Hózhǫ́ Naasháa Ambassadors

 

 

Meet our 2024-2025 Hózhǫ́ Naasháa Ambassador's

 

 Ciera Charley is Navajo Preparatory School’s Miss Hózhǫ́ Naasháa. She serves as one of two cultural ambassadors for the school. She is from Chinle, AZ,. She is a junior at Navajo Prep and is pursuing an International Baccalaureate Diploma in addition to her Navajo Prep diploma. She proudly participates in Speech and Debate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bradley Redhouse is Navajo Preparatory School’s Mr. Atsá Hastiin. He serves as one of two cultural ambassadors for the school. He represents the Tsaile community and attends Navajo Prep. He is a junior at Navajo Prep and is pursuing an International Baccalaureate Diploma in addition to his Navajo Prep diploma.

 

 

 

 

 

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Hózhǫ́ Naasháa - Walking in Beauty Walking in Beauty: “Hózhǫ́ Naasháa”

The four cardinal directions principles defined below are the “beauty way path” in the sense that beauty exists within us and around us as the light reflects through a rainbow. The symbol of the rainbow is our sovereign communication with creator.

“Hózho means “natural order.” The term natural order is temporal time, cardinal directions, cycles of seasons correlated with principles placed in the four cardinal directions for a life journey.

THE FOUR CORN-POLLEN FOOTSTEPS

The principles placed within the four cardinal directions are blessing way teaching translated to English as “the four corn-pollen footsteps”: child-youth-adult-elder.

 

  EAST - WHITE

Child: sunrise-spring-spiritual moral standards for living

SOUTH - BLUE

Youth: noon-summer-learning/work/transportation

WEST - YELLOW

Parent: sunset-autumn-family/home/story-telling/ceremony

NORTH - BLACK

Grandparent: midnight-winter-SELF-reverence/reverence for the natural order/hope/restoring resources

CENTER - RED

Fireplace/hearth of home: spiritual family love

Once one has experienced a ceremonial change process to correct the state of dis-ease/disease, their journey is in the natural order. Then we are living the loving way,in right relationship to the elements of the four cardinal directions. When we travel through life in this way we are walking in beauty.