VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 4
components are embedded in CAFC because of its location, and because of the
student athletes and staff who are Navajo. Camp has benefitted from an average of
19% Navajo staff members, and 66% Navajo student athletes, over the past four
years.
Another culturally sustaining practice is that all staff meetings, end-of-day get-
togethers, and the closing ceremony, are held in the Cameron Trading Post's
beautiful Rock Garden, and not in an enclosed meeting room. The Garden is set in
the heart of the Trading Post, with flagstone steps leading down to a circular
courtyard which includes a fireplace and picnic table. Well-cared for, manicured
plants and trees surround the courtyard and provide welcome shade. This natural
beauty and calmness set the tone for Camp meetings.
Figure 2
Rock Garden
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