanas, who is also Diné and won first place in the men’s category, referenced the Long Walk of the Navajo (the 1860s deportation of this indigenous tribe from their native land) for his traditional Clothing Contest outfit. “What I’m wearing is a blanket—not a Navajo blanket, but an army-issued blanket that was issued to the Navajos [at that time],” he said. “With the army-issued blanket, it’s a lot thicker and scratchier versus a Navajo textile blanket, which was more fine, lightweight, and waterproof.”’

^ Two looks from Korina Emmerich with jewelry by Tania Larsson

“...the new collection of the New York–based designer Korina Emmerich (Puyallup), whose asymmetrical vests and graphic wool coats offered a modern interpretation of her tribe’s punchy aesthetic. She also used Gwich’in-inspired jewelry by Larsson, mentioned above, in the show. “What I admire in Korina’s work is her modern, impeccable cuts,” Larsson said. “There is a traditional element that is inherent within my work because of the materials that I use and through the process that they are acquired, such as trade and through community exchanges.””

^ Phillip Bread in a Matthew Charley squash blossom necklace

^ Marcus Winchester

#fashion #native american #native american fashion #native american art #jewelry #headdress #men's fashion #hairstyles #shawnee #dine

[ellearts]

I DID NOT SEE THIS LIVE?? MARTA?? MY QUEEN??? AND MAX???? HELOI,???

#holy shit i had a heartattcak #she is. #she ohmygod #holy #ohmygod. #im not fine #im so not dine #dine #Fine #i need to #im #hhgghhhhhhghh #marta garcia #a queen #the pic of the decade #max verstappen

[lanaflowerz]

Every day praising an indigenous character — Day 19 

Kai and  Kenneth from Ben 10

Kai is a young indigenous woman from the Navajo/Dine people and the wife of Ben 10,000. In the future they had a son who they named Ken. According to the Navajo Nation website, Ken can also be considered Navajo on his mother's side.

The Navajo (or Diné) are an indigenous people of northern Abya Yala, the Athapaskan language family, and the Southwest cultural area.

https://www.navajo-nsn.gov/Faqs

https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Kai_Green

#Ben 10 #ben 10 omniverse #Kai #Kenneth #Ken 10 #cartoon #Navajo #Dine #indigenous #native

[beyondtheadobe]

#beyond the adobe #western living #santa fe #dinetah #dine

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This week in Taos. The mountain, meadow and sky. :: [Geraint Smith]

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Walk in Beauty Always

Part of the attitude of the Navajo culture is the concept of Hozro, which is to Live in Beauty, Walk in Beauty Always.

Walking in Beauty: Closing Prayer from the Navajo Way Blessing

In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind me I walk With beauty above me I walk With beauty around me I walk It has become beauty again

Hózhóogo naasháa dooShitsijí’ hózhóogo naasháa dooShikéédéé hózhóogo naasháa dooShideigi hózhóogo naasháa dooT’áá altso shinaagóó hózhóogo naasháa dooHózhó náhásdlíí’Hózhó náhásdlíí’Hózhó náhásdlíí’Hózhó náhásdlíí’

Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body. I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me. I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me. I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me. I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful. In beauty all day long may I walk. Through the returning seasons, may I walk. On the trail marked with pollen may I walk. With dew about my feet, may I walk. With beauty before me may I walk. With beauty behind me may I walk. With beauty below me may I walk. With beauty above me may I walk. With beauty all around me may I walk. In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk. In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk. My words will be beautiful…

Click to hear the prayer spoken in Navajo by  Wanye Wilson, a Navajo member.

Linguistic Note: The word “Hozho”  in  Dine’  (roughly translated) Concept of Balance and Beauty. Consideration of the nature of the universe, the world, and man, and the nature of time and space, creation, growth, motion, order, control, and the life cycle includes all these other Navajo concepts expressed in terms quite impossible to translate into English.   Some Navajos might prefer the term: “Nizhoni” meaning  ‘just beauty.”

#walk in beauty #Navajo #Wanye Wilson #just beauty #Dine #Taos #New Mexico #Geraint Smith

[petitegoose]

#funny #gross #dine #wine #eat

[a-todd-illustration]

Duality of Chenoa. Fueled by anger and hatred, which slips into obsession and fear.

#myart #chenoa #native american #native art #navajo #dine #diné