Navajo bird tales told by Hosteen Clah Chee

Klah, Hasteen. (Author). Newcomb, Franc Johnson. (Added Author). Walters, Harry, (illustrator.).

Summary: Sixteen Navajo bird tales told by an old medicine man to a shepherd boy and his friends.

Record details

ISBN: 0835600173
ISBN: 9780835600170
Physical Description: print
xiii, 125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Wheaton, Ill. : Theosophical Pub. House, �1970.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"The author collected the stories in the book from many sources. Some from Hosteen Klah, some from Grayhair, and others from Shema Tsonie. There were Dudley, Tom Shorty, Martin, Clyde, Dorcus, Esther, each with something to contribute in addition to numerous others whose names I have forgotten"--Page xiii.

Formatted Contents Note:

[1] Keeday, the Navajo shepherd boy -- [2] Keedah's homecoming -- [3] Evening in the hogan -- [4] In the beginning there were seven -- [5] Coats for everyone -- [6] First laws -- [7] The Sky People -- [8] Older brother -- [9] Feathers for Bat woman -- [10] The song birds -- [11] Why Blackbird has white eyes -- [12] Hummingbird earns many colors -- [13] Yellow feathers for Canary -- [14] Woodpecker, Flicker, and Robin -- [15] The mourning dove wears red shoes -- [16] Mockingbird sings many songs.