Tohatchi News

Searching for family members of baby girl Gill, born in Gallup, NM on 04-02-1966. Private adoption, attending MD was Dr.

One of the great little tales of motivation is told by the popular children's book, "The Little Engine That Could." The little engine pulls a long train over what seems to be an insurmountable mountain by repeating the words "I think I can, I think I can." Tohatchi Elementary School students in Tohatchi, New Mexico did just that.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Principal driving force in turning Navajo school in N.M. around Five years ago, George Bickert became the principal for the Tohatchi Elementary School on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, and he turned academics into a challenge, rallied his teachers to really get to know the students, many of whom ...

I do think several staff members thought I was crazy, but I believed in the faculty and staff that we had.

Some students travel a much greater distance, as far as 45 miles on dirt roads that become impassable in bad weather.

Fifth grader Darius Yazzie's after-school chores include hauling water for horses and feeding chickens, while his classmate, Shanika Begay, rides a bus 15 miles each way through the rolling hills of this impoverished corner of the Navajo Nation.

Chris McGreal reports on the plight of poverty-stricken Native Americans as he continues his journey along Route 66 in the footsteps of the Joads, the family in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath who fled the Oklahoma dustbowl for California Interactive: Follow the journey on Day 3 The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Life on a Navajo reservation Link to ...

The four UNM students from the Combined BA/MD program accompanied by a School of Medicine medical student who conducted the Medical STARS workshop for Gallup high school aged students in Bread Springs .

Police said the arson occurred about 4:37 a.m. when Thomas Long, 20, of Tohatchi, and a 15-year-old juvenile entered the home of Sheila Morrison, 51, a teacher at the school.

Showing off their war paint are Tour de Rez participants, left to right, Alyssia Morris, 11, Tohatchi, N.M.; Megan Begay, 10, Chichiltah, N.M.; Valynn Nez, 10, from Fort Wingate, N.M.; Daniell Tolth, 13, of Fort Wingate; and Rayn Benett, 12, of Fort Wingate.

Lacey Becenti had four show lambs in the trailer as she waited in line to get the lambs ear-tagged Saturday morning at the Bi-County Fairgrounds in Prewitt.

Newly crowned Miss Twin Lakes Elementary School Princess Charlize Colle B. Fernandez poses with her father, Hindley Fernandez, May 21 at Twin Lakes Elementary School in Twin Lakes, N.M. Fernandez, a 2nd grader and of Filipino descent, introduced herself in Navajo.

State and local officials dedicated the first transportation project funded with stimulus money this week.