Louva Dahozy

Louva McCabe Dahozy ( – January 20, 2026) was an American Navajo human rights activist. She was known as in recognition of her long-standing activism for the rights of Navajo people, as well as other Native American communities in United States.

Biography Dahozy was born near Flagstaff, Arizona, on the edge of the Navajo Nation during the 1920s. She was born of the Hashk’aa Hadzohi clan and for the Kinyaa’áanii clan. Dahozy grew up in a hogan, and graduated from Tuba City High School in Tuba City, Arizona in 1944.

After marrying Wilson Dahozy, she moved out of the Navajo Nation onto land in the Colorado River Indian Tribes Nation near Parker, Arizona. In 1958, she began working for the University of Arizona Cooperation Extension System as a community educator. Dahozy was a guest lecturer in Navajo culture and indigenous cuisine at various universities, including the University of Arizona, Dartmouth College, Duke University, the University of Kansas, the University of New Mexico, Prescott College, and Diné College. Speaker Crystalyne Curley called Dahozy "a champion of change".