navajo indians

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navajo indians

Waterless mountain

Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.

Twilight boy

1998
Jesse Begay begins to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding a fire at his Navajo grandfather's hogan, even though the old man remains convinced that a "skinwalker" is haunting him.

Kit Carson & the Indians

2000
Studies Kit Carson's involvement with Native Americans in the nineteenth century.

Blood and thunder

an epic of the American West
2007
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 Chelly and the "Long Walk" migration.

The scalpel and the silver bear

2000
The author, the first Navajo woman surgeon, tells the story of how she was able to cut across cultural, class, and educational borders to become a part of the medical world; and discusses how she came to understand the power of Navajo thinking about health and illness to impact some of modern medicine's most daunting problems.

How we became human

new and selected poems
2002
A collection of poems written by Joy Harjo between 1975 and 2001.

The boy and the dog are sleeping

2004
The Native American author looks back upon his short time with Awee, the eleven-year-old boy with AIDS he took into his home on the Navajo reservation and cared for until his death.

Navajo summer

2000
The story of a young girl who runs away from home to live with a Navajo family.

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