These themes are as old as the Navajo themselves and give us a look into the Navajo mythological explinations of life. This program begins in the middle grades and peaks in the 8th grade with the work of the children being readied for a World Wide Web. These images and text are a collection of traditional stories although some are tinted by Catholic themes. It is a very interesting study of the modern American Indian child discovering their self-identity and displaying the process with the use of computers. These images show mythological themes in a modern setting and in some ways help to form the mythology of the future.
Mythology exists in all that Indian children create.
It is the basis for the art and stories that are being perpetuted with and without the computer. Sometimes modern themes are combined with traditional ones and this combination serves as a wonderful example of the nature of storytelling. It is a combination of tradition and imagination, of what was and what is to be. For the past two centuries the stories of the Indian people have been restricted for various reasons. The computer is one of the first tools that will allow these restrictions to be lifted so that our children can express themselves without compromise.