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With Love From the Navajo Nation

Elvie Vanwinkle just finished this incredibly colorful Moki made with 100% Churro wool. Her granddaughter Peyton is sending love from the Navajo Nation. Something all of us could use right now!

This weaving won't last long:

Churro 1637, Moki, Elvie Vanwinkle, 25 1/2" x 27 1/2", $ 3,000

May 28, 2020
Beth Barth

Hand Washing Stations on the Navajo and Hopi Nations

Nizhoni Ranch Gallery received this information from Red Feather. Red Feather is a non-profit organization that supports American Indian Nations and who we have supported for years.

With the COVID-19 pandemic they have shifted their main focus of helping Navajo and Hopi with housing needs, to improving access to hand washing in communities without running water.

We hope you will consider making a donation to this worthy cause.

Soaring Rates of COVID & Lack of Access to Running Water Put Native Communities at High Risk

Navajo Nation now has the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the country, per-capita. Please help us reduce this number and protect valuable lives by improving access to handwashing in communities without running water.

One the best preventive measures for stopping the spread of COVID-19 and staying healthy is thorough handwashing. Yet, for many families living on the Navajo and Hopi Nations, doing so on a regular basis is a tremendous challenge due to the lack of running water in their homes. It is estimated that roughly 40% of Navajo homes lack running water, and a sizable portion of Hopi homes, as well.

It is recommended that people wash their hands for a minimum of 20 seconds, but when you have limited water supplies this can be a real challenge. Generally, most homes already have a method for securing water, whether this be hauling it themselves or having it delivered. They also have some type handwashing system in place, but they tend to be small, perhaps only a basin of water that is shared by multiple family members numerous times.

What is needed most is running piped water to every home in need, but this a massive undertaking that will take decades if not longer to implement. What is needed in the interim, to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and help with improving general hygiene, are easily accessible, durable, and high capacity handwashing stations. Fortunately, the nonprofit LavaMaeˣ has developed a DIY design and toolkit for a station that allows for up to 500 handwashings with one fill-up of the unit-pictured below.

Our goal is to raise enough funding to facilitate the construction of 100 units. At an estimated cost of $300 each we are hoping to raise a total of $30,000.00   Our plan for construction of the units is to use volunteer and homeowner labor.

Since first posting this idea on Facebook, we have had over 40,000 views. We do not pretend this an easy undertaking, nor that we have every detail solved. Procurement of materials alone poses significant challenges, but we cannot sit idly by and do nothing.  We must act, and we must do so now.

Both financial contributions and volunteer labor are needed.   Please help however you can, and we ask that you share this campaign widely with your family and friends. By acting quickly and collectively, we will make an impactful contribution to the health and safety of Hopi and Navajo communities during this time of crisis.

Warm Regards,

Joe Seidenberg
Red Feather Development Group
Executive Director

Donate Now

Red Feather Development Group
928-440-5119
Email: info@redfeather.org
Website: www.redfeather.org

May 22, 2020
Beth Barth

Tough Times on the Navajo Nation

By The Associated Press, 4/29/2020

Residents on the Navajo Nation will be under another lockdown this weekend as the tribe seeks to keep the coronavirus from spreading even further into communities.

The lockdown is the fourth the tribe has implemented. It comes around the first of the month when tribal members often travel to towns bordering the reservation to shop for food and other supplies.

Tribal officials say they are working with businesses on the reservation to create safeguards for Navajo elders, such as extending shopping hours exclusively for them and others who are at high risk for contracting the coronavirus.

Anyone who doesn't need to leave their homes for food, medicine or in the case of an emergency is being told to stay home.

“We don’t want to see any more lives lost, and we don’t want to see our Diné people sick," Vice President Myron Lizer said. "It's sad and it's devastating for many families.”

The weekend lockdown starts Friday at 8 p.m. MDT and ends Monday at 5 a.m. MDT.

As of Tuesday, the tribe’s health officials reported 1,873 positive cases of COVID-19 and 60 deaths. The 27,000 square-mile (70,000 square-kilometer) reservation stretches into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. 4/29/2020

Per-Capita, the Navajo Nation is just behind New York and New Jersey in the amount of people testing positive. FEMA has set up field hospitals in Chinle and Shiprock that will be operational by this weekend.

