Navajo : visions and voices across the Mesa / Shonto Begay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Begay, Shonto.

Contributor:

Biola, Angela.

Westray, Kathleen.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo Indians--Poetry.

Navajo Indians.

Navaho Indians--Poetry.

Local Subjects:

Navaho Indians--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Scholastic Inc., [©1995]

Summary:

Collection of twenty poems accompanied by as many strongly executed, 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.

Contents:

Echoes

Creation

Mother's lace

Grandmother

Reflections after the rain

Darkness at noon: solar eclipse

In my mother's kitchen

Many faces, many stories

Second night

Night holds mysteries

Death hogan

Lifeline

Down Highway 163

Navajo Power Plant

Storm pattern

Coyote crossing

Our mysteries, His knowledge

Anasazi diaspora

Into the new world

Early spring.

Notes:

"Production supervision by Angela Biola."

Design by Kathleen Westray"--t.p. verso.

"First printing, March 1995."

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Includes index.

American Library Association Notable Children's Book 1996

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0590461532

9780590461535

OCLC:

28853702