A Navajo Legacy: The Life and Teachings of John Holiday Volume 251

by Robert S. McPherson and John Holiday

Book Overview

For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. Author and scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively and in A Navajo Legacy records his full and fascinating life.

In the first part of this book, Holiday describes how, at an early age, he began an apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessingway ceremony. As a youth, Holiday...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080614176X
• ISBN13: 9780806141763
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"