The Coyote Bead

by Gerald Hausman

Overview

When the U.S. federal forces moved The People from their ancestral land, many Navajos lost their lives due to sickness, hardship and disease. This is the horrible page of history known as The Long Walk. The tribe -- men, women and children -- were forced to walk 350 miles from their homeland to Fort Sumner. In captivity they died in larger numbers. The food given to them was rotten and full of weevils. There were some who refused to go on The Long Walk. They hid in remote canyons and used powerful medicine to secret themselves and stay alive. This book is about those who stayed behind, who forged a new life and used the powers of the coyote beads to defeat their bluecoat enemies and the ones who were even more destructive to them -- the Utes.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148703242
Publisher:	Irie Books
Publication date:	09/14/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	143
File size:	991 KB

About the Author

Gerald Hausman has worked as an interpreter of Navajo mythology and as a storyteller for almost 40 years during which time he has written and helped to translate many books on Navajo myths, legends and personal stories of people Hausman knew well. He is also the author of books about Caribbean culture and middle European mythology, as well as animal myths.

Editorial Reviews

"With The Coyote Bead, Gerald Hausman displays the sensitivity and sympathetic understanding toward Native people that has long marked his work. Once again Hausman has delivered a powerful book for a new generation of readers who deserve to know the whole truth of the past...as timeless and provocative as the account of the Joads in The Grapes of Wrath.

Children's Book Review: Gladwyne Free Library - Alicemarie Colllins

A family tale of the Dineh, The Coyote Bead retells a heroic battle between the boy, Tobachischin and his lethal enemy Two-Face, the Ute bounty hunter...the factual, sparse graceful prose style underlines the terrifying and bloody conflict of evil and good...this is a tale of a heroic few who survived and used the sacred land and animal helpers to build a new identity despite their pain and suffering. The Coyote Bead is beautifully written for young adults."

The Midwest Book Review - The Reviewer

"The characters accept the power of magic as a part of everyday life, and so they easily take readers with them as the tale grows in complexity and depth. Youngsters willing to suspend disbelief and follow this journey will become caught up in a culture and a tale that whirls them through an unexpected landscape. A unique and intriguing historical novel."

School Library Journal - Darcy Shield

"I suggest using The Coyote Bead as a read aloud. Hausman gives us so many gifts ... what a great book to teach reading, writing, history, thinking and feeling ... simple, eloquent language evokes strong images of the American Southwest and the forces of good and evil."

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project: Columbia University - Annemarie Powers

"Hausman's lyrical writing ensures that adults ... will relish this book. Hausman's poetic descriptions--"embers raced over us like shooting stars. The whole night was on fire" mingle with the poetry of Navajo culture--as with Dawn Song: "Floating over the rivers of white corn, blue corn, yellow corn."

The Bloomsbury Review - Tiffany Hough