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Book Kinaald

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shirley M. Begay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Kinaald written by Shirley M. Begay and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the puberty ceremony for Navajo girls, primarily for use by Navajo high school and junior college students.

Book Kinaald

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : First Avenue Editions
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 0822596415
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Kinaald written by and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celinda McKelvey, a Navajo girl, participates in the Kinaalda, the traditional coming-of-age ceremony of her people.

Book Kinaald    a Navajo Puberty Ceremony

Download or read book Kinaald a Navajo Puberty Ceremony written by Shirley M. Begay and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the puberty ceremony for Navajo girls, primarily for use by Navajo high school and junior college students.

Book Kinaald

Download or read book Kinaald written by Tomoko Hirai and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kinaald

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte Johnson Frisbie
  • Publisher : Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Kinaald written by Charlotte Johnson Frisbie and published by Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kinaald

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte Johnson Frisbie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Kinaald written by Charlotte Johnson Frisbie and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kinaalda

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780822542711
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Kinaalda written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique theme unit. Native American authors examine their cultural traditions. Each book describes Native American lives, as seen through the eyes of the participants, and discusses how Native American people maintain their cultural identities in contemporary society. With descriptions of culturally relevant events, excellent full-color photographs, maps, and further reading lists, this theme unit is essential for Native American studies.

Book Empowerment of North American Indian Girls

Download or read book Empowerment of North American Indian Girls written by Carol A. Markstrom and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Many North American Indian cultures regard the transition from childhood to adulthood as a pivotal and potentially vulnerable phase of life and have accordingly devised coming-of-age rituals to affirm traditional values and community support for its members. Such rituals are a positive and enabling social force in many modern Native communities whose younger generations are wrestling with substance abuse, mental health problems, suicide, and school dropout. Developmental psychologist Carol A. Markstrom reviews indigenous, historical, and anthropological literatures and conveys the results of her fieldwork to provide descriptive accounts of North American Indian coming-of-age rituals. She gives special attention to the female puberty rituals in four communities: Apache, Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa. Of particular interest is the distinctive Apache Sunrise Dance, which is described and analyzed in detail. Also included are American Indian feminist interpretations of menstruation and menstrual taboos, the feminine in cosmology, and the significance of puberty customs and rites for the development of young women.

Book Crossing Between Worlds

Download or read book Crossing Between Worlds written by Jeanne M. Simonelli and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navajo people of Canyon de Chelly must negotiate a delicate balance between the old and the new as they struggle to maintain their traditional ways of life in the midst of archaeologists, U.S. Park Service employees, and the increasing numbers of tourists who come to visit this hauntingly beautiful part of northeastern Arizona. Anthropologist-writer Jeanne Simonelli, who worked at Canyon de Chelly as a seasonal park ranger, interweaves stories of her personal experiences and friendships with canyon residents with discussions of native history and culture in the region. Focusing on the members of one extended Navajo family, Simonelli describes the small moments of their daily lives: shearing goats, baking bread, attending a solemn all-night health ceremony, washing clothes at the local laundromat, playing traditional games and contemporary sports, talking about the history of the Dinthe Navajo peopleand pondering the changes they have witnessed in the canyon and the difficulties they confront. Crossing Between Worlds is sumptuously illustrated with insightful black-and-white photographs that document the everyday activities of Navajo families in one of the most spectacular corners of the American Southwest.

Book Indian Running

Download or read book Indian Running written by Peter Nabokov and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indian Running is an eyewitness account of the 6-day, Taos, N.M., to Second Mesa, Hopi, Ariz., 1980 Tricentennial Run commemorating the Pueblo Indian Revolt. The book describes many Indian running traditions and includes historical photos and 1980 photos by Karl Kernberger. Anthropologist Nabokov's books include "Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior and "Native American Testimony.

Book We ll be in Your Mountains  We ll be in Your Songs

Download or read book We ll be in Your Mountains We ll be in Your Songs written by Ellen McCullough-Brabson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable collaboration between a university music professor and her one-time student, a traditional Navajo who teaches on the reservation.

