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Documentary highlights Navajo pageant, traditional values
By Felicia Fonseca
Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP) When young women head off to compete in the weeklong Miss Navajo Nation pageant, they bring along their evening gowns, jewelry, high heels, public speaking skills – and their butcher knives. This is no ordinary pageant. On the nation’s largest Indian reservation where tradition reigns, contestants are required to speak their native language, make fry bread and butcher an animal that represents life to the Navajos – sheep. |
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