The above text is “written” in the Navajo Language. Because of the limitations of the web’s text characters, some words will not appear as it is written in text. The Navajo are a group of people located in the Southwestern United States. The previous sentence roughly translates to:

Hello, My name is Loren John. Water’s Edge People born for the Meadow people is my clan.

This is the greeting that many of the Navajo People use to greet each other. If you cannot tell by now, I am Navajo. I am currently residing in Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. That´s about 5 hours away form the Navajo Nation. I work full-time at the Alamogordo Daily News, and I am going part-time at New Mexico State University to continue my education for graphic design.

I was born in Gallup, New Mexico in the year 1982. I grew up in a Navajo/English speaking home with my grandparents for more than 22 years. I completed High School in Tohatchi in the year 2000 with a rank of 8th in a class of 104 seniors.

I went to school at the University of New Mexico-Gallup Branch looking for something that would keep my interest going. I found that Graphic Design was something I wanted to pursue after looking at some of the work on the walls on the top south floor of Calvin Hall. I saw some art work hanging and thought, “Now that’s something I want to learn.”

At the moment, I am considering going to DigiPen in Washington to continue my education in Digital Mediums. Hopefully I would have earned enough wisdom to further my career and eduction.

On my spare-time, I like to do many things. Drawing, reading, learning new things, tinkering around with stuff, are among my interests. I like to play around with HTML.