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Navajo Hybrid Healing Hogan

Environment, Non-fiction

Nááts'íilid Initiative is an Indigenous-led and coalition-driven Community Development Collaborative (CDC) that integrates Diné teachings and building practices while fostering interpersonal connections between the homeowner and the home. Tohdenasshai Shelter Homes & Nááts'íilid Initiative partnered to construct a low-cost, builder friendly hybrid Octagon Hogan that utilizes sustainable building practices that blends conventional building materials and traditional local earthen materials.

Darrah Blackwater

Diné/Navajo, Non-fiction

Darrah Blackwater advocates for spectrum sovereignty in Indian Country, where the lack of broadband internet in rural Indigenous communities creates a digital divide.

Sardis

Choctaw, History, Nature/Environment, Non-fiction

Deep in the Choctaw Nation, a picturesque lake hosts an unusual sight: an island populated by rows of headstones. This cemetery floating in a man-made lake is the last relic of what was the town of Sardis, Oklahoma.