FARMINGTON N.M.
A dozen American Indian high school students sat in a room, concentrating hard on the beginning of a small loom in front of them.
Dozens of seemingly tangled strings loosely connected two wooden poles that would be the basis for a rug they will weave later. Native music played softly in the background as Lorraine Begay Manavi paced the room, helping students with their net of yarn.
Rug weaving was the first form of art introduced to the students as part of the second annual Native Youth Art Camp at San Juan College. Manavi, a Navajo language and rug weaving instructor at the college, shared techniques and rug designs with the students.
