TUBA CITY, Ariz.—When Carol Parrish built her first fire using her new wood-burning stove, tears streamed down her face. “My prayers have been answered,” she remembers thinking. For years, Parrish’s ...

Corn goes back to their very creation story. As the Hopi people emerged into this world, the Creator gave them three things: a gourd of water, a planting stick and a short ear of blue corn. “And he ...