Keyshawn Whitehorse says a prayer in his Navajo language before he rides a bull competitively. “It keeps me grounded in who I am and where I come from,” he said. Whitehorse, 27, will be competing in ...

On behalf, President Buu Nygren congratulates Rocker Steiner on earning the 2025 World Bareback Riding Championship following ...

Spud Jones, who ascended to new heights in rodeo when he became the first Navajo bull rider to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo in 2008, providing inspiration to Indigenous bull riders in New ...

We're now halfway through the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, and if there's one trend that's beginning to stand out, it's that Team Navajo Nation has dominated team roping. That would be Derrick ...

“Rodeo on the Navajo Nation is sort of embedded into our upbringing,” Diné athletic director Shawn Frank said. Rodeo coach Ed Hoylan calls it the “livelihood” of the Navajo people. Much like the rest ...

RENO, Nev. — Fresh off his latest appearance at the 2017 Reno Rodeo, Derrick Begay is a hopeful Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world champion team roper this year. Begay, a member of the ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Kicking up a cloud of dust, the men riding bareback were in a rowdy scramble to be the first to lean down from atop their horses and grab hold of the chicken that was buried up to ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – On the Navajo Nation – where cowboy hats and big buckles are everywhere – three team ropers are creating a buzz with their success at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Aaron ...

Navajo maidens lining up for the annual beauty pageant, the sheriff of the local Apache County signing up deputies for the fight against drugs and a doom-laden white preacher handing out free Gideon ...

PAGE — A Navajo family with a century-old legacy in horsemanship plans its ninth annual rodeo this weekend. Holgate's Junior Rodeo, named rodeo of the year by the Indian Junior Rodeo Association every ...