Listening Woman (1978)

One of the largest ranches in the world, this cattle ranch is located in South Texas and was founded in 1853 by Richard King. It is 825,000 acres and was named a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

The term for biological relatives, including both men and women.

A personal item that holds sentimental significance and is cherished and kept for emotional reasons, regardless of its utility or monetary value.

Kayenta, a small town in Navajo Country, AZ, sits at the intersection of US Highways 160 (formerly Navajo Route 1) and 163 on the Navajo Nation, about 25 miles south of the iconic Monument Valley. The community was home to an early day school, a tuberculosis sanatorium that became an Indian Health Service hospital, and several trading posts. The Navajo call this community "Tó Dinéeeshzhee,” which means "Fringed Water" or "Fingers of Water." There have also been several archaeological digs and explorations based out of Kayenta.

The name Kaibito Plateau comes from the Navajo word "K'ai'bii'Tó," which means "spring in the willows." The plateau lies between Page and Tuba City, Arizona. A request to the Navajo Nation must be given in order to access the plateau.

Kado is the term for the Kiowa Sun Dance, a ritual ceremony performed across the Great Plains by various tribes, including the Arapaho, Blackfoot, Comanche,Kiowa, Sioux, Ute, and more recently the Navajo. The primary purpose for the ceremony is to perpetuate the cycle of life by symbolically defeating spiritual and physical challenges during the course of the ritual, which can last as many as four days. The ceremony is also an expression of gratefulness to the creator for the generosity enjoyed during the previous year. The ceremony is one of reciprocity at many levels: between dancers and their instructors, between the participants and the dancers, and between the celebrants and the broader universe.

Justin Boots is a footwear brand founded in 1879 by H. J. Justin when he moved from Indiana to Texas. The company has expanded since then and is now owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, but it still specializes in cowboy boots.

These evergreen conifers feature leaves that are like scales rather than the needles associated with pine trees. Junipers are well-adapted to hot, arid environments such as the high desert plains and mountains of the U.S. Southwest due to their extensive root systems. Native Americans, such as the Navajo, have traditionally used juniper to treat a range of maladies, including diabetes. Native Americans have also used juniper berries as a female contraceptive.

Junipers tend to grow and migrate in conjunction with the ebb and flow of pinyon pine stand secession. An over-abundance of junipers encroaching into a stand of pinyon pine indicates long-term drought or other ecosystem disturbances, such as over-grazing. In the U.S., the pinyon-juniper woodland range spans from New Mexico to southeastern California. It extends through the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and higher elevations of the Mohave Desert.

A vernacular reference to the adoption of Christianity by Native Americans. In many, but not all, cases, the "road to Jesus" was long, heartbreaking, and ultimately a colonial expression of forced acculturation. Contemporary usage of the phrase does not necessarily refer to the term's colonial history of violence, but the valence of subjugation is doubly resonant in that the journey toward Christianity for both Jesus and Native Americans was a bloody one.

A pair of fused bones that make up the lower portion of the heads of creatures. Also known as the mandible, the lower jawbone hinges just under the cheekbone and is used to crush, pulverize, and masticate solid food.