Navajo
Subtitle: visions and voices across the Mesa
By: Shonto Begay
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780590461542
Subjects: Navajo Indians; Poetry
Description: Collection of twenty poems accompanied by full color paintings of mountains, plateaus, deserts, and wildlife from the American Southwest and of the Native people who live there. Book begins with spiritual elements, moves on to told stories, Begay's memories, members of the community, and rituals, and ends with hope for an early spring. Throughout there is a sense of striving to balance the old ways and beliefs with the intrusive outer world and to protect the Earth, which is regarded as sacred.
Notes: "This Scholastic edition is only available for distribution through the school market."

Includes index of paintings.