Reaching out: Hands reach for the ball during a high school game at the Veteran's Memorial Fieldhouse in Fort Defiance, Ariz. between Window Rock and Show Low. [Photo by Brian Leddy/Independent]

A car drives slowly over the driveway of the Chamisal Trailer Park in Gallup, having only a small amount of clearance between the frame and cement. George Munoz said that he simply wanted the city to fix the problem of what he says are too high curbs and poor drainage in the area, but instead the city has offered him an unspecified settlement. [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent] Full Story

Japanese born photographer Kenji Kawano, 58, first moved to the reservation in 1974 with the purpose of photographing the Navajo. Currently he lives in Window Rock where he continues his work as the official photographer of the Code Talkers as well as other documentary projects. [Photo by Brian Leddy/Independent] Full Story