About Us

 Diné Nízhoní Incorporated seeks to help with the preservation and revitalization of Diné culture and language, while helping our communities become more self-reliant and self-sustainable. Connecting today's generation with our history and heritage.

Dine Nizhoni Incorporated is a 501(c)3 public charity Non-profit corporation registered in the state of Utah that functions under the direction of a 100 percent Diné (Navajo) Board of Directors. 

DNI has existed within San Juan County, UT for the last 2 decades. DNI used to be an Non-Profit extension of Blue Mountain Dine Community, a Off-reservation community group that helps Navajo residents with housing, education support and community organization. When the UNRHF started to help BMDC by funding them, we had decided to split to help reach more people, we wanted to help both on and off reservation Navajo residents of San Juan County, UT. In 2012, we decided to change our name to 'Shash Jaa' Educational Services', and provided long distance learning assistance and school scholarships. And when Bears Ears National Monument started to become a local topic of debate and gaining national coverage, we thought it best to once again change our name and we finally found our new vision and mission to help our people become more self sustainability and we decided on 'Dine Nizhoni Incoprorated' Dine is the Navajo word for our people or 'The People' and Nizhoni is Navajo for beauty, good and healthy. And thats what we want to achieve to help our people become symbols of change and unity within their communities.