At the age of 7, Amelia Earhart built her roller coaster using fence rails and roller skates. Aurelia Earhart and her younger sister Muriel often wore loose, flowery pants, which many women of the day disliked. In the first World War, Aurelia left college and moved to Toronto, Canada to become a nurse. help and […]
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When a Navajo girl reaches puberty (the time of her first menstruation), she undergoes a four day ceremony called Kinaalda which signifies her transformation from childhood into womanhood. The ceremony is centered around the Navajo myth of Changing woman, the first woman on Earth who was able to bear children. The myth says that Changing […]
In the late sixties or early seventies, the Navajo chose to revert to the name given to them by their Creator. That name was Ni’hookaa Diyan Dine, which translates to “Holy People.” The Dine (Navajo) believed that The Glittering World (earth) came about as a result of the emerging of three worlds beneath its crust. […]