Miss Navajo

This article is about the pageant. For the 2007 documentary film, see Miss Navajo (film).
Former Miss Navajo Crystalyne Curley speaking to a crowd after her coronation in 2012.

Miss Navajo Nation is a pageant that has been held annually on the Navajo Nation, United States, since 1952.

The first Miss Navajo was Beulah Melvin Allen, in 1952.[1] She was crowned at the Navajo Nation Fair, the largest fair held on the Navajo Nation, which had been established three years earlier.

Pageant contestants must be unmarried, over 18 years of age, be a high school graduate, and be able to speak the Navajo language.[2] They compete in such activities as answering questions about traditional and modern Navajo customs both in Navajo and English, sheep butchering,[3] and performing a contemporary and Navajo cultural talent.

The current Miss Navajo Nation (2024-2025) is Ranisha Begay.

  1. ^ John, Hannah (2022-10-03). "70 years of Miss Navajo Nation: History, part 1 of a series". Navajo Times. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. ^ O'Hara, Caitlin (13 November 2018). "Becoming Miss Navajo Nation". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  3. ^ "Inside This Year's Miss Navajo Pageant". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-03-08.