“I’d love to just see us taking our spot in not just fashion, but the whole manufacturing industry too, where we can have control over our own styles, our own fabrics and things that we wear because what we wear is important, and it represents us in our beliefs.”

“You know it doesn't feel real and at the same time, it's been very exciting. I never would have seen myself or my mugs go as far as the Grand Canyon.”

“You hear it all the time but you don’t really know or expect it, you never know who's watching or who’s going to see your stuff,” he said. “When I started my business it was so important for me to have it on the reservation and now that I think back to it, I’m so glad I did. I think it would have been totally different if they (the producers) came to see my shop and I was in Farmington or somewhere off the rez.”

“We’re just another rung on that ladder, reaching the top for self actualizations of our artists to have their own store, their own promotions and their own culture here, benefiting them and having their voices shared and their benefits received for what they do.”

“I just like to always say we’re capable of doing things, we’re capable of making good business decisions. I’m really grateful for where I’m at.”

“We’re incorporating our Navajo teachings into everything we do. Coding, programming, application, even customer service.”

“What I want to do is make it so much easier for artists to just focus on what they do best, which is make and create. Our platform will handle a lot of the backend.”

“We don’t know what the future holds and I might as well go for something. I just told myself I’d rather try it and fail than to not even do it at all and always wonder what would have been.”

“Other people have the faith and the belief that I can do this. So really the last thing was to convince myself and to believe that I can do it because there are so many other people that say ‘you got this.’”

“I did everything with the bare minimum. But now I have my own shop, a really nice grinders, a heat treat oven, anvil, a nice forge and all these nice things that I’ve been working my butt off for.”

“If we use our camaraderie and women collaborate and if we can be cohesive, we can do a lot. We can really get a lot of work done.”

“I want it to be a place where people know they can come and feel welcomed and feel comfortable about being who they are.”

“We were able to do a lot of work and fill the gaps that the Navajo Nation was struggling with. Ever since then, we’ve just been working on providing the services that were just so needed.”

“We believe that there is a direct connection between nurturing the land and nurturing our children; by understanding how to grow traditional crops and preparing them for young children we are actively dismantling systems of oppression and rebuilding indigenous food ways.”

“If you were to ask the average person what rangeland is or about natural resources, they probably really don’t have a clear idea,. So, there’s a need to be able to manage that because that’s what most of the land base is on the Navajo Nation specifically, but also what most of the land base is across the United States. As we deal with climate change and protecting and preserving those spaces, it’s going to be super important.”

In a downtown Phoenix office sits a Diné woman using her business to change how Indigenous writers are published and seen.

“No matter how many hills you climb or how many miles you go, there’s always that end result of accomplishment and success when you put your mind to it and just be patient.”

“You’re looking at Navajo-owned businesses in rural parts of the Navajo Nation trying to support each other and help each other out.”

“You can’t limit yourself.”