Navajos Wear Nikes : A Reservation Life

by Kristofic, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780826349460
• ISBN10: 0826349463
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of growing up on-and growing to love-the Reservation. The text reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue: The Question	p. xvii
The White Apple	p. 1
Dog Day	p. 22
Always Watch The Sun	p. 32
Temporary Capture	p. 40
You Will Get Your Scar	p. 49
Walking the Black Road	p. 53
Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Irreverent	p. 68
Worldly Possessions	p. 78
Shizhé' Ash'íní from Piñon, Arizona	p. 91
The Third Day	p. 100
Native American Week	p. 111
Naaki Góne' Shitsilí and the Leave-Taking	p. 120
Welcome to Bilagáana World	p. 127
Shadow Hunting	p. 139
The Last Halloween	p. 150
Into The Nest	p. 159
A Return	p. 173
Into the Wash	p. 176
Hózho	p. 180
Epilogue: The Answer to the Question	p. 191
Appendix	p. 195
Works Consulted	p. 206
Reading Group Questions	p. 209
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