Oh! My! Gosh! Love this cuff.
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I’ve gotten Arizona Highways for several decades, and used to get New Mexico magazine (although I haven’t subscribed to NM Mag for a long time). I’ve been trying to narrow my pile down, and was going through some of the old New Mexico magazine issues and found this photo. It was in an article in the July 1997 issue about photographer Harvey Caplin. It didn’t specifically say when this photo was taken, but his other photos were from the '40s - '60s.
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A striking portrait by photographer Donald (Don) Blair. A bio of Mr. Blair (and additional photos) can be found at: https://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org
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This photo is from an online news article and was published in the “Farmington Daily Times”. Verbiage retained to allow proper credits. U.S. Navajo Code Talkers Day is celebrated annually on August 14.
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Patina, thank you for posting the photo!
Awhile ago, maybe 12ish years, we were in ABQ, and heading to eat at the Church Street Cafe. On the way I stopped at a nearby jewelry store to drop off some jewelry to be fixed. Several Navajo Code Talkers were sitting at the store selling signed copies of this book; of course I bought one. My father served in WW2, so this was extra special to me.
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I hope it’s OK if I share this here – on-topic re: code talkers, if maybe off-topic to the thread.
It’s not yet well known that during World War 2, Canada recruited Cree speakers as code talkers. Like the Navajo code talkers to their south, they were chosen because their indigenous language was complex and not well documented in print. However, it’s also a shameful fact that they were denied many of the veterans’ benefits they deserved, much less recognition for their extraordinary contribution during the war effort.
There’s a poignant short (15 min) documentary online here: Cree Code Talker
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Thank you @chamekke for sharing this; I didn’t know about it (and I’m a Canada fan!). I watched just a little, and when I have more time I’m going to enjoy watching the whole thing. My father served in the Atlantic (Navy), but I had an uncle who served in the Pacific (a Seabee), and was one of the ones that stormed some of the beaches. So I know he forever was grateful to the Code Talkers.
I can’t find it, I must not have kept the issue, but I think in this past year there was an editor’s letter in Arizona Highways that mentioned something about how the secret of the code talkers almost got let out through their magazine. It was so interesting, but for the life of me I can’t find it.
Thanks Tah for not minding a bit of straying off topic in this thread.
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No problem, Zia! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming… 
Jeremy Winborg, Colors of the Desert
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I’ve been thinning out my small horde of old Arizona Highways magazines. I found this photo on a page I had pulled out of one and stuck in another. I obviously liked it, and wanted to save it even though I didn’t keep the issue. It doesn’t say who the photographer is, but I think it is gorgeous.
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Thanks for finding this! I didn’t even know what issue it was in, prob around 2000.
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Please bear with me, these photos might not be the best, because they’re snap shots of pages in one of my old New Mexico Magazines. I found them as I have been weeding through old issues to thin them out. The article was about photographer Gary Langston who photographs Native American subjects. This first one seemed relevant because it’s of two Navajo code talkers.
And this one just made me catch my breath because of its beauty.
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The black and white horse 
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@Stracci That’s beautiful. I love art in all its myriad expressions.
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These two portraits are from the January issue of Arizona Highways. The issue features the Grand Canyon, and these photos were from an article about Native Americans who work there. The first is of Navajo Kelli Jones, who is an interpretive ranger.
The next is of Navajo Kelkiyana Yazzie who is also an interpretive ranger.
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From time to time, I have come across this photograph and always stop to enjoy it.
White Man’s Moccasins, 1954
Photographer Lee Marmon said that Old Man Jeff Sousea (above) would frequently sit in the village plaza, telling tourists tall tales about his secret gold mine and a root he chewed to keep himself strong for the women.
Apparently, artist Joe Cajero liked the image enough to create this bronze sculpture.
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I LOVE your barn, especially the stone foundation with the door. The mural is the “frosting on the cake”, as they say😊