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The Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, where a special collection of more than 1,700 reel-to-reel magnetic tapes, containing interviews with Navajo elders and medicine people conducted in the 1960s-1970s, is currently stored.

States return Indigenous oral histories to tribal control

Sep 23, 2022 ◇ Erika Bolstad/Stateline

The Doris Duke Indian Oral History Program, which captures the stories and fading languages of Indigenous people across the U.S., will digitize the materials stored at universities - but this time, tribes will have far more control. Read more»

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The Western subspecies of Joshua tree – found in Southern California and southwestern Nevada – has a main stem that makes the plant appear more like a tree than a yucca. Mormon pioneers named the tree after Joshua, who the Bible says led the Israelites into Canaan. To the 19th century settlers, the outstretched limbs appeared to mimic prayer.

Joshua tree is first plant to get California protections because of climate change

Dec 22, 2021 ◇ Jude Binkley/Cronkite News

The Joshua tree is an iconic symbol of the Southwest - and now, the Western Joshua tree is the first plant given protections under the California Endangered Species Act because of the effects of climate change. Read more»


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