Navajo (Diné) Cultural-Based Healing When Confronted with Grief Using the Familial/Kinship Relations: Concepts of Ké

Abstract

Healing with grief through Navajo (Diné) kinship relationships (Ké) is a subject on which I chose to write a culturally-based responsive school counseling guidance curriculum (grades kindergarten through 8). Due to the high death rates of suicide, and alcoholism, and especially with the occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Navajo reservation, I wanted to focus on this as the main topic. There was a high frequency of students that were needing grief support in a more culturally relevant way.