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151 pages ; 18 cm.
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Danny Blackgoat, a sixteen-year-old Navajo, is labeled a troublemaker during the Long Walk of 1864 and sent to a prisoner outpost in Texas, where fellow captive Jim Davis saves him from a bully and starts him on the road to literacy -- and freedom.
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"Human modification of the environment always carries a risk of accident and folly. Explore the causes and consequences of the Church Rock, New Mexico uranium mine disaster of 1979. Guided by compelling questions such as, "What led to this disaster?," "Who was impacted by it?," and "What changed in its aftermath?" the interdisciplinary content blends social studies and science. Ultimately, it pushes students to consider how humans can meet their need...
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108 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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English
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"By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...
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xvii, 107 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Indian Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptogram. Recruited from the vast reaches of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, from solitary and traditional lives, the young Navajo men who made up the code talkers were present at some of the Pacific Theatre?s bloodiest battles. They spoke...
407) Code talker
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viii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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His name wasn't Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn't stop Chester from answering the call to defend his country after Pearl Harbor, for the Navajo have always been warriors, and his upbringing on a New Mexico reservation gave him the...
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xvi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors -- who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives -- chose a different way and persuaded the local parents and medicine men to allow them to educate their daughters as nurses. The young women struggled to step into the world of modern medicine,...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest...
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest...
411) The Navajo
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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""Engaging images accompany information about the Navajo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
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Sun tracks volume 81
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75 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"A new collection of poems from Navajo poet, activist, and educator Esther G. Belin"--Provided by publisher.
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343 (large print) pages ; 23 cm.
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
415) Four trails to valor
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386 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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xiii, 437 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"In Three Roads to Magdalena, his long-awaited second book, David Wallace Adams brings together borderlands history with the history of children to tell a story about the realities of life in a multi-cultural space. Focusing on the childhood experiences of three groups -- Anglo, Hispanic, and Navajo -- Adams examines how class, religion, language, race, and education influenced the creation of distinct identities and racial boundaries in tiny, remote...
418) Dark winds: Season 1
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2 videodiscs (261 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The year is 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee. Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other, and...
420) The Navajo
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63 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Describes the history, traditions, ceremonies, beliefs, and everyday life of the Navajo.
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