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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]
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]
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.
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 ...
Then and Now: Caitlin Upton, Miss South Carolina Teen USA 2007. Jennifer Kline. October 10, 2019 at 10:02 PM ... In addition to booking modeling gigs, she was a finalist on "The Amazing Race" in 2010.
Miss Navajo was Billy Luther's first documentary film he directed. In this film, Luther explores the annual Miss Navajo pageant, which his mother won in 1966, and how contestants must demonstrate traditional skills such as language fluency and sheep shearing and butchery. It was produced and distributed by Independent Lens, a series on the PBS ...
Last year saw a transgender woman from Portugal place in the top 20. Months before the 2023 competition, 22-year-old Rikkie Valerie Kolle became the first transgender Miss Netherlands.