navajo indians

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 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.

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

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.

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

Fifteen-year-old Anita Whiterock, a Navajo teenager living on a New Mexico reservation, struggles with conflicting forces as she tries to reconcile traditional Navajo ways with her desires for progress.

Chronicles the life of controversial Native American leader Peter MacDonald.

Hobart Slim lives an uneventful life helping his mother and uncle run a shabby hotel, and the biggest thing in his life is coping with the school bully. Then Lettie Mendoza comes to town and teaches him to stand up for himself.

A sensitive portrait of a traditional Navajo family and their season cycles of life that is in partnership with their surroundings.