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Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway
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Berard Haile |
Franciscan Father Berard Haile started out as a missionary among the Navajo in the early 1900s but during his decades of service became known for his extensive documentation of the Navajo language an… |
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The Navajo
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King, David C. |
"General overview for young readers of the Navajo people. Covers history, daily life, and beliefs. Contains recipe and craft"--Provided by publisher. |
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Weaving the Dance
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Jean-Paul Valette |
"Weaving the Dance is the first book to focus on the early development of a special category of twentieth-century Navajo textiles known as Yeibichai weavings. These weavings are artistic interpretati… |
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Indian summer
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Sandra Byrd |
During vacation Bible school, Secret Sisters Tess and Erin go to work at a Navajo Indian reservation where Tess plans to participate in a river baptism even though she thinks that her non-Christian p… |
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Blood and Thunder
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Hampton Sides |
Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chel… |
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Tinker and the medicine men
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Bernard Wolf |
Follows the activities of Tony's Navajo family the week he finishes first grade in town, moves for the summer to his ancestral home in Monument Valley, and begins studying to be a medicine man. |
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Turkey's gift to the people
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Ani Rucki |
When a great wall of water threatens to destroy them, the animals band together to save themselves, but it is the turkey who remembers to save the seeds they will need to rebuild their lives. |
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Yellowcake
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Ann Cummins |
The urainium mining and milling in New Mexico, first started in Durango Co. |
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Turquoise boy
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Terri Cohlene |
A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier. Includes a brief history of the Navajo people and their customs. |
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Savage dawn
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Cassie Edwards |
When the first signs of smallpox appeared on his body, Eagle Wolf set out into the mountains so the dreaded disease would not spread to his clan. He was completely alone until he spotted a fiery redh… |
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The Navajo
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Kevin Cunningham |
An exploration of the Navajo Indians, discussing the nation's relationship with Spaniards and settlers, culture, crafts, and more. |
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The Navajo skinwalker, witchcraft, & related spiritual phenomena
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Joanne Teller |
I wrote the book of Jo's battles against Navajo skinwalkers & witchcraft. I am Norman Blackwater returned 12 years after Jo's death due to breast cancer. I quit selling the book after Jo's death but … |
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Coyote walks on two legs
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Gerald Hausman |
A collection of Navajo legends featuring the trickster character, Coyote. |
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Navajo summer
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Jennifer Dewey |
Upset at her parents' impending divorce, twelve-year-old Jamie runs away from home to live with a Navajo family that she befriended on earlier trips to the desert country with her father. |
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Photographing Navajos
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Dale Sperry Mudge,Herbert John Benally,C. Stewart Doty |
"In the late 1940s and early 1950s the great anthropological photographer John Collier Jr. made nearly one thousand photographs documenting Navajo life in Fruitland, New Mexico, near the Four Corners… |
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Two spirits
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Toby Johnson,Walter L. Williams |
Twenty years after publishing his groundbreaking The Spirit and the Flesh, anthropologist Walter L. Williams breaks his silence and publishes another book on Native Americans by teaming up with award… |
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Baby learns about time
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Jessie Ruffenach |
Baby celebrates her birthday and learns about time. |
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Sitting on the blue-eyed bear
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Gerald Hausman |
Navajo stories and poems with explanatory material. |
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Jesse Monongya
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Lois Sherr Dubin |
"Lois Sherr Dubin reveals one of the finest Native American jewelers alive today. Jesse Monongya, of Navajo and Hopi heritage, is a world-renowned master of painterly inlay, whose work rivals that of… |
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Ghost medicine
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Aimée Thurlo |
"Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute's body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's job … |
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