Navajo Nation

The Opportunity to Do: Reflections from a visit to the Navajo Nation

Gwendolyn Flaherty of Agnes Scott College recently traveled to the Navajo Nation with Amizade. Throughout the experience, she found herself...

Meeting with a Navajo Code Talker

Recently, Amizade volunteer Theresa Ferraro alongside her friends from Weatherby Healthcare traveled with Amizade to the Navajo Nation for a...

Sharing and learning in the Navajo Nation

By Amizade alum Kira Traxler When given the option to go out of state and volunteer to work on a...

Amizade’s March Madness

1. APPALACHIA: In March, around 50 participants worked with Sustainable Williamson to build replicable strategies...

Navajo Nation: Something I Never Expected

The only expectation I had for my first trip to Tuba City, AZ was that the landscape would look very...

Santa Clara Track Team Runs in Tuba City

March 2014 marked Santa Clara University’s 10th consecutive year partnering with Amizade in the Navajo Nation for their Spring Break...

Chester Nez, Last of the Navajo Code Talkers

Chester Nez was among the first group of Navajo Code Talkers recruited in 1942, often referred to as the “Original 29.″ These 29 were the first to devise the code based on the Navajo language and chosen as a because its syntax and tonal qualities were almost impossible for a non-Navajo to learn, and it had no written form. The code was incredible successful and was never deciphered by the Japanese.

"Middle of Somewhere" – The Navajo Nation

I met the student group at the Phoenix airport and their professor after renting a 12 passenger van. The Amizade...

International Volunteer Day 2011

Today, December 5th, we celebrate the culmination of an online initiative by United Nations Volunteers to mark International Volunteer Day 2011-- an initiative intent on showing the world why volunteering matters. Since October, UNV has been accepting photo submissions that document volunteer action from every country across the globe—that’s right, every country

Celebrating Navajo Code Talkers Week, August 14 – 19, 2011

From 1942 to the end of World War II, more than 400 courageous men from the Navajo Nation answered the...

Coal Mine Canyon: A Hidden Wonder in the Navajo Nation

The narrow and desolate Highway 264, on the edge of the Painted Desert, takes one through the Navajo Reservation in...

The More You Stare, The More You See

One night over spring break this year, I was lying on the hood of a car in Tuba City, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation Native American reservation. Gazing up at the stars above, unobstructed by trees or buildings, I reflected on my week with new friends doing the same by my side. The stillness and peace was broken seconds later as one of our friends proclaimed, “the more you stare, the more you see.”