Courtesy | Miss Indian World Of the 21 Miss Indian World contestants, two are Diné from Arizona: Nizhoni Edgewater (right) ...

her home for most of her life and the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, of which she was a member. She was educated at the Santa Fe Indian boarding school. Polanco was among about two ...

Mary Frances Polanco, Jicarilla Apache, founder and first treasurer ... came together at Penn State University to form the American Indian Journalist Association, which later became the Native ...