Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life

Name: Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
Brand: UNM Press
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By Jim Kristofic

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Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce. After the births of his Navajo half-siblings, Jim and his family moved off the Reservation to an Arizona border town where they struggled to readapt to an Anglo world that no longer felt like home. With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout troop, a fanatical Sunday school teacher, and the author's own experience of sincere friendships that lead to ho?zho? (beautiful harmony), Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of growing up on--and growing to love--the Reservation.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 230
Release Date:: 2011-10-15
Publication Date:: 2011-10-15
Publisher:: UNM Press
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0826349471
ISBN13:: 9780826349477
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 349 g
Height:: 22.8 cm
Width:: 15.2 cm
Thickness:: 2 cm

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