Dinéjí Na`nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction—Entering the Táchééh 1 1 Wind, Hand, and Stars: Reading the Past, Finding the Future through Divination 13 2 The 1918–1919 Influenza Epidemic: A Cultural Response 44 3 Sacred Evil: The Dark Side of Life along the San Juan 72 4 “Too Much Noise in That Bunch across the River”: Ba’álílee and the 1907 Aneth Brawl 100 5 Traditional Teachings and Thought: Navajo Metaphors of the Elders 133 6 “He Stood for Us Strongly”: Father H. Baxter Liebler’s Mission to the Navajo 159 7 Seeing Is Believing: The Odyssey of the Pectol Shields 187 8 Of Stars, Goats, and Wind: Navajo Metaphors Then and Now 213 9 Gambling on the Future: Navajo Elders, Jiní, and Prophetic Warnings 237 Bibliography 265 Index 275 ...