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Native Entrepreneurs are Changing Rez Life

August 15, 2025
Two women sit indoors; one speaks with a hand gesture while the other listens. People and tables are visible in the background through a glass wall.

Green fields and a basketball hoop line the road to Roddell Denetso’s sports apparel shop in Shiprock, a town on the Navajo Nation, in northwest New Mexico. Inside, racks of uniforms take up almost half the space, and the name of his business — Black Streak Apparel, in honor of his grandmother — is painted…

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Six years after her son’s homicide, a Navajo mother still searches for answers

May 12, 2025
A woman sits on a red couch holding a San Juan College certificate, surrounded by framed photos and posters featuring a young man and family pictures.

This story was originally published at New Mexico In Depth, a NMPBS partner. This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit and Transgender People (MMIWG2T). By Bella Davis, New Mexico In Depth On a summer evening in 2019, a…

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