April 25 marks the University of Arizona’s 43rd Annual Miss Native American Pageant at the Tornabene Theater at the College of Fine Arts. The pageant, organized by the student-led club Miss Native ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - When young women head off to compete in the weeklong Miss Navajo Nation pageant, they bring along their evening gowns, jewelry, high heels, public speaking skills — and their ...

Beauty pageants are an American tradition. From big hotel ballrooms to tiny auditoriums around the country, young women strut in ball gowns and high heels, vying for everything from Ms. Corn Silk to ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Codi High Elk was a shy teenager most comfortable caring for horses on her family's ranch on the Cheyenne River Reservation when she threw away an application to compete in a ...

For the first time in about a century of “Ramona” pageants, a Native American will be directing the outdoor play that spotlights how Native Americans were treated in California’s early days as a state ...

Third grade contestant Taryn Williams demonstrates how to tie a traditional Navajo tsiiyééł hair bun on mom Kateri Slim during the talent portion of the Puente de Hózhó Diné Prince and Princess ...