Between Sacred Mountains: Navajo Stories and Lessons from the Land

Description

Author/Editor: None cited (Corporate)

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 1984 (Reprint edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  There is an approx. 4″ crease from the front cover bottom edge to approx. mid-cover.  Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend.  All corners have some wear.  Horizontal format.

Notes: Reprint edition.  Originally published by the Rock Point Community School (Chinle, AZ) in 1982.  Volume 11 of the University of Arizona Press Sun Tracks series.  “Between Sacred Mountains is a small encyclopedia of Navajo country.” (N. Scott Momaday, From his Foreword).  “Between Sacred Mountains was originally written for the young people of Rock Point Community School on the Navajo Reservation.  It was commissioned by the Navajo parents and grandparents on the Rock Point School Board because they wanted their children to be aware of their own unique history and to understand its relevance to the problems and challenges of today.”  (Page 9, About This Book).  Poems, oral history.  Topics include Land, Plant Watchers, Hunters, Anasazi, Ancestors, Spaniards, War and Reservation, Peace and Livestock, Stock and People, Navajos and Hopis, Modern Times, Remember the Land, and The Future.