Hosteen Klah (or Hastiin) was a Navajo medicine man and artisan, a master chanter and sand painter. Known as a Nádleeh which means “one-who-has-been-changed,” Hosteen is suspected to have been intersex. He dressed in traditionally male clothing and showed little interest in women, and never married.

He participated in sand painting and was the first to permanently create works in woven rugs, describing great chants which were stories passed on through Navajo generations. This work was reportedly done at great spiritual risk of upsetting the gods spoken about in the stories not meant to be permanently told via physical medium. Hosteen reportedly did so to prevent stories from being lost when apprentices became hard to come by to teach the stories out of fear of the stories being lost to time.

He co-founded the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which houses many of the works which describe these chants and stories in woven rugs by himself. It remains open to this day.