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We walk the Earth in beauty : traditional Navajo lifeways / by Kathy Eckles Hooker ; photography by Helen Lau Running ; with a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Lisa Puente Siyuja.
Penn Museum Library E99.N3 H75 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hooker, Kathy Eckles, author.
- Siyuja, Lisa Puente, author of preface, author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navajo Indians--Social life and customs.
- Navajo Indians.
- Navajo philosophy.
- Indigenous peoples--North America.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Navajo Indian Reservation--Social life and customs.
- Navajo Indian Reservation.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 103 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- monochrome
- illustration
- portrait
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Flagstaff, AZ : Soulstice Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Experience the time-honored practices of the Navajo as shared by wisdom-keepers who live close to the land and follow ancestral ways. Watch and listen as Mary Joe Yazzie fires a clay pot, Hazel Nez weaves a rug, and Sam Worker stitches a pair of moccasins for his wife. Each of the book's 19 chapters invites readers into a Navajo family to learn traditional methods for doing everything from making yucca shampoo to building a hogan."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Plants
- Water
- Wood
- Animals
- Soil.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9798991333603
- OCLC:
- 1456587101
- Publisher Number:
- 90101596157
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