navajo indians

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1897. Presents a collection of Navajo legends as a source of cultural, ritual, and ceremonial information.

Geraldine, a goat, describes each step as she and her Navajo friend make a rug, from the hair clipping and carding to the dyeing and actual weaving.

Covers the life and work of the contemporary Navajo artist, R. C. Gorman, from his childhood days on an Arizona reservation to his commercial success and the recognition of his artistic achievements.

High school junior Marcus feels his entire world changing around him as Henry, the Navaho foster brother who has lived with him since the age of seven, starts to change his personality and wonders if he should return to his family's reservation in another state.

Sergeant Jim Chee lures retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement when Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers the corpse of a white man who apparently had ties to the old Golden Calf Mine homicide--a case with loose ends that has been troubling Leaphorn for years.

In 1864, a Navajo shaman and his grandson seek powerful, mythical beads that can save their people from great evils, including The Long Walk forced on them by United States soldiers, and the trickster Coyote.

First-person accounts and Marine Corps documents help explain how code talkers created a unique code within a code which became one of the Marine Corps' most powerful tools during World War II.

A retelling of a traditional Navajo creation myth which explains how water came to earth.

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

Ashkii, who lives on an Indian reservation with his grandparents, finds that his way of painting is in conflict with what his grandfather calls the "Navajo Way.".