Sunny Dooley, based in Vanderwagon, New Mexico, is a storyteller, folklorist and cultural consultant – collecting, learning and retelling the oral tradition of the Diné Hozhojii Hané (Navajo Blessingway stories). She has shared these stories by oral tradition in Navajo and in English for a variety of organizations, universities, elementary schools, and conferences throughout the U.S., Canada, Africa, Europe and Mexico including the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, the Denver Arts Museum, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISDI), and programs sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust. In 2025, she executive produced the documentary film, “Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History.”
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