Miss Navajo
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Miss Navajo Nation is a pageant that has been held annually on the Navajo Nation, United States, since 1952.
The first Miss Navajo was Beulah Melvin Allen, in 1952.[1] She was crowned at the Navajo Nation Fair, the largest fair held on the Navajo Nation, which had been established three years earlier.
Pageant contestants must be unmarried, over 18 years of age, be a high school graduate, and be able to speak the Navajo language.[2] They compete in such activities as answering questions about traditional and modern Navajo customs both in Navajo and English, sheep butchering,[3] and performing a contemporary and Navajo cultural talent.
The current Miss Navajo Nation (2024-2025) is Ranisha Begay.
Film
A documentary film called Miss Navajo, directed by Billy Luther (who is Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna), was filmed in 2005 and 2006, released in 2006, and shown on the Independent Lens documentary series on PBS in 2007. Miss Navajo is a tradition that still continues today. Miss Navajo's duties as a leader are to guide and be a role model of the Navajo Nation.
Mission statement
The mission statement of Miss Navajo Nation is:
"In keeping with Navajo culture and tradition, the role of Miss Navajo Nation is to exemplify the essence and characters of First Woman, White Shell Woman and Changing Woman and to display leadership as the Goodwill Ambassador. Miss Navajo Nation represents womanhood and fulfills the role of 'grandmother, mother, aunt, and sister' to the Navajo people; therefore she can speak as a leader, teacher, counselor, advisor and friend. In March 1999, the Branch Chiefs of the Navajo government agreed that tone of the fundamental principals of the Navajo government should be the preservation of the Navajo culture. It shall be the mission of the Office of Miss Navajo Nation to encourage every Navajo to assist in the preservation of Navajo culture and Miss Navajo Nation will represent the importance of Navajo women with respect and honor."[4]
Dates are the year the title was awarded, not the year it was conceded to the following contestant.
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Beulah Melvin Allen
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Ida Gail Organick
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Charlotte Lawrence Greenstone
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Charlotte Lawrence Greenstone
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Charlotte Lawrence Greenstone (after this a limit-one rule was instituted)
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Emma Louise Anderson and Geraldine Morgan Pete
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Dorothy Curtis Fixico and Vivian Linda Arviso
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Elsie Curley Raymond and Joy Jean Sells Hanley
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Bernice Skeet and Roseanne Kellywood Bahe
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Lois Haskie Kansaswood and Alyse Neundorf
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Rowena Yazzie McCabe and Emma Joe
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Anna Mae Begay Fowler
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Sally Ann Zah Joe
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Carol Ann Yazzie Showalter
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Sarah Ann Johnson Luther
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Thelma Pablo Francisco
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Rose McCabe Wauneka
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Rose Ann Bekis Kenneth
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Linda Hanove Schweigman
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Genevieve Lee Salt
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Janet Yazzie Caller
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Delphine Curley Ludlum
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Gilene Begay
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Angela Barney Nez
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Rosita Tsosie Holiday
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Marilyn Help-Hood
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Bobby Bia
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Freda Jeli Nells
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Sandra Eriacho
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Dolly Manson
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Sunny Dooley
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Shirley Paulson
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Lorene Lewis
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Audra Arviso
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Diane Taylor
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Wena Jesus
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Sophina Shorty
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Geraldine Gamble
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Jennifer Jackson-Wheeler
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Sharon Watson Murray
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Tina James-Tafoya
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Tara Tsosie
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Karen Leuppe
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Audra J. Etsitty Platero
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Josephine Ann Tracey
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Radmilla A. Cody
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Sevaleah Begay-Tsosie
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Victoria Yazzie
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Karletta Chief
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Jolyana Begay-Kroupa
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Shaunda Tsosie
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Marla Billey
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Jannalee Atcitty
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Rachelle James
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Jocelyn Billy
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Jonathea Tso
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Yolanda Charley
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Tashina Nelson
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Winifred Bessie Jumbo
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Crystalyne Curley
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Leandra Thomas
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Natasha Hardy
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — McKeon Kova Dempsey
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Alyson Jeri Shirley
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Ronda Joe
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Crystal Littleben
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Autumn Montoya
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Shaandiin Parrish
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- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Niagara A. C. Rockbridge
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Valentina P. N. Clitso
- Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". — Amy Naazbah Reeves-Begaye
- 2024 — Ranisha Chrislyn Begay
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Radmilla Cody (1997-8)
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Crystalyne Curley (2011-2)
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Leandra Thomas (2012-3)
See also
External links
- Office of Miss Navajo Nation
- Miss Navajo Council, Inc official site
- Miss Navajo film
- MISS NAVAJO site for Independent Lens on PBS
References
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