Hosteen Klah Navajo Medicine Man and Sand Painter

NewComb, Franc Johnson

Published by University of Oklahoma, 1964

About this Item

227 pages. Book has minor wear on the corners and edges and a personalized inscription ffep dated 6/1/70. Pages are ivory with bright text. Dust jacket is price clipped and has extensive wear on the edges including ope tears and pieces missing. Color for dust jacket is bright and all text intact. WHEN HOSTEEN KLan had lived a full seventy years, much of the old Navaho way of life was known to him and to few others. He had bridged the long span from the old days of tribal greatness and tribal warfare to the new davs of change and adjustment. Klah's biography and the story of his prominent family reflect nearly two hundred important years of Navaho history. Klah's great-grandfather, Narbona, was war chief of the Navahos during their heyday, when they were known as "Lords of the Soil." After Narbona's death and the defeat and subjugation of the Navahos; Klah's mother, Slim Woman, made "the Long Walk" to the Bosque Redondo (Fort Sumner) and grew to young womanhood in captivity there. Klah was born in 1867, a year before the treaty establishing the Navaho Reservation was signed. His family moved back to their ancestral land and slowly regained their former wealth. After years of intensive study and training, Klah became a medicine man. Seller Inventory # 024613

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hosteen Klah Navajo Medicine Man and Sand ...

Publisher: University of Oklahoma

Publication Date: 1964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition