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Yazzie Johnson
Yazzie is a name, derived from the Navajo word meaning "little" and may refer to: * Yazzie Johnson (born 1946), Navajo jeweler living in northern New Mexico * Aaron Yazzie (born 1986), Navajo mechanical engineer working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ... * Allan Yazzie, Navajo educational advocate * Brian Yazzie, known as Yazzie the Chef, Navajo chef * Jolene Yazzie (born 1978), Navajo graphic designer in Arizona * Melanie Yazzie (born 1966), Navajo printmaker, sculptor, and professor in Colorado * Rhiana Yazzie, Navajo playwright, actor, and filmmaker * Sybil Yazzie (born c. 1917–1918), Navajo painter * Steven Yazzie (born 1970), Native American artist * Larry Yazzie, Navajo Sculptor {{surname, Yazzie Native America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navajo Language
Navajo or Navaho (; Navajo: or ) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America. Navajo is spoken primarily in the Southwestern United States, especially on the Navajo Nation. It is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages and is the most widely spoken north of the Mexico–United States border, with almost 170,000 Americans speaking Navajo at home as of 2011. The language has struggled to keep a healthy speaker base, although this problem has been alleviated to some extent by extensive education programs in the Navajo Nation, including the creation of versions of the films Finding Nemo and Star Wars dubbed into Navajo. The United States in World War II used the Navajo language to develop a system of code talkers to relay messages that could not be cracked. Navajo has a fairly large phoneme inventory, including several uncommon consonants that are not found in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazzie Johnson
Yazzie is a name, derived from the Navajo word meaning "little" and may refer to: * Yazzie Johnson (born 1946), Navajo jeweler living in northern New Mexico * Aaron Yazzie (born 1986), Navajo mechanical engineer working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ... * Allan Yazzie, Navajo educational advocate * Brian Yazzie, known as Yazzie the Chef, Navajo chef * Jolene Yazzie (born 1978), Navajo graphic designer in Arizona * Melanie Yazzie (born 1966), Navajo printmaker, sculptor, and professor in Colorado * Rhiana Yazzie, Navajo playwright, actor, and filmmaker * Sybil Yazzie (born c. 1917–1918), Navajo painter * Steven Yazzie (born 1970), Native American artist * Larry Yazzie, Navajo Sculptor {{surname, Yazzie Native America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Yazzie
Aaron Yazzie (born 1986) is a Diné (Navajo) mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His work involves planetary sample acquisition and handling. He has worked on the Mars Science Laboratory, InSight, and Mars 2020 missions. Early life and education Yazzie is (Salt Clan) and born for (Bitter Water Clan). He was born in 1986 in Tuba City, Arizona, part of the Navajo Nation, and raised in Holbrook, Arizona, where his father was a civil engineer and his mother was a math teacher. Yazzie had originally planned on attending a public university in Arizona, but he decided to apply to Stanford University after meeting an admissions counselor at a pre-college summer program for Native Americans. While at Stanford, he interned at two NASA research centers: the Goddard Space Flight Center and the Glenn Research Center. He graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. Jet Propulsion Laboratory career Yazzie joined the Jet Propulsion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating the NASA Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars 2020 mission, which includes the ''Perseverance'' rover and the '' Ingenuity'' Mars helicopter; the Mars Science Laboratory mission, including the ''Curiosity'' rover; the InSight lander (''Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport''); the ''Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter''; the ''Juno'' spacecraft orbiting Jupiter; the ''SMAP'' satellite for earth surface s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Yazzie
Native American self-determination refers to the social movements, legislation and beliefs by which the Native American tribes in the United States exercise self-governance and decision making on issues that affect their own people. Conceptual origin Self-determination is defined as the movement by which the Native Americans sought to achieve restoration of tribal community, self-government, cultural renewal, reservation development, educational control and equal or controlling input into federal government decisions concerning policies and programs. The beginnings of the federal policy favoring self-determination dates back to the 1930s. In 1933 John Collier, a social worker and reformer who had long worked in American Indian affairs, was appointed commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was likely the most knowledgeable person about American Indians appointed to this position up until then. He respected tribal cultures and valu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Yazzie
Brian Yazzie, known as Yazzie the Chef is a Navajo chef. He celebrates and promotes Indigenous American foods. He was born in the Navajo Nation in Dennehotso, Arizona. He moved to Minnesota in 2013. In 2014, he became the chef de cuisine at Sean Sherman's the Sioux Chef. In 2016, Yazzie and his wife Danielle Yazzie-Polk founded Intertribal Foodways, a catering company in St. Paul. The company prepares Indigenous meals and leads demonstrations for Native American communities. In 2020, he started working at Gatherings Cafe, but it shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he partnered with the Minneapolis American Indian Center to prepare hundreds of meals for elderly people and delivering them for free. Yazzie is a member of I-Collective, a group of indigenous chefs, farmers, foragers, hunters, and food historians. He is also involved with Slow Food and was a delegate to Terra Madre Salone del Gusto in Turin, Italy and to Indigenous Terra Madr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jolene Yazzie
Jolene Nenibah Yazzie is an American graphic designer, specializing in comic art. Her artwork predominantly features women as Native American warriors, and she utilizes bright colors and contrast in her works. Early life Yazzie was born and raised in Lupton, Arizona. She went on to earn her B.A. in graphic design from Collins College. Afterwards, she attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When Yazzie was a young child, she was introduced to art at an early age by her brother. Her mother was an important figure in her life growing up, and she inspired Yazzie in her artworks. As a child, she had trouble finding women superheroes in the comics that she liked to read, aside from Wonder Woman. Artistic influence Navajo art and the art of storytelling is a major foundation in Yazzie's works. Because of the similarities of telling a narrative story in both comics and traditional Navajo art, the ability to combine the two is possible; according to Yazzie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Yazzie
Melanie Yazzie is a Navajo sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. She teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Early life and education Yazzie was born in 1966 in Ganado, Arizona, United States. She is Navajo of the , born for ."Holding the Truth: Reflections of a Navajo Artist" ''WGBH Forum Network''. (Retrieved 17 Jan 09) She grew up on the . Melanie Yazzie is of the Salt Water Clan born for the Bitter Water Clan. She first studied art at the in Pennsylvan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhiana Yazzie
Rhiana Yazzie is a Navajo playwright, actor, and filmmaker. She is based in the Twin Cities where she founded New Native Theater in 2009. Early life An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, Yazzie grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to her mother, she's been telling stories since she was a child. Education and career Yazzie attended the University of New Mexico from 1995 to 1999, earning a bachelor's degree in theater. From 2000 to 2002 she attended the University of Southern California and earned a master's degree in professional writing. She moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ... for Playwrights' Center Fellowship, calling the city a "Mecca for Native arts, writing, ndculture. She was awarded the Playwrights' Center Jer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Yazzie
Sybil Lansing Yazzie Baldwin (May 14, 1916 – November 25, 2002) was a Diné (Navajo) painter active in the 1930s. About Yazzie was a pupil of Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS), considered the birthplace of contemporary Native American easel painting. In annual student exhibitions of 1935, 1936, and 1937 at SFIS, critics such as Olive Rush and Frederic Douglas described Yazzie's work as "sensitive" and "outstanding", and showing "a miniature style of great beauty". While she was still a student at SFIS in 1937, her 1935 work ''A Crowd at a Navajo N'Da-a'' in tempera on paper, was exhibited in London and Paris. One critic said that it was "not naive and childish, but a finished work of art, expert in craftsmanship, intricate in detail, and unerring in color." Yazzie's work was also exhibited at the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1970 and at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in 2009–10. Her address was given in 1968 as the Garcia Store in Chinle, Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Yazzie
Steven Yazzie (born 1970) is a Native American artist, who is enrolled in the Navajo Nation and of Laguna Pueblo descent of his father's side. He creates video art and installation environments but described painting as his first and most important medium. Personal life Yazzie was born in Newport Beach, California, during 1970 and has three younger brothers. His parents divorced when he was four and less than a year later his mother married to a Navajo man. When he was six years old Yazzie's stepfather moved the family to an Arizona reservation in Black Mesa. Yazzie later joined the Marine Corps and participated in the first Gulf War, in Desert Storm and Desert Shield. When he returned Yazzie discovered that his paternal grandfather had participated in World War II as a code-talker. His grandfather has inspired and been included in many pieces. Education Yazzie completed his bachelor of fine arts degree in intermedia at Arizona State University. He graduated from the Herberge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native American Surnames
Native may refer to: People * Jus soli, citizenship by right of birth * Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory ** Native Americans (other) In arts and entertainment * Native (band), a French R&B band * Native (comics), a character in the X-Men comics universe * ''Native'' (album), a 2013 album by OneRepublic * ''Native'' (2016 film), a British science fiction film * ''The Native'', a Nigerian music magazine In science * Native (computing), software or data formats supported by a certain system * Native language, the language(s) a person has learned from birth * Native metal, any metal that is found in its metallic form, either pure or as an alloy, in nature * Native species, a species whose presence in a region is the result of only natural processes Other uses * Northeast Arizona Technological Institute of Vocational Education (NATIVE), a technology school district in the Arizona portion of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
