Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
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.
1102198119
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 hózhó? (beautiful harmony), Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of growing up onand growing to lovethe Reservation.
Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
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 hózhó? (beautiful harmony), Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of growing up onand growing to lovethe Reservation.
24.95
In Stock
5
1
Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
230Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
230Paperback(New Edition)
$24.95
24.95
In Stock
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780826349477 |
---|---|
Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
Publication date: | 10/15/2011 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 230 |
Sales rank: | 1,045,757 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
From the B&N Reads Blog