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Explores how American Indian businesses and organizations are taking on images that were designed to oppress them.

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 During 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 matte...

Blood and Voice: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners is an accesible look at Navajo medicine women that draws on interviews with 17 Navajo medicine women to explore women's roles as cermonial practitioners.

Blood and Voice: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners is an accesible look at Navajo medicine women that draws on interviews with 17 Navajo medicine women to explore women's roles as cermonial practitioners.

What might result from hearing a particular song, wearing used clothing, or witnessing an accident? Ethnographic accounts of the Navajo refer repeatedly to the influences of events on health and well-being, yet until now no attempt has been made to clarify the Navajo system of rules governing association and effect.This book focuses on the complex interweaving of the cosmological, social, and bodily realms that Navajo people navigate in an eff...

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