ABSTRACT
As the current program manager of the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department and Northern Arizona University (NNAD-NAU) Branch Office and an alumnus of the NNAD-NAU student-training program, the author making her own way as an archaeologist along with many other Navajo students, and the road is not easy. The Navajo Nation has supported their education here at Northern Arizona University and their desire to become professional anthropologists and archaeologists. Since October 2004, and for the first time in NNAD's history, the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department is fully staffed by Navajo archaeologists and managers. Their work as Navajo archaeologists is far from over; in fact, it is truly just beginning. Although the Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Management Program was created in 1977 and the NNAD department in 1986, for the first time NNAD is totally managed and staffed by Navajo archaeologists.
