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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.
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]
In the pale light of dawn at this year's Miss Navajo Nation pageant, 25-year-old Begaye and another contestant opened a week of competition with a timed sheep-butchering contest. Begaye says ...
Each contestant also has to demonstrate one modern-day and one traditional skill or talent. [1] Crystal ultimately places as runner-up. A year later, she speaks about how taking part in the Miss Navajo Nation contest allowed her to meet other people and think about the responsibility, courage and leadership expected of her as a Navajo woman.
The Miss Indian Arizona program is 60 years old, but it is also part of a new movement as Indigenous royalty serve as cultural ambassadors. Indigenous pageants defy the 'Indian Princess' myth ...
The 56-year-old actor traveled to the Navajo Nation on Saturday, Oct. 12, to participate in Walk to the Polls, a civic campaign to boost voter turnout among young Indigenous people in the 2024 ...
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]
Jill Biden spent the first day of a trip to the Navajo Nation listening to female tribal leaders whom she referred to as her “sister warriors," on the needs and priorities of the country's ...