Coyote Tales
William Morgan collected the stories in this volume as part of a literacy project for the Department of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs, in the 1940's.  Together with Robert W. Young, he prepared a Navajo text and translation.  In 1949, Hildegaard THompson, Director of Education for the Navajo Service, completed an English adaptation of the tales.Navajo artist Andrew Tsihnahjinnie (b. 1918)was one of the foremost painters emerging from the Studio of Indian Arts directed by Dorothy Dunn in the 1930's.  He was commissioned to paint murals and watercolors for the Works Progress Administration in 1933, and his subsequente career has included numerous mural and book illustration projects.  Dorothy Dunn said that he "in many respects--incisive interpretation, spontaneity of brushwork, originality of color, vigot of draftsmanship and vitality of action--has no equals among the srtists of the studio."