{"product_id":"navajo-lifeways-maureen-trudelle-schwarz-9780806143699","title":"Navajo Lifeways: Contemporary Issues, Ancient Knowledge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I think what is always really amazing to me is that Navajo are never amazed by anything that happens. Because it is like in a lot of our stories they are already there.\"--Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the final decade of the twentieth century, Navajo people had to confront a number of challenges, from unexplained illness, the effects of uranium mining, and problem drinking to threats to their land rights and spirituality. Yet no matter how alarming these issues, Navajo people made sense of them by drawing guidance from what they regarded as their charter for life, their origin stories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough extensive interviews, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz allows Navajo to speak for themselves on the ways they find to respond to crises and chronic issues. In capturing what Navajo say and think about themselves, Schwarz presents this southwestern people's perceptions, values, and sense of place in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maureen Trudelle Schwarz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080614369X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806143699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Maureen Trudelle Schwarz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980559909119,"sku":"9780806143699","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b96e4aa5-9c8b-47e2-98a7-c575e146499b.jpg?v=1683250597","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/navajo-lifeways-maureen-trudelle-schwarz-9780806143699","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}