A teary-eyed newly crowned Miss Navajo Tashina Nelson, 19, from Round Rock, Ariz., speaks to the crowd Saturday night at the Dean C. Jackson Memorial Arena in Window Rock.
After a brief tour of Fort Defiance and Window Rock, U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk, left, and U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar held a press conference with President Joe Shirley Jr.
David Weissman submitted this information. Cox Communications and the Arizona Interscholastic Association have selected six outstanding Arizona high-school students as finalists for the coveted Student of the Year to be awarded at the 2009 Everyday Heroes gala on Saturday.