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Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In Navajo, numerous prefixes combine with verb roots to form single words that, in English translation, require a phrase or even a sentence to convey their meaning. Therefore, verb stems and prefixes must be mastered piece by piece to understand the language. This volume leads the reader carefully and systematically through the complexities of the Navajo verb system. By doing so, the book makes Navajo more accessible to all those interested in the...
Author
Publisher
Native Child Dinétah
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This book is a source of vocabulary and grammatical information that is indespensable for teachers and students of the Navajo language. Beginning with an explanation of the Navajo sound system, the publication is followed by a 125 page long outline of Navajo grammar. The work presented is also composed of a two part dictionary: 247 pages Navajo - English and 101 pages English - Navajo. Young and Morgan have used painstaking care in gathering, arranging...
Author
Publisher
Audio Forum
Pub. Date
c1978.
Language
English
Description
Presents Navajo language instruction; covers vocabulary and structures, including present, past, and future verb tenses, related to areas of Navajo life and culture such as weaving, animal husbandry, tribal government, and planting.
Author
Publisher
Salina Bookshelf
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Dzanibaa' is alone when U.S. troops swoop down on her family's hogan. Before she can run to safety, a soldier grabs her and puts her on his horse. She is taken to Fort Canby, and from there is forced to walk to Bosque Redondo. For four long years, Dzanibaa' and her family endure incredible hardship and sacrifice. Crops wither. Food is scarce or so tainted that it poisons. Illness strikes. At times there seems no hope of a better future. Nevertheless,...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Salina Bookshelf
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
When a boy moves from his pony, Little Black, to a larger horse, Big Red, the pony misses his master and is upset that he can no longer serve him, until the boy gets into danger that only Little Black can get him out of. Re-illustrated with Navajo characters.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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