Leo Natani, was a respected former member of the Navajo Tribal Council and Shiprock Judicial District Court Navajo Peacekeeper Liaison for many years, dedicated to preserving the Navajo Legends and Cultural Values for children of the Navajo Nation. As an Elder, Leo was a Traditional Consultant with the U.S. Public Service Hospital.

   Sarah Natani is an accomplished, acclaimed weaver and teacher of weaving the Traditional Navajo Way, and also an artist working in silver and clay. Sarah teaches at Dine College, Shiprock, N.M., leads workshops at Tablemesa, N.M., and for many years has travelled throughout the United States giving demonstrations, teaching workshops, and sharing Navajo cultural values.

Read about Leo Natani's participation in the "Wisdom of the Elders" roundtable at the American Public Health Association conference in Washington D.C. on November 9, 2004.

See photographs of Sarah and Workshop participants at Table Mesa Weaving Workshops

• Read about Sarah Natani's Navajo Weaving Workshops. Leo Natani was an essential person in their venture.
  
  
• See Leo Natani at Table Mesa. Leo was honored by the "Our Elders Our Teachers" media campaign.
  
  
• See a Poster "Helping our Elders with their medicine is Good Medicine" published by the Northern Navajo Medical Center. Leo Natani represented the elder in this poster.
  
  
• Read an historical account of NATANA who was Leo Natani's paternal grandfather
  
  
• See a Poster of the movie, "Horse Song", which dramatically depicts the impact of diabetes on ten percent of Navajo adults today. See a photograph of the actors with Leo Natani, who played the part of the grandfather in this movie.
  
  
• Read about Sarah Natani's Navajo Weaving Workshops at Table Mesa, New Mexico. Leo Natani was an essential person in their venture.
  
  
• Read two e.mailed letters written by Sarah and and Leo Natani about their family in Tablemesa.
  
  
• Read an e.mail from Sarah's Navajo Weaving Workshop in Italy
  
  
• See Sarah Natani Archive of Photographs in a Navajo Lifeways archive.
  
  
• See a list of Internet websites referencing Sarah, Leo, and TahNibaa Natani
  
  

• See a "Visual Joke" submitted by Leo Natani
  
  
• Read the complete text of the "TREATY Between The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and the NAVAJO TRIBE OF INDIANS, 1868, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States" - includes all Articles and Signatories. (368 kb PDF)
  

Send e.mail to Sarah and Leo Natani

See Ashtl'o Navajo Weaving Guild Homepage
See Coastal Web Weaver Homepage

July 2006