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Navajo
Visions and Voices across the Mesa
By Begay, Shonto
- ISBN
- 978-0-59046-153-5
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Scholastic, Inc., c1995.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 1995
Gr 6-Up Navajo philosophy and an artist's personal experience infuse this collection of paintings and (mostly free) verse. Begay's subjects vary from the sublime (creation, prayer, death, healing) to the mundane (riding in a truck, splashing in the mud after rain). Coyote (Ma'ii) plays a recurrent and significant role here, but Begay's impulse is to note and celebrate, rather than explain, important aspects of his culture. Th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
