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Hiking in Canyon de Chelly: Of Kit Carson, Scorched Earth, and Our Desperate Need to Listen

July 20, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / Diné, Dinétah, history, listening, Native Americans, Navajo Long Walk, racial reconciliation
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  It was a warm, blue-skied afternoon on our recent trip to Arizona and New Mexico, and Anthony and I were about to hike down into historic Canyon de Chelly. First Ted and Evie, our hosts and my dear friends for a number of years now, walked us to several of the most famous lookouts […]

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Canyon de Chelly, Kit Carson, Navajo Long Walk

God’s Guidance and 5 Small Loaves

July 16, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / 5 Small Loaves, ACFW, community, Diné, Dinétah, faith, God's faithfulness, growing, Mark Charles, Native Americans, racial reconciliation, trust
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    I sat on the carpet in their living room, with these friends in their home on the Navajo Nation, and shared my heart.   Last September, I’d just come from the ACFW conference in Indianapolis and then stopped to visit friends in New Mexico and Arizona. While staying with Mark Charles and his […]

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When A Story Begins to Own You: Special Double-Post with Jennifer Major

June 4, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / community, Diné, Dinétah, history, Native Americans, Navajo Long Walk, story, writing
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  Last week my friend Jennifer Major presented a question I’ve been pondering: “When did you know the story owned YOU?   Jennifer and I both write about Navajo history in our novels and have been blessed with the same Navajo/Anglo family to take us under their wings and teach us much. So today, we […]

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A Writer Goes A-Journeying…

October 23, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / ACFW, Diné, Dinétah, Native Americans, Navajo Code Talkers, writing
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So…I realized I never shared many snapshots from my most recent writer’s journey last month, to the ACFW conference in Indianapolis and then to visit friends and go a-researching once more in New Mexico and Arizona.Well, only one way to fix that! First, a peek into the ACFW Genre Night: I modeled a 1910-era white […]

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A Writer Goes A-Journeying…

October 23, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / ACFW, Diné, Dinétah, Native Americans, Navajo Code Talkers, writing
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So…I realized I never shared many snapshots from my most recent writer’s journey last month, to the ACFW conference in Indianapolis and then to visit friends and go a-researching once more in New Mexico and Arizona.Well, only one way to fix that! First, a peek into the ACFW Genre Night: I modeled a 1910-era white […]

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