Ray Landry

Adrian Quetawki, a community service aide for the Gallup Police Department, has picked up more than 1,000 people since he started working “ditch patrol” eight months ago. Community service aides scour the hills for inebriated individuals who are at risk of dying from exposure.

Walkers display banners and signs near Hogback, N.M., during a sunrise blessing for the Gold King Mine Resilience Run/Walk on Sept. 3.

Veterinarians wrestle a horse to the ground for its castration surgery on Aug. 24. Free birth control program was provided to help control the Navajo Nation’s free-roaming horse problem.

O’Neil Bileen, owner of TC Automotive Repair, inspects a vehicle’s suspension.

Navajo Preparatory School students listen to speakers during the 2018 graduation ceremony on May 19.

Atsa’ Biyaazh Community School 7th grader Krystal Lapahie air writes before spelling the word at the Northern Agency Spelling Bee on Feb. 22 at the Phil L. Thomas Performing Arts Center in Shiprock, New Mexico.

Navajo weaver Roy Kady talks about a European tapestry technique at his Teec Nos Pos, Ariz., home on Feb. 22.

Christy Cook, of Albuquerque, gazes over the desert landscape as she focuses on her music during the annual songwriting retreat in Many Farms, Ariz., on May 29.

Members of Taos Pueblo escort VA Interim Deputy Secretary Scott Blackburn through the village plaza in a traditional processional April 21.

Contestants for the Miss Northern Navajo and Miss Northern Navajo Teen pageants gather in front of the dressing room mirrors prior to the coronation ceremony Oct. 6 at the Phil L. Thomas Performing Arts Center in Shiprock, New Mexico.

Clifford Werito, 61, tells his story of kidney failure, dialysis and life-saving organ transplant with a photo of 35-year-old Jasper Yazzie during a ceremony on Dec. 7 at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico.

Artists Ivan Lee, left, and Richie Arviso add final touches to Ashlynne Mike’s portrait on The Healing Wall at the Northern Navajo fairgrounds on Sept. 26 in Shiprock, New Mexico.

Navajo literacy teacher Valencia Edgewater leads a class of community members in a pronunciation exercise.

A crew of seasonal workers moves pumpkins from the fields to a conveyer belt that delivers them to a truck.

Dancers compete in the annual Totah Festival on Saturday in Farmington.

Billed as the most remote community in the contiguous United States, Supai, Arizona, is located inside the Grand Canyon. Journalists were invited to the village to talk to Havasupai children and families who are suing the BIE.