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About this Piece

This blog outline was developed for ENGL 609: Digital Writing at Radford University and represents my most personal artifact in this portfolio. Written for a general audience curious about Indigenous and Southwestern cultures, the piece pairs five Navajo animal teachers with five New Mexico Hispano spiritual figures to tell a dual portrait of cultural survival and identity. As a half Diné, half Hispano woman who grew up on the Navajo Reservation without fluency in either language, this blog is both a scholarly exercise in digital storytelling and a genuine act of cultural recovery. Rhetorically the piece employs narrative nonfiction, personal voice, and parallel structure to honor both traditions simultaneously while positioning my own identity as the living intersection of two peoples whose histories have unfolded on the same Southwestern land for centuries.

The Story Behind the Blog

NParham Closed Caption Video.mp4
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