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This liberally illustrated exploration of 'the Navajo worldview' presents a lively back and forth conversation fielding a wide breadth of topics, including the remarkably complex architecture of the Navajo language, the coalescing history of its people bolstered by the evidence of genetics, the unique healing system that focuses on a reordering of an individual in need, the Navajo rock wall imagery within an earlier ancestral area known as the Dinétah,...
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It's been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she's lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she's somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange clan power. Then the Goodacre twins show up at Maggie's door with the news that Kai and the youngest Goodacre, Caleb, have fallen in with a mysterious cult,...
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"Around the world, indigenous peoples are returning to traditional foods and cooking methods to reestablish healthy lifeways to combat contemporary diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way is the first book to focus on the dietary practices of the Navajos from the earliest known times into the present and relate them to the Navajo Nation's participation in the Food Sovereignty movement. Charlotte J. Frisbie documents...
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A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the spiritual world of the Navajo.
• Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of harmony and balance in the world.
• Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for generations.
• Includes meditations following each story or poem.
Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo,...
• Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of harmony and balance in the world.
• Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for generations.
• Includes meditations following each story or poem.
Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo,...
10) The Navajo
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""Engaging images accompany information about the Navajo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
13) The Navaho
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A classic anthropological study of the Navajo by the famous Kluckhohn and Leighton.
14) Flood song
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"Sherwin Bitsui's new poetry collection, Flood Song—a sprawling, panoramic journey through landscape, time, and cultures—is well worth the ride."—Poets & Writers“Bitsui’s poetry is elegant, probative, and original. His vision connects worlds.”—New Mexico Magazine“His images can tilt on the side of surrealism, yet his work can be compellingly accessible.”—Arizona Daily Star“Sherwin Bitsui sees violent beauty in the American landscape....
17) The dark wind
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The vast Indian-owned lands of the Southwest held mysteries the white man's logic could not solve. A dead man's boots left on a dusty trail. A bloody corpse with the palms and soles sliced off. A low-flying plane circling in the night sky before crashing miles from any airstrip. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows instinctively what these things mean. He also knows how to investigate the white man's crimes better than the Federal agents...
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"Edward feels ready to move in with his dad’s girlfriend and her son, Nathan. He might miss having his dad all to himself, but even if things in their new home are a little awkward, living with Nathan isn’t so bad. And Nathan is glad to have found a new guardian for Dew, the young water monster who has been Nathan’s responsibility for two years.
Now that Nathan is starting to lose his childhood connection to the Holy Beings, Edward will be...
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