Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life

Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life

Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce. After the births of his Navajo half-siblings, Jim and his family moved off the Reservation to an Arizona border town where they struggled to readapt to an Anglo world that no longer felt like home.

With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout troop, a fanatical Sunday school teacher, and the authorâ€™s own experience of sincere friendships that lead to hoÌzhoÌ (beautiful harmony), Kristoficâ€™s memoir is an honest portrait of growing up onâ€”and growing to loveâ€”the Reservation.

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"Few regionally tied autobiographies have shown as much wit and keen observation as Navajos Wear Nikes by Jim Kristofic." -- Arizona Daily Sun

"Jim Kristofic combines the spirits of Joseph Campbell and J. D. Salinger to give readers an intimate look at the complexity of life in Navajo country." -- Martha Blue, author of Indian Trader: The Life and Times of J. L. Hubbell

"The story of how a minority overcame prejudice and made lifelong friends in the process will resonate with many teens." -- Booklist

"This is a story told on many levels. It can be brutally frank, irreverent in places, and funny in others. But it is so serious that it will hold the readerâ€™s attention from beginning to end. It brings to Native life a strongly personal and emotional aspect seldom seen, and it will persist in memory long after a first reading." -- David Brugge, author of The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: An American Tragedy
Country USA
Manufacturer University of New Mexico Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-05-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of New Mexico Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-05-02
Format	Kindle eBook

Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life

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