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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Nasdijj has written a love song to his brother, Tso--short for the Smarter One--and the powerful bond that sustained the two of them through the grim reality of their childhood. Filled with poetic intensity and unfiltered emotion, GERONIMO'S BONES is a visceral reading experience.
Author
Publisher
Salina Bookshelf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Annie Wauneka devoted her life to helping her people. Inspired by the example of her father, Henry Chee Dodge, Annie immersed herself in tribal politics and became a leader in the battle against tuberculosis. With amazing skill and foresight, Annie melded traditional Navajo culture with the modern world, and brought about unprecedented improvements in the healthcare and education available to her people. As a Tribal Council delegate and chairperson...
9) Code talker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Through Thomas H. Begay's singular story, this richly illustrated biography for young readers describes aspects of Navajo history and culture and shows how a select group of Navajo soldiers used their native Dinae language to invent and operate a secretcommunications system that was crucial to a US victory in the Pacific during World War II"--
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Charges that the U.S. government recruited the Navajo people to work in uranium mines in the Four Corners region of the country from the 1930s to the 1960s, knowing the dangers the workers faced, and discusses how the uranium contamination affected the land, water, animals, and people of the tribe, including cancer and birth defects.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homelessness, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation....
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"--
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Navajo tribe, the Diné, 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 Diné people to a military-controlled reservation in New Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Sandra Jonas Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies--even murder." -- Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexist in a tenuous truce. With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout troop, a fanatical Sunday school teacher, and the author's own experience of sincere friendships that lead to hozho (beautiful harmony), Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of an Anglo boy growing up on and growing to love the Reservation. --publisher's...