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Hozho Speaks

A Navajo Bilingual Podcast talking about Navajo Language, Culture and History, while also helping the Navajo people and others learn about new ideas and concepts to better our communities.

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Update frequency
every 19 days
Average duration
28 minutes
Episodes
22
Years Active
2021 - 2023
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Colors Guiding Our Lives

Colors Guiding Our Lives

In this week's episode, Clayton talks about the 4 sacred colors of the Navajo people, White, Turquoise, Black and Yellow. Each coming from a different direction/ White Shell represents the East, or t…

00:29:16  |   Tue 22 Aug 2023
Navajo Core Values

Navajo Core Values

In this week's episode, Clayton talks about Navajo Core Values: Peace, Love, Joy and Harmony, he expands this way of thinking through 4 different stories. Each of these values can help us in our dail…

00:18:35  |   Mon 20 Mar 2023
STEM Journey with Latoya Benally

STEM Journey with Latoya Benally

In this week's episode, Clayton interviews Latoya Benally, who is a Manufacturing Engineer with the Boeing Company, based out of Mesa, AZ where she helps to build AH-64 Apache Helicopters that are us…

00:31:00  |   Wed 28 Dec 2022
Navajo Language and Technology with Amari Pierce

Navajo Language and Technology with Amari Pierce

In this week's episode, Clayton talks to College Student Amari Pierce of Stanford University , originally from San Juan County, UT, who is currently working on a Keyboard software to help better util…

00:30:59  |   Mon 28 Nov 2022
Ghaaji - Navajo New Year

Ghaaji - Navajo New Year

In this episode, Clayton talks about Ghąąjį’ (which is also the name of the month of October) but is also celebrated in Diné Culture, as the beginning of a New Year, at the end of harvest and how we …

00:23:00  |   Mon 21 Nov 2022
Navajo Language and Educating Ourselves with Charlotta Lacy

Navajo Language and Educating Ourselves with Charlotta Lacy

In this week's episode, we interviewed Charlotta Lacy, who is currently a Navajo Language Teacher and Translation Specialist, she has worked for most of her life teaching and learning the Navajo Lang…

00:25:37  |   Tue 27 Sep 2022
Westwater Progress with Albert Cly

Westwater Progress with Albert Cly

Westwater is Diné community that resides outside of Blanding, UT in San Juan County. And for many years, this community lived without running water or electricity which is a current issue for many Na…

00:31:49  |   Mon 19 Sep 2022
Navajo Language and Preservance with Aaron Yazzie

Navajo Language and Preservance with Aaron Yazzie

In this week's episode, Clayton interviews Aaron Yazzie, a Mechanical Engineer with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where he designs mechanical systems for robotic space missions. He …

00:37:59  |   Mon 25 Jul 2022
Hózhó Always Leads

Hózhó Always Leads

In this week’s episode, Clayton talks more about Hózhó and how it can leads us in our lives in different ways, he talks about how Hózhó can help us become a better person and in turn how we can help …

00:36:16  |   Mon 11 Jul 2022
Growing Sustainability with Reagan Wystalucy

Growing Sustainability with Reagan Wystalucy

This week we interviewed Reagan, who is the Extension Professor at USU helping different communities and tribes with agriculture projects and helping to teach science and nature to kids. Reagan is al…

00:33:05  |   Mon 04 Jul 2022
Peacemaking - Family Court with Stanley Nez

Peacemaking - Family Court with Stanley Nez

Welcome to our new season of Hózhó Speaks! Today we've interviewed a local man who has worked with our communities in different ways, one way is that he has worked with Navajo Nation Judicial Branch …

00:34:04  |   Mon 20 Jun 2022
TNT = Sih Hasin

TNT = Sih Hasin

In this final episode for this season, Clayton talks a little bit more about Sih Hasin (Self-Actualization), what it means to us, our people and our community, and Clayton talks primarily to those wh…

00:28:24  |   Mon 02 May 2022
Hozho'go Iina 365 with Shaina Sagg and Racheal Holiday

Hozho'go Iina 365 with Shaina Sagg and Racheal Holiday

This week, Clayton interviews Shaina Sagg and Racheal Holiday, from the Utah Navajo Health System's Hozho'go Iina 365 program, as Community Health Specialists working with people across San Juan Coun…

00:31:51  |   Mon 11 Apr 2022
Ázhi’ (Names)

Ázhi’ (Names)

In this episode, Clayton talks about Ázhi’ or Names, names that people have had in the past like warrior names and from our legends, things in nature and animals, and why it is important to us as Din…

00:32:17  |   Mon 21 Mar 2022
Teacher of the Year with Kristina Begay

Teacher of the Year with Kristina Begay

In this episode, Clayton interviews Kristina Begay, a local Elementary School Teacher, who was awarded Teacher of the Year for 2021 in San Juan County, UT. Kristina is also our host Clayton's daughte…

00:27:30  |   Mon 14 Mar 2022
Native Students and STEM with Arielle Platero

Native Students and STEM with Arielle Platero

In this episode, Clayton interviews Arielle Platero, a recent graduate from Fort Lewis College with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and Minor in Mathematics, She's currently has an internship with…

00:20:43  |   Mon 07 Mar 2022
Enduring Hardship (Achi'į’ Náhwii’ná)

Enduring Hardship (Achi'į’ Náhwii’ná)

In this episode, Clayton discusses some of the Hardships that the Diné (Navajo People) have endured and that we are a resilient people, he tells a story of Naayéé Neizghání (Monster Slayer) and how h…

00:36:13  |   Thu 24 Feb 2022
Navajo Highways with Pete Sands and Mabel Martin

Navajo Highways with Pete Sands and Mabel Martin

 In this episode, Clayton interviews Pete Sands, a Navajo Musician and Mabel Martin, a local Navajo Language Teacher about their new project - Navajo Highways. A Navajo Puppet show for the young and …

00:33:02  |   Mon 14 Feb 2022
Preserving Historical Sites with Curtis Yanito

Preserving Historical Sites with Curtis Yanito

In this episode, Clayton interviews a local Medicine Man and Native Pottery artist Curtis Yanito, who also owns Yanito Baahozho Gallery in Bluff, UT. Curtis talks about a story of some local ruins an…
00:27:47  |   Mon 07 Feb 2022
Origin of Navajo Clans

Origin of Navajo Clans

In this episode, Clayton talks about how the Diné (Navajo People) didn’t have clans originally after the emergence, and talks about Changing Woman and how she gifted her family different gifts to 4 O…

00:22:25  |   Mon 24 Jan 2022
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