navajo indians

A retelling of the Indian legend which explains why the Navajo always plant a scattering of zinnia flowers among their food crops and respect every spider.

Two Navajo brothers use their native language that they've been forbidden to speak to help in winning World War II.

A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

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.

The author recounts the experiences he shared with his beloved brother, a migrant-camp childhood of spotty educational opportunities and survival endured at the hands of an abusive father after the death of their Navajo mother.

As a young Navajo boy brings his family's sheep home one evening, he discovers one is missing and sets out to rescue it before nightfall.

Describes a nine-year-old Navajo boy's life on a present-day reservation.