This website is dedicated in Leo's memory to supporting and exploring Navajo Values through weaving the Traditional Navajo Way

   Leo Natani was a respected former member of the Navajo Tribal Council and Shiprock Judicial District Court Navajo Peacekeeper Liaison for many years, dedicated to preserving the Navajo Legends and Cultural Values for children of the Navajo Nation. As an Elder, Leo was a Traditional Consultant with the U.S. Public Service Hospital. Read the Ashtl'o Guild Newsletter, Summer. 2006 in memory of Leo Natani

   Sarah Natani is an accomplished, acclaimed weaver and teacher of weaving the Traditional Navajo Way, and also an artist working in silver and clay. Sarah teaches at Dine College, Shiprock, N.M., leads workshops at Tablemesa, N.M., and for many years has travelled throughout the United States, even Europe, giving demonstrations, teaching workshops, and sharing Navajo cultural values. Leo Natani was an essential person in their venture.

   TahNibaa Naataanii, Sarah's daughter, is weaving and teaching workshops with Sarah. Her rugs and tapestries are recognized at such shows as the Heard Museum Fair, Northern Pueblo Arts and Craft Fair, the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial, and the Santa Fe Fiber Art Show where she has won several awards.  See a biography of TahNibaa.

See TahNibaa's new website (external link).

Read about Leo Natani's participation in the "Wisdom of the Elders" roundtable at the American Public Health Association conference in Washington D.C. on November 9, 2004.

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Sarah Natani's 2008
Navajo Weaving Workshops

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See photographs from Sarah's
Navajo Weaving Workshops
at Table Mesa

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• See Leo Natani at Table Mesa. Leo was honored by the "Our Elders Our Teachers" media campaign.



• See a Poster "Helping our Elders with their medicine is Good Medicine" published by the Northern Navajo Medical Center. Leo Natani represented the elder in this poster.
  
  
• Read an historical account of NATANA who was Leo Natani's paternal grandfather
  
  
• See a Poster of the movie, "Horse Song", which dramatically depicts the impact of diabetes on ten percent of Navajo adults today. See a photograph of the actors with Leo Natani, who played the part of the grandfather in this movie.
  
  
• Read two e.mailed letters written by Sarah and and Leo Natani about their family in Tablemesa.
  
  
• Read an e.mail from TahNibaa during Sarah's Navajo Weaving Workshop in Italy
  
  
• See a list of Internet websites referencing Sarah, Leo, and TahNibaa Natani
  
  
  

  Join weaver TahNibaa Naataanii during this day at the Eiteljorg Museum devoted to Navajo culture. Experience the entire process of making a stunning Navajo rug--from the shearing of sheep to the finished product. Learn about using natural dyes. Hear the story of The Goat in the Rug. And try your hand at weaving. White River Trader, the museum store, will feature Navajo art and jewelry.    Listen to an interview at the Museum with TahNibaa who tells about inheriting the physics of weaving from the ancestors.  Click HERE to hear the 22  minutes, 8.8 MB iTunes MP3 podcast on this website.

Send an e.mail to Sarah Natani.  It will be redirected to
TahNibaa L. Naataanii

See Coastal Web Weaver Homepage

February 2009