Commencement season
Diné College first of area graduations

Desirea L. LaMotte, left, of Navajo Station near Ganado, Ariz., raises her degrees in Associate of Arts in Fine Arts and Social Behavioral Science at the commencement ceremony at Dine College in Tsaile, Ariz., on Thursday, May 7, 2009. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / (Leigh T. Jimmie/For the Independent)