Heather Sundahl

Students are given the red-carpet treatment as they arrive for the first day of school at Altara Elementary in Sandy on Monday, Aug. 16, 2021.

Opinion

Lawmakers should fully fund arts in all schools

Currently, less than half of Utah’s K-6 kids have the arts as part of their education.

Members of the Navajo Nation gather in the Utah Senate chamber as Code Talkers from World War II were recognized.

Opinion

Native Americans who served their country deserve to be honored, remembered

One of the great ironies of American history is that Native peoples have fought in every single war the U.S. has engaged in, and yet Native Americans weren’t granted citizenship until 1924.

By Brenda Beyal and Heather Sundahl

Navajo Code Talker Thomas Begay and retired U.S. Army Col. Ronald Begay tour the White House.

Opinion

Opinion: Navajo code helped in WWI, also

The federal government enlisted Navajos to communicate in code the nation’s enemies could not decipher.

By Brenda Beyal and Heather Sundahl

Pioneer Day is a chance to honor Native America tribes as well as the pioneers who came west.

Opinion

Opinion: Pioneer Day is a chance to look at Utah’s many layered history

Native Americans in Utah illustrate the diversity and unique cultures that still exist today.

By Heather Sundahl

Opinion

Meet 3 little-known Utah women who’ve changed our state for good

These women used their power to make changes on behalf of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation

By Brenda Beyal and Heather Sundahl

Opinion

This Thanksgiving, remember the Indigenous people who gave for others

By Brenda Beyal and Heather Sundahl

Opinion

How ‘God Bless America’ became a prayer for what our nation can be

By Heather Sundahl