The Navajo in their different genius : living a long life in beauty is its own reward
(Book)

Includes bibliography.

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, the focus on mountains within their worldview, the Western misrepresentation of the concept and role of the Navajo female, the use of language to create a reality, and the overarching identification with an earthly life of ‘beauty’. In a final chapter, Harry Walters animates these discussions with spirited specific memories of his own long life and that of prior generations of his family, stretching back to the 1864-1868 internment that included both his grandfather, who as a boy survived captivity, and his great-grandfather who did not.