Anne Minard is an award-winning journalist and book author in Flagstaff, Arizona. She loves living in the southwest, where her stories -- and an extraordinary lifestyle -- arise from the land.
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Recent Publications
- Navajo Generating Station Lease Approved, 15 Amendments Attached
- 9th Circuit Allows Hopi Case Against Arizona Snowbowl to be Heard
- Native Hip Hop Artists Come Together for 'Thru Tha Southwest'
- Navajo Nation Band Performing Today at Presidential Inauguration
- Agricultural Co-op Teaches Navajos How To Butcher a Hog
- Navajo Nation Taking Control of Coal Mining on Reservation
- The Bennett Freeze's Surreal Nightmare Should Be Ending—But It's Not
- Study: Colorado River Water Supply Slowly Falling Short of Users
- Navajos Original Graduates Ready to Cleanup Superfund Sites
- Arizona Snowbowl Protestors Charged in Federal District Court
Want to be amazed? Spend some time near Sunflower Butte on the Navajo Nation. Dry farming persists here, despite ongoing drought.
U.S. Highway 163, a long-time favorite, winds through Monument Valley and guarantees breathtaking views.
Ed Kabotie is a Hopi artist and musician. He says the recent 9th Circuit Court decision to allow snowmaking with reclaimed water on the San Francisco Peaks is an example of Koyaanisqatsi, a Hopi word meaning "life out of balance."
Dry farming has persisted for thousands of years in the most arid regions of the Four Corners area.
A Navajo elder shows corn kernels to a boy during a traditional farming workshop north of Holbrook, AZ.
And when I'm not writing ... Recent climbing trip to Jack's Canyon, on a cold day.
A javelina bite, maybe, turned this prickly pear cactus into a heart.
Zapotec weaver in Zihuatanejo, Mexico
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This is my jacket, but not my dog, at the base of a popular climbing area (The Pit) near Flagstaff.
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Start of the 2010 Paatuwaqatsi (Water is Life) Run at Hopi
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Campsite at the base of Fisher Towers in Utah
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Cedar (my dog)
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Squash blossom, North Leupp Family Farms on the Navajo Nation near Flagstaff
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Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado
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A local girl fishes at the Frances Short Pond as the Shultz Fire rages on the San Francisco Peaks. The fire burned 15,000 acres (61 square kilometers) in June of 2010.