No Turning Back

A Hopi Indian Woman’s Struggle to Live in Two Worlds

This is the story of the Hopi woman who chose in her early youth to live in the white man’s world. She became known as Elizabeth Q. White. Born at Old Oraibi, Arizona, she was of the first Hopi children to be educated in white schools. Later she was the first Hopi to become a teacher in those schools. Here her biographer records Qoyowayma’s break with the traditions of her people and her struggle to gain acceptance for her radical teaching methods.

Throughout her life this remarkable woman has held to the best in Hopi culture and has fought to maintain it in the lives of her students. Her story, rich in information on Hopi legend and ceremony, is a moving introduction to the Hopi way of life.

Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood

This book focuses on the complex interweaving of the cosmological, social, and bodily realms that Navajo people navigate.

Storyteller

Leslie Marmon Silko’s groundbreaking book that blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up.

The Way to Rainy Mountain

There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself.” – N. Scott Momaday

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Me and Mine

An energetic Hopi woman emerges from a traditional family background to embrace the more conventional way of life in American today.

Ceremony

Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing.

A Navajo Legacy

Holiday describes how, at an early age, he began an apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessing Way ceremony.

Reclaiming Dine History

A thought-provoking examination of the construction of Dine history that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the past.

Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian

First published in 1942, Sun Chief is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society.