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KTNN is a Navajo language AM (medium-wave) radio station broadcasting on 660 AM from Window Rock, Arizona, the seat of the government of the Navajo Nation. It broadcasts Navajo tribal music and audio from Navajo ceremonial ("powwow") dances and Native American music, as well as country music and bluegrass in English. Most of its announcers are bilingual and broadcast in Navajo and English.
At the time the station came on the air in 1986, it claimed to be the last station allowed
. (Navajo). They had collaborated on "The Navajo Language", a major language dictionary published that same year, and continued to work on studying and documenting the language in major works for the next few decades. Today an AM radio station, KTNN, broadcasts in Navajo and English, with programming including music and NFL games; AM station KNDN broadcasts only in Navajo. When Super Bowl XXX was broadcast in Navajo in 1996, it was the first time a Super Bowl had been carried in a Native American language