A Navajo Legacy
Subtitle: The Life and Teachings of John Holiday
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780806136684
Subjects: Biography: general; Indigenous peoples; Personal Memoirs; Monument Valley (Ariz. and Uta; Biography/Autobiography; Religion; Biography; Native American; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Holiday, John,; USA; Ethnic Cultures - Native Americans; Native Americans; Alternative Medicine; Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah); Navajo Indians; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; People of Color; 1919-; Healers
First sentence: John actually tells two stories in the following pages.
Description: A Navajo medicine man tells his life story, including his apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessingway ceremony, his travels over the desert to find forage for the animals and plants for healing practices, his memories of the invasion of Monument Valley by whites, his experiences in the early filmmaking industry, his time in the Civilian Conservation Corps and the military, and his work mining one of the two largest uranium deposits on the Navajo Reservation. The book's second part details the family and tribal teachings Holiday has acquired over a long life.