The Navajo / Peter Iverson ; with additional text written by Jennifer Denetdale ; foreword by Ada E. Deer.
Material type: TextSeries: Indians of North America (Chelsea House Publishers : Heritage ed.)Publication details: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.Description: ix, 139 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:- 0791085953 (hard cover)
- 9780791085950 (hard cover)
- E99.N3 I883 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-132) and index.
Into the fourth world -- The evolution of Navajo culture -- The long walk -- The weaving together of a people -- The time of livestock reduction -- The modern Navajo era begins -- The Navajo nation -- The Navajos in the twenty-first century.
In recent years, the Navajos have been increasingly honored for their role as "code talkers" during World War II, as evidenced by the 2002 movie Windtalkers. The Navajos largely reside on a 25,000-square-mile reservation in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.