Navajo References and Books

An ethnologic dictionary of the Navajo Indians. St. Michaels. Haile, Berard 1910.

A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education) by T. L. McCarty (

ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1834 to date, in Reports of the Secretary of the Interior.

Bailey, L. R. (1964). The Long Walk: A History of the Navaho Wars, 1846–1868.

Between Sacred Mountains: Navajo Stories & Lessons from the Land, 1982, University of Arizona Press, 250 East Valencia Road, Tucson, AZ 85706.

Bighorse, Tiana (1990). Bighorse the Warrior. Ed. Noel Bennett, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Brugge, David M. (1968). Navajos in the Catholic Church Records of New Mexico 1694–1875. Window Rock, Arizona: Research Section, The Navajo Tribe.

Clarke, Dwight L. (1961). Stephen Watts Kearny: Soldier of the West. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

CONNELLY, WILLIAM E.: Doniphan’s Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California. Published by the author, Topeka, Kansas, 1907. Includes a reprint of the work of Colonel John T. Hughes.

COOLIDGE, DANE: Under The Sun: A Novel of the Navajo Exile in 1863-68. New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, 1927.

CURTIS, EDWARD S.: The North American Indian. 9 vols. New York and London, 1907. Vol. I, The Navajos.

Dinetah: Navajo History. Volume II.

Downs, James F. (1972). The Navajo. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Dyke, Walter (1967). Son of Old Man Hat. Lincoln, Nebraska: Bison Books & University of Nebraska Press. LCCN 44-2654.

Forbes, Jack D. (1960). Apache, Navajo and Spaniard. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. LCCN 60-13480.

Franciscan Fathers. (1910) An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language. St. Michael’s, Arizona: St. Michael’s Press

FRANCISCAN FATHERS: An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navajo Language. Saint Michaels, Arizona, 1910. St. Francis Book Shop, 1615 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. New edition.

Frank McNitt, Navajo Wars, Military Campaigns, Slave Raids and Reprisals, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1972. –The Indian Traders, University of Oklahoma Press, 1962

George Wharton James, Indian Blankets and Their Makers -The Navaho, Rio Grande Classic Reprint, Glorieta, New Mexico, 1970.

Haile, Berard –Navajo Coyote Tales: The Curly To Aheedliini Version. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. E99.N3 H243

HAILE, FATHER BERARD: A Manual of Navajo Grammar. Saint Michaels, Arizona, 1926.

Hammond, George P. and Rey, Agapito (editors) (1940). Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540–1542. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Iverson, Peter – The Navajos. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990. E99.N3 I89

Iverson, Peter (2002). Diné: A History of the Navahos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0-8263-2714-1.

Iverson, Peter, and Monty Roessel. 2002. A History of the Navajos. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Iverson, Peter, Navajo Nation, University of New Mexico Press, Journalism Building, Room 220, Albuquerque, NM 87131.

James, George Wharton. 1914. Indian Blankets and Their Makers. A.C. McClurg, Chicago.

JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON: Indian Blankets and Their Makers. Chicago, McClurg, 1920.

James, H.L. 2005 [1974, 1988] Rugs and Posts: The Story of Navajo Weaving and Indian Trading. Revised and updated 3rd edition. Schiffer Publishing Ltd, Atglen, PA.

Kelly, Lawrence (1970). Navajo Roundup Pruett Pub. Co., Colorado.

Klah, H. (1942) Navajo Creation Myth: The Story of Emergence. Recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright. Navajo Religion Series, vol. 1. Santa Fe: Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Arts

Locke, R.F. (1992) The Book of the Navajo. 5th Ed. Los Angeles: Mankind Publishing Co

McNitt, Frank (1972). Navajo Wars. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

McNitt, Frank. 1962. The Indian Traders. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

McNitt, Frank. 1966 (1957). Richard Wetherill, Anasazi. Rev. ed. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Newcomb, F.J. (1967) Navaho Folk Tales. Santa Fe: Museum of Navaho Ceremonial Art

Plog, Stephen Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest. Thames and London, LTD, London, England, 1997. ISBN 0-500-27939-X.

Reichard, G.A. (1977) Navajo Medicine Man Sandpaintings. New York: Dover Publications (reprint of 1939 edition entitled Navajo Medicine Man)

REICHARD, GLADYS A.: Social Life of the Navajo Indians. (Chiefly clans and genealogy