The Navajo community of Westwater is pictured on Friday, April 25, 2025. (Kyle Dunphey/Utah News Dispatch) Three weeks ago, the taps rumbled to life in Thomas Chee’s home. For the first time in ...

Hózhó nahasdlíí, the phrase repeated four times at the end of Navajo prayers, exemplifies the movement of Navajo ceremony and prayer from the cosmos to personal transformation.

For the Navajo, prayer cannot be understood apart from a person praying. 2 Prayer is a person acting to recreate the original oneness of God and man.

Sgt. Frankie Albert, a network operator from Division Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, assisted the chaplain with the invocation and benediction with traditional Navajo prayers.