Translation project turns science terms into Navajo language



















  • Growing up in the Navajo tradition, there was a distance between science and the culture.
  • Project ENABLE was created to make scientific information accessible to Navajo communities.
  • The Project ENABLE team believes language is key to providing Indigenous communities with autonomy.

MILWAUKEE — To his peers in Shiprock, New Mexico, he was known as “the detective.”

As a kid, he was always asking questions, wondering how things worked and why.

“That’s probably where (my love of science) started. Just questioning everything,” said Sterling Martin, a recent biophysics graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.