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4) The Navajos
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 43
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate their own history, traditions, and sense of how to live well.
Author
Series
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed. Annotation. A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is July 7, 1985, and Indians from across the country are gathered at Big Mountain, Arizona, for the sun dance, a brutal and intensely spiritual ceremony of self-sacrifice. They are gathered to offer strength to the hundreds of Navajo Indians who have refused to be relocated from their homes in this rugged, isolated land in defiance of a government program to settle a land dispute with their neighbors the Hopi Indians. The Wind Won't Know Me takes...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to stay with the family of Red-Point, a well-known Navajo singer, it was unusual for an anthropologist to live with a family and become intimately connected with women's activities. First published...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Based on archival research, traditional accounts, interviews, historic and contemporary photographs, and firsthand observation, Iverson provides a detailed and up-to-date portrait of the Diné, past and present. An essential resource for anyone interested in Navajo Indians.
20) The Navajo
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief history of the Navajo Indians describing customs, interactions with white settlers, and changes in traditional ways of life brought on by modern civilization.