Jared King

My name is Jared King. I own Yeego Connect LLC, a 100 percent Native American-owned small business consulting firm specializing in travel and technical assistance. Yeego (pronounced YAY-Go) in Navajo means "Go for it!"

I am a proud Navajo Nation and United States citizen from Naschitti, New Mexico.

I have traveled extensively to Israel, Norway, Mexico, Canada, Chile, Australia, France, Italy, and other states within the continental United States.

I began my career in developing Native American Cultural Interpretation programs for museums and public parks. I founded and led the cultural interpretation program at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, in its inaugural years. I founded the American Indian Interpretive Area at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, a living history museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2014, I was a member of the Navajo Nation delegation that repatriated seven sacred Navajo masks from Paris, France. I led the government-to-government collaboration effort to raise international awareness of cultural heritage. In 2009, I was invited by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian to a cross-cultural exchange with the Republic of Croatia at the Red Rocks Arts and Crafts Festival in Zagreb. Along with Navajo traditional sand painter Nolan Chee and Phyllis Wilson, we represented sand painting's living art to faculty, students, and the public at the Croatian-American Society, performed with award-winning Anishinabe recording artist Keith Secola, and arranged and facilitated media interviews commemorating the exchange.  

In Navajo culture, we introduce ourselves to others by telling you about our maternal and paternal clans. My clans are Tl’ááshchí’í (Red Bottom People) and born for Táchii'nii (Red-Running-Into-The-Water). My maternal grandfathers are Tábaahá (Water's Edge), and my paternal grandfathers are Dziltl'ahnii (Mountain Cove). I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Colorado College.