37.2368, Books: Nine Navajo Narratives: Lukas Denk, Melvatha Chee (2026)

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Date: 14-Jul-2026
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Nine Navajo Narratives: Lukas Denk, Melvatha Chee (2026)


Title: Nine Navajo Narratives
Series Title: Open Text Collections
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/593

Author(s): Lukas Denk, Melvatha Chee

eBook

Abstract:

Éí bik'ehgo kééhwiit'į́. 'In accord with that, we live.' So speaks a
medicine man after recounting how the four sacred mountains were set
in place to anchor the world of the Diné. To live in accord with
something is to know where you stand, even when the ground shifts. And
the ground shifted constantly across the late 19th and early 20th
centuries: at Round Rock where armed men faced down U.S. cavalry; in
the canyons where boys fled from bears; in the corrals from which
sheep were driven away by government agents; in the frozen winter when
pilots dropped hay through fog to save starving communities. Nine
Navajo Narratives captures these moments through nine annotated texts:
three firsthand accounts of the 1892 "Trouble at Round Rock" over
forced boarding schools; a sacred creation story; a traditional tale
explaining a mother-in-law custom; a testimony of relief flights
during the blizzard of 1949; a vivid childhood narrative of adventure
and taboo; and two fierce political critiques of the devastating
livestock reduction policies of the 1930s. Drawn from the foundational
collections of Young and Morgan, all texts are presented in parallel
translation with full interlinear glossing and an introductory grammar
sketch—an essential resource for understanding Navajo history,
language, and survival.

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Subject Language(s): Navajo (nav, nava1243)

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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