Book Kinaalda Navajo Rite of Passage  Videodisc

Download or read book Kinaalda Navajo Rite of Passage Videodisc written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Molded in the Image of Changing Woman

Download or read book Molded in the Image of Changing Woman written by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might result from hearing a particular song, wearing used clothing, or witnessing an accident? Ethnographic accounts of the Navajo refer repeatedly to the influences of events on health and well-being, yet until now no attempt has been made to clarify the Navajo system of rules governing association and effect. This book focuses on the complex interweaving of the cosmological, social, and bodily realms that Navajo people navigate in an effort alternately to control, contain, or harness the power manifested in various effects. Following the Navajo life-course from conception to puberty, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz explores the complex rules defining who or what can affect what or whom in specific circumstances as a means of determining what these effects tell us about the cultural construction of the human body and personhood for the Navajo. Schwarz shows how oral history informs Navajo conceptions of the body and personhood, showing how these conceptions are central to an ongoing Navajo identity. She treats the vivid narratives of emergence life-origins as compressed metaphorical accounts, rather than as myth, and is thus able to derive from what individual Navajos say about the past their understandings of personhood in a worldview that is actually a viable philosophical system. Working with Navajo religious practitioners, elders, and professional scholars. Schwarz has gained from her informants an unusually firm grasp of the Navajo highlighted by the foregrounding of Navajo voices through excerpts of interviews. These passages enliven the book and present Schwarz and her Navajo consultants as real, multifaceted human beings within the ethnographic context.

Book Community Programs to Promote Youth Development

Download or read book Community Programs to Promote Youth Development written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-02-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for today's adolescents? How can we ensure that programs are designed to successfully meet young people's developmental needs and help them become healthy, happy, and productive adults? Community Programs to Promote Youth Development explores these questions, focusing on essential elements of adolescent well-being and healthy development. It offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs. The book also discusses the features of programs that can contribute to a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. It examines what we know about the current landscape of youth development programs for America's youth, as well as how these programs are meeting their diverse needs. Recognizing the importance of adolescence as a period of transition to adulthood, Community Programs to Promote Youth Development offers authoritative guidance to policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and other key stakeholders on the role of youth development programs to promote the healthy development and well-being of the nation's youth.

Book Ancestral Lines

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Barker
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781442601055
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Ancestral Lines written by John Barker and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancestral Lines, which is based on 25 years of research among the Maisin people, Barker offers a nuanced understanding of how the Maisin came to reject commercial logging on their traditional lands.

Book Shaylae of the Gentle Heart

Download or read book Shaylae of the Gentle Heart written by J. Antony Miller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-thousand-year old war between two distant planets has found a new battle ground: Earth. Shaylae Lucero, a beautiful fourteen-year-old Navajo girl, who has been isolated from her culture, finds herself thrust into the middle of this war. The Dark Ones, ancient enemies of the Navajo, have found her and have mistaken her for their mortal enemy, Changing Woman, the Sacred Mother of the Navajo. During Shaylaes Kinaalda, the puberty ceremony for Navajo girls, Changing Woman visits her and charges her with resolving this conflict. Initially reluctant to accept this mission, she soon realizes that she has no choicethe Dark Ones have kidnapped her parents, top researchers in the area of hyperspace. Before destroying Earth, the Dark Ones first want access to this new technology. With the help of her two friends, Ayanna and Micah, she learns of the richness of her heritage and discovers she has access to the ancient powers of the Navajo. Using these new-found powers, twice she is able to thwart the Dark Ones efforts to capture her, but is she ready for the final, cataclysmic conflict aboard their interstellar ship?

Book Abducted Innocence

Download or read book Abducted Innocence written by Sandra Bolton and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping police procedural, Officer Emily Etcitty sets a trap for a kidnapper preying on Navajo teens. When a Native American girl turns up missing during a traditional ceremony, Navajo police officer Emily Etcitty is on the case. What initially looks like nothing more than a routine runaway turns into a high-priority kidnapping case when a connection is made to several other missing girls under similar suspicious circumstances. After abandoning everything on the East Coast but his loyal dog, Patch, musician Abe Freeman is still acclimating to the Southwest and his new love interest, the beautiful and beguiling Emily. It hasn't been easy with clashing cultures and haunted pasts, but they're committed to making it work. Fearing for the missing girls' safety, Emily decides to use herself as bait to set a trap for the kidnapper--and is abducted alongside another girl. Now Abe must team up with Emily's brother and her police partner to find and save the missing girls, but the deeper they dig into the investigation, the more dangerous things become. And with the weight of a greater, far more sinister plot at play, can Emily escape the kidnapper and take him down before more girls fall victim?