This book is a source of vocabulary and grammatical information that is indispensable for teachers and students of the Navajo language. Beginning with an explanation of the Navajo sound system, the publication is followed by a 125 page long outline of Navajo grammar. The work presented is also composed of a two part dictionary: 247 pages Navajo – English and 101 pages English – Navajo. Young and Morgan have used painstaking care in gathering, arranging and describing the numberless complex details of Navajo language. Originally published in 1943, it was supplemented with ‘The Vocabulary of Colloquial Navajo’ in 1950, using a wealth of sentence examples for each verb entry. Both publications are now once more made available by Native Child Dinétah.

The Navajo Language: The Elements Of Navajo Grammar With A Dictionary In Two Parts Containing Basic Vocabularies Of Navajo And English

Reference

Young, Robert W.

Morgan, William

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Native Child Dinétah

Spider Woman: A Story Of Navajo Weavers And Chanters

Almost 90 years have passed since Gladys Reichard moved into a dug out which was built like a hogan, but without a smokehole. It was located 6 miles south of the Hubbel Trading Post in the Ganado area. A well–known Navajo singer's place, Red Point, is where Reichard spent eight summers and parts of two winters. On the Navaho reservation she learned the language and participated in daily and ceremonial life. She witnessed performances of many chants including the 'Male Shooting Chant Holy' given by Red Point. Two of these were sung over her. Reichard was considered a relative of her host family and became part of their kinship and clan relationship system, expressed in the Navajo way as a concept: k’é. Having placed herself in such a unique position and being taught to weave by 'relatives', enabled her to record in an openly biographical manner. She recorded her progress as well as trials and frustrations in becoming proficient in the art of traditional Navajo weaving. We witness and learn about daily life and ceremonial occurrences in Navajoland: the desert climate and its effect on people and animals, the growing importance of the role of trading posts for Navajo economy, the influence the railway had on the People, the early beginnings of a tribal government, a wedding ceremony, the conflicts that a new health care system brings and how it is clashing with traditional healing ceremonies. We also learn about the food being consumed, at a time when self sufficiency was still the order of the day, and the white man’s food was mostly a welcome change in the daily diet rather than a diabetes creating curse, brought upon by drastic lifestyle changes. Reichard’s book is a historical time capsule, an eyewitness report of the fast changing culture and society of the Diné in the thirties of the 20th century.

Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters

Biographies & Memoirs

Reichard, Gladys A.

Community & Culture

Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway

Haile, Berard

This illustrated book includes 20 authentic traditional Navajo corn recipes. It is a unique and never before published resource about traditional corn food. Historic cooking utensils are introduced and basic traditional cooking methods are clearly explained step by step. You will be able to prepare the recipes yourself at home.

Navajo Corn Recipes: Diné Binaadą́ą́' Ch'iyáán

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Michaelis, Bernhard

Regional & International

Navajo Singers (medicine men) have always helped their Native veterans heal from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder through a War Dance, also known as the "Enemy Way". As Father Berard Haile writes in this publication: "To be sure the young warrior has slain the enemy and taken the life out of his body. But dreams about his encounters, dreams of actual combat or of actual contacts with, and sights of injured foreigners and the like, may haunt the returned boy or girl in his native habitat. There is loss of sleep and pep, a general listlessness and weakness which nothing at home can account for. Isn't it perhaps that those foreign journeys and contacts cause this condition? That the ghosts of those enemies are still active and are haunting him?" In his publication he gives a short description of the songs, prayers, drumming, and herbs used to cleanse the body from the effects of war. For a more indepth understanding of the Enemy Way, Native Child Dinétah has published Father Berard's work: Origin Legend of the Navaho Enemy Way, which includes the Navajo text and translation.

The Navaho War Dance: A Brief Narrative of Its Meaning and Practice

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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