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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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"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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"The Navajo tribe, the Dine, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But over a century ago, they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk, a forced removal of most of the Dine people to a military-controlled reservation in New Mexico. The summer of 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the Navajos' return to their homelands. One Navajo family and their community decided to honor that return. Edison Eskeets...
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"In the 1920s and 1930s, Elizabeth Compton Hegemann traveled and worked as a Indian trader in remote areas of Arizona. She entertained numerous celebrities in spite of the necessity of bringing supplies from Flagstaff, a drive of several hours over mostly nonexistent dirt roads. She collected rare southwestern books, learned of the Navaho language, how to spin and weave, and the intricacies of trade in wool, blankets, and piñon nuts. Her record of...
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