Clitso Dedman, Navajo CarverRebecca Valettes Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver is the first biography of artist Clitso Dedman (18761953), one of the most important but overlooked Din (Navajo) artists of his generation. Dedman was born to a traditional Navajo family in Chinle, Arizona, and herded sheep as a child. He was educated in the late 1880s and early 1890s at the Fort Defiance Indian School, then at the Teller Institute in Grand Junction, Colorado. After graduation Dedman moved