Pauly Denetclaw

Writer Pauly Denetclaw hopes visitors will arrive at the Navajo Nation with a new perspective.

July/August 2021 - The Texas Observer  The Texas Observer

In an ecosystem that needs fire to flourish, the actions of the Alabama-Coushatta could decide the future of the longleaf pine.

Two stories this week from our Indigenous Affairs desk dive into the thorny issue of belonging. Here’s why.

A new food documentary fails to recognize the complexities of Indigenous identity in Texas.

Cardona spoke about Texas literary scenes, her philosophy of writing poetry as archiving, and her advice for young Texan poets.

The Westside Sound refers to a specific place and time, beginning in the 1950s, when Mexican American teenagers in San Antonio first heard rock’n’roll.

November/December 2020 - The Texas Observer  The Texas Observer

For whatever reason, news organizations in Texas don’t report on Indigenous communities. The Texas Observer intends to be different.

Pauly Denetclaw is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and is the Indigenous Affairs reporter for the Texas Observer.

The perfect storm analogy might be apropos when assessing the dire situation of Gallup-McKinley County Schools (GMCS) as it attempts to slog through COVID-19 pandemic challenges.

Mary Tom was sick in bed battling COVID-19. Her mother was on the phone praying for her like she had done every day since Tom got sick. It was late March.

The COVID-19 virus, commonly referred to as coronavirus, is being monitored very closely by the Navajo Area Indian Health Service and Navajo Nation Department of Health.

At the beginning of the new decade, the state of New Mexico’s minimum wage increased to $9 an hour, Bill McCamley, the Division Secretary for the Department of Wage and Hour Secretary, told a room full of workers last week.

The presidential hopeful has branded himself as an affordable housing visionary. But his record in San Antonio on this issue is more complicated.

In the era of right-on-crime-backed efforts to curb mass incarceration, police unions have increasingly become a voice in the wilderness.

The policies announced Thursday range from refusing to prosecute certain drug cases to reforming probation and changing how the office handles crimes related to poverty and homelessness.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who died at 91 last week, liked pausing by roadsides everywhere in Texas to examine plants, pocket seeds and smell the air.

“The crew was amazing,” Sydney Freeland said about being a guest director on an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.” The Navajo filmmaker directed Episode 20 of Season 14 earlier this month.

Young entrepreneur starts own skincare product line