{"id":3488,"date":"2016-03-18T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2016-03-18T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:16:07","slug":"louva-dahozy-navajo-broadcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/louva-dahozy-navajo-broadcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Louva Dahozy &#8211; Navajo Broadcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navajo Oral History<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This documentary film was researched, photographed, edited and produced by students of Winona State University (Winona, Minnesota) and Din\u00e9 College (Tsaile, Arizona, Navajo Nation) during summer 2015. It contains stories Louva Dahozy of Fort Defiance, Arizona, told the students during several hours of interviews about her life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Louva conducted most of her interview in the Navajo language, English subtitles are provided.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsOCb3ON7yA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This documentary film is archived at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navajonationmuseum.org\/\">Navajo Nation Museum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnlib.org\/\">Navajo Nation Library<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winona.edu\/library\/\">Winona State University Library<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/library.dinecollege.edu\/\">Din\u00e9 College Library<\/a>, and will be archived at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nmai.si.edu\/home\/\">Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of the American Indian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/masscommunimania.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Navajo%20Oral%20History\">Navajo Oral History project<\/a>, a multi-year collaboration between the Winona State University <a href=\"http:\/\/masscommunimania.blogspot.com\/\">Mass Communication Department<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinecollege.edu\/\">Din\u00e9 College<\/a> \u2013 The official Tribal College of the Navajo Nation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Miranda-4565.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3489\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Miranda-4565-720x576.jpg\" alt=\"Louva Dahozy - Navajo Broadcaster\" width=\"610\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Miranda-4565-720x576.jpg 720w, https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Miranda-4565-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Miranda-4565-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Miranda-4565.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photos by Tom Grier, \u00a0Winona State University<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1994, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0University of Arizona <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College of Agriculture awarded <\/span><b>Louva McCabe Dahozy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> its Lifetime Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Louva McCabe Dahozy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has blended her interest in helping others with her Navajo religious and cultural values. She was born of the Haskaahaszoi clan and for the Kinyaanii clan. In 1994, the College of Agriculture awarded her its Lifetime Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While living in Parker, she worked with Cooperative Extension, assisting local communities in home economics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Louva returned to the Navajo reservation, she organized 4-H clubs, teaching hundreds about livestock, home economics, and cultural awareness. She established the first Navajo Homemakers radio program, which was broadcast in the Navajo language on eight stations for ten years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Louva, with help from Cooperative Extension, helped begin the North America Indian Women&#8217;s Association; she was elected first national chairwoman. This group directly sought funding from Congress to help solve local problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, Louva was a founder of the National Indian Council on Aging and helped organize Navajo Nation Council on Aging. She developed the first Navajo Illustrated Cookbook, using commodity and native foods. She was the motivating force behind a native foods analysis that proved they had a high nutritional value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asked about her lifelong work, Louva says, &#8220;I wanted to provide education for Navajo people, education that includes traditional and modern ways so that people might have better home <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: University of Arizona <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College of Agriculture<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Kitchen-Averbeck-0006.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3490\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Kitchen-Averbeck-0006-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Louva Dahozy in Kitchen\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Kitchen-Averbeck-0006-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Kitchen-Averbeck-0006-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Kitchen-Averbeck-0006-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Louva-Kitchen-Averbeck-0006.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navajo Oral History This documentary film was researched, photographed, edited and produced by students of Winona State University (Winona, Minnesota) and Din\u00e9 College (Tsaile, Arizona, Navajo Nation) during summer 2015. It contains stories Louva Dahozy of Fort Defiance, Arizona, told the students during several hours of interviews about her life. 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