DinéTah Navajo Dancers
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording
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content: 2024 June 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2024, Item SFF2024_0627_IVA_FourDirections_0005
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copy available
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content: Cindy Benitez (Presenter); DinÈTah Navajo Cultural Program: Shawn Price (director, drums, vocals, rattles, Navajo Nation); Tavish Brown (asst. director, drums, vocals, rattles, Navajo); Rob Felson (manager, drums, vocals, rattles, Navajo/Irish); Brandon Livingston (dancer, Navajo); Jade Largo (dancer, Navajo); Vera Brown (dancer, Navajo); Azalea Cayaditto (dancer, Navajo/Pueblo); Karolina Chapo (dancer, Navajo); Shanell Benally (dancer, Navajo); Devin Warner (Navajo) The DinÈTah dancers present traditional dances that are linked with seasonal and ceremonial life, as well as dances that honor veterans and those who tell stories, performed in DinÈ bizaad, or Navajo language. DinÈTah was founded in 1993 by Shawn Price, a historian and knowledge keeper, to promote the practice and understanding of Navajo cultural heritage. The intergenerational group performs frequently around the American Southwest and across the country. With traditional and modified songs and dances, DinÈTah performances are an expression of enduring DinÈ values. The name DinÈTah, meaning "among the people," is the name for the Navajo homeland in the Four Corners region.