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128 pp.
| Benchmark |
October, 2002 |
LibraryISBN 0-7614-1416-9$$32.79
(3)
4-6Lifeways series.
Overloaded with historical background about the Navajo and their beliefs and customs, this volume gets off to a slow start. Strangely, the information about the three-hundred-mile march endured by over eight thousand Native Americans and their incarceration at Fort Sumner, New Mexico--ostensibly the book's focus--is rushed and insubstantial. The blandly written text is illustrated with maps, photos, and reproductions. Bib., ind.