Apr 30, 2020
Beth Barth

25% Off Store Wide Sale!!

COVID 19 has hit the Navajo Nation incredibly hard. We have supported our weavers for close to 50 years, in good times and bad. This pandemic and economic crisis is no different. We will continue to supply wool to our weavers and pay them as they weave. Please help us support our weavers by taking advantage of our 25% Off Store Wide Sale! The discount will be applied when an item is added to your cart. You can also shop via email or phone!

We have many weavings that will be posted soon and that have never been offered. Also, if you are looking for something in particular and you don’t see it on our website – give us a call. We just might have it in the vault. 520-455-5020.

Robin and Beth

Apr 01, 2020
Beth Barth

More From Jackson Hole

Just spent 3 wonderful days at the Nizhoni Ranch Gallery in Sonoita AZ. We have been friends with Steve and Gail for over 30 years. They invited us to be their guests for a private house concert by Dave Stamey. It was awesome, amongst all the gorgeous Navajo weavings, baskets, Stickley furniture and antique lamps. It was an amazing magical setting. Steve and Gail were, as always, such gracious hosts and we are always blown away with the huge collection of museum quality Navajos, and Steve’s knowledge of each and every one of them. Of course, we left with a few rugs and baskets. How could we not!!! But we also left with a renewed appreciation for the quality of each piece, the love Steve has for each one, and their continued care and concern for the Navajo weavers that they support. They have founded the organization Forever Navajo to help the weavers and keep the Navajo weaving tradition alive.
Thank you, Steve and Gail for a memory of a lifetime. You are great friends.
Tom and Bobbie

Jackson Hole Navajo Rug and native american baskets

Jackson Hole Navajo Rug Nizhoni Ranch Gallery

Mar 04, 2020
Beth Barth

Off to Jackson Hole Wyoming!

Thanks T & B for sending us these pictures! The single and double saddle blankets look great and the Moki fits perfectly!

Nizhoni Ranch Gallery Testimonial

Mar 02, 2020
Beth Barth

Dave Stamey in the House - Private Concert Held at Nizhoni Ranch Gallery

Dave Stamey, Cowboys and Indians Magazine has called him “the Charlie Russell of Western Music.” Western Horseman Magazine has declared his “Vaquero Song” to be one of the greatest Western songs of all time. True West Magazine named him Best Living Western Solo Musician four years in a row.

Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. He has been voted seven times Entertainer of the Year, seven times Male Performer of the Year and Five times Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association, and received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists. He’s delighted audiences in twenty three states, and finds that he prefers this to being stomped by angry horses.

In November of 2016 Dave was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame.

Gail and Steve Getzwiller - Nizhoni Ranch Gallery hosted a private concert with Dave Stamey 2/25/2020. What a wonderful event!

Dave Stamey with Baxter Black and Cindy Lou
Baxter Black with Dave and Melissa Stamey.

Dave with Kat Crockett and George Whitmill

Good Dog Dave Stamey
Buy Dave's Stamey's great album, Good Dog!

Feb 27, 2020
Beth Barth

Elvie's Hits the Gallery

As always it was great getting caught up with Elvie! She has brought us a beautiful Moki style weaving. Very tight weave - signature Elvie. Aniline dyed wool along with some Indigo.

Dec 31, 2019
Beth Barth

Elsie Bia and Family at the Gallery

It is always special to have a weaver come to the gallery. Elsie brought her latest weaving. Beautiful Old Style Chinle. It will be up for sale in the next few days!

Dec 23, 2019
Beth Barth

That Explains It!

We haven't been able to figure out what has been happening to our roses... Hey, who left the gate open?!

Dec 17, 2019
Beth Barth

We Wish You the Happiest of Holidays and Joy in the New Year!

Dec 10, 2019
Beth Barth

Thank You for Sharing H.D.!

One of our newest customers was searching for a rug that would compliment his furniture collection from around the globe, his custom doors, tile floors and his father's original artwork.

He chose a weaving from our Exclusive Churro Collection, Cara Yazzie Gorman's Teec Nos Pos for his floor.

Just smashing!

Navajo weaving in interior design