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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

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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When I Can’t

January 15, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / faith, Navajo Long Walk, racial reconciliation, scripture, song, trust
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When I can’t…make hurting children cooperate. This week when I helped during after school time at the transitional housing home, I had to have a supervisor’s help with both kids I was paired with. I didn’t seem to be able to get their attention, keep them on track, or maintain control. I tried to keep […]

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Remembering the Long Walk

August 1, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / Diné, history, Navajo Long Walk, writing
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Photo from the Long Walk It was my very first interview for the story just starting to germinate in my brain and heart. Despite living five years quite near the Navajo reservation, I really knew very little about that nation of people. But my dad knew a man willing to help—Potawatomi himself, but his wife […]

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