In this week's episode, Clayton talks about the 4 sacred colors of the Navajo people, White, Turquoise, Black and Yellow. Each coming from a different direction/ White Shell represents the East, or the dawn, Turquoise represents the South , or ...

In this week's episode, Clayton talks about Navajo Core Values: Peace, Love, Joy and Harmony, he expands this way of thinking through 4 different stories. Each of these values can help us in our daily lives, with our school, our careers, and ou...

In this week's episode, Clayton interviews Latoya Benally, who is a Manufacturing Engineer with the Boeing Company, based out of Mesa, AZ where she helps to build AH-64 Apache Helicopters that are used to protect and help our military personal ...

In this week's episode, Clayton talks to College Student Amari Pierce of Stanford University , originally from San Juan County, UT, who is currently working on a Keyboard software to help better utilize the Navajo language and making it easier ...

In this episode, Clayton talks about Ghąąjį’ (which is also the name of the month of October) but is also celebrated in Diné Culture, as the beginning of a New Year, at the end of harvest and how we can take this time to think about how our...

In this week's episode, we interviewed Charlotta Lacy, who is currently a Navajo Language Teacher and Translation Specialist, she has worked for most of her life teaching and learning the Navajo Language, she discusses why its important to lear...

Westwater is Diné community that resides outside of Blanding, UT in San Juan County. And for many years, this community lived without running water or electricity which is a current issue for many Native Americans across the US. Today we inter...

In this week's episode, Clayton interviews Aaron Yazzie, a Mechanical Engineer with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where he designs mechanical systems for robotic space missions. He recently helped NASA work in collaboration wi...

In this week’s episode, Clayton talks more about Hózhó and how it can leads us in our lives in different ways, he talks about how Hózhó can help us become a better person and in turn how we can help our communities. Clayton focuses on diffe...

This week we interviewed Reagan, who is the Extension Professor at USU helping different communities and tribes with agriculture projects and helping to teach science and nature to kids. Reagan is also one of the board members for our non-profi...

Welcome to our new season of Hózhó Speaks! Today we've interviewed a local man who has worked with our communities in different ways, one way is that he has worked with Navajo Nation Judicial Branch and Navajo Police as a Peacemaker Liaison f...

In this final episode for this season, Clayton talks a little bit more about Sih Hasin (Self-Actualization), what it means to us, our people and our community, and Clayton talks primarily to those who are graduating, this new generation who can...

This week, Clayton interviews Shaina Sagg and Racheal Holiday, from the Utah Navajo Health System's Hozho'go Iina 365 program, as Community Health Specialists working with people across San Juan County to help achieve their wellness goals wheth...

In this episode, Clayton talks about Ázhi’ or Names, names that people have had in the past like warrior names and from our legends, things in nature and animals, and why it is important to us as Diné to recognize this, because all things in ...

In this episode, Clayton interviews Kristina Begay, a local Elementary School Teacher, who was awarded Teacher of the Year for 2021 in San Juan County, UT. Kristina is also our host Clayton's daughter, and they discuss about her childhood and h...

In this episode, Clayton interviews Arielle Platero, a recent graduate from Fort Lewis College with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and Minor in Mathematics, She's currently has an internship with Los Alamos National Laboratory and plans to ...

In this episode, Clayton discusses some of the Hardships that the Diné (Navajo People) have endured and that we are a resilient people, he tells a story of Naayéé Neizghání (Monster Slayer) and how he survived the difficulties of fighting ...

 In this episode, Clayton interviews Pete Sands, a Navajo Musician and Mabel Martin, a local Navajo Language Teacher about their new project - Navajo Highways. A Navajo Puppet show for the young and old alike to learn more about Diné Cult...

In this episode, Clayton interviews a local Medicine Man and Native Pottery artist Curtis Yanito, who also owns Yanito Baahozho Gallery in Bluff, UT. Curtis talks about a story of some local ruins and about how these places are sacred and sho...

In this episode, Clayton talks about how the Diné (Navajo People) didn’t have clans originally after the emergence, and talks about Changing Woman and how she gifted her family different gifts to 4 Original Clans - Kinyaa'áanii (The Towering H...

In this episode, Clayton expands on the ideas of the 4 Directions and why its important to Diné culture, talking about different aspects of our lives that can help guide us into living more along Hózhó. He talks about how he envisions each o...

Yá’á’teeh! Welcome to Hózhó Speaks. A New Podcast ,hosted by Clayton Long, a life long Diné teacher from Southeastern Utah, his clans are Lók’aa’ Diné (Reed People), Áshįįhi (Salt People), Tł’ízí Łání (Many Goats) and Tábąąhá ...