Around the time that Columbus discovered America, the Navajo were settling in what would become the southwestern United States and eventually congregated around the "four corners" region where ...

The designs in the four corners of the rug represent the four sacred mountains to the Navajo people — Blanca Peak in Colorado, Mount Taylor in New Mexico, Arizona’s own San Francisco Peaks and ...

The Shiprock Trading Post now focuses exclusively on Navajo rugs, jewelry, pottery and other works of art. It's a transition that many other trading posts have had to make over the past several ...

Tom Wheeler, who will mark his 50th year of ownership of the Hogback Trading Co. in Waterflow next year, focuses on Navajo rugs, art, jewelry, drums and cradleboards, having made the transition ...

She shouldn’t have finished the rug, according to Navajo tradition, but she sat down in front of the loom and worked it until it was done. “Her mom never taught her how to weave,” Sandoval says.

After more than a year of being closed during the pandemic, Canyon de Chelly, Navajo National Monument, Hubbell Trading Post and Four Corners Monument have reopened to the public. As part of the ...

If you’re in Shiprock during the flea market, stop for a Navajo Taco or mutton stew, then continue West. Teec Nos Pos trading post is worth a stop, but not, in my opinion, Four Corners Monument.