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Miss Navajo Nation is a pageant that has been held annually on the Navajo Nation, United States, since 1952. The first Miss Navajo was Beulah Melvin Allen, in 1952. [1] She was crowned at the Navajo Nation Fair, the largest fair held on the Navajo Nation, which had been established three years earlier. Pageant contestants must be unmarried ...
This is a List of Miss Navajo titleholders. The first Miss Navajo was in 1953. Past titleholders. Year Miss Navajo Home Town Age Notes 2023–24
Radmilla A. Cody (born 1975) is a Navajo model, singer, and anti- domestic violence activist who was the 46th Miss Navajo from 1997 to 1998. [3] She was the first biracial Miss Navajo and thus so far the only Miss Navajo partially of African-American heritage, her nomination sparked considerable debate over Navajo identity. [3]
Running time. 58 minutes. Country. United States. Languages. English. Navajo. Miss Navajo is a 2007 independent documentary film directed by Billy Luther. It follows 21-year-old Crystal Frazier who, alongside six other Navajo women, competes in a beauty pageant for the title of Miss Navajo Nation 2005–2006.
Life. Beulah Margaret Melvin was born in Eureka, California on July 19, 1937, moving with her family at 18 months old to Fort Defiance, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. [2] [3] [4] Her mother was a nurse at the Fort Defiance Indian Hospital. [4] In 7th grade, she moved to California and stayed there until she finished high school. [2]
Sunny Dooley. Sunny Dooley is a Diné storyteller born into the Saltwater Clan and born from the Water's Edge Clan. [1] She shares Hane', or Diné Blessingway stories, and is a former Miss Navajo Nation, having won the title in 1982. [2]
Arizona State University. University of New Mexico. Awards. Miss Navajo (2011) Crystalyne Curley is an American politician serving as the 11th speaker of the Navajo Nation Council since 2023. She is the first woman to hold the position. Curley was Miss Navajo from 2011 to 2012.
Jim Chee is one of two Navajo Tribal Police detectives in a series of mystery novels by Tony Hillerman. Unlike his superior Joe Leaphorn, the "Legendary Lieutenant", Chee is a staunch believer in traditional Navajo culture; indeed, he is studying to be a traditional healer at the same time that he is a police officer.