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43) The Navajo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Navajo way of life, including their traditions, legends, families, and homes.
Series
Native American resources volume no. 4
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
47) Navajo
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Navajo Nation is officially the largest North American Indian tribe. Readers will learn about the Dine people, their history, and how they live today. From creating great art to serving and the first Code Talkers of World War II, the Navajo people have contributed greatly to the world.
Author
Publisher
Northland Pub
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
The struggle between the Navajo and Hopi tribes, with the federal government as referee, is more than a fight for land; it is, more critically, a fight for cultural survival. The dispute is ripping apart the lives - economic, spiritual, and physical - of the individuals who live on the land in question. It is a quarrel with no obvious or simple solution, an argument that deals both in abstract principles and real human suffering. What are the implications...
49) The Navajo
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Navajo.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A history of the largest group of Native Americans in the United States and a description of their homes, educational system, government, ceremonies, stories, location, and their role as codetalkers.
Author
Publisher
Salina Bookshelf, Inc., Multicultural Publishing
Pub. Date
[©2014].
Language
English
Description
The first novel, in a sweeping epic of one determined Navajo family's efforts to persevere during the Long Walk, blends history, romance, conflict, culture, and family in a finely crafted story that is a true work of passion. This story begins in Dziłíjiin (Black Mesa, Arizona) in 1865 at the start of the Navajo Long Walk. The woman at the heart of the story is Ninaanibaa̕ (The Women Warrior who came home once again). Her husband, Hashké Yił...
52) The Navajo
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Clubhouse
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
"Amidst a complicated history of mistreatment by and distrust of the American government, the Navajo people--especially bilingual code talkers--helped the Allies win World War II"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Publications in archeology volume 18 C
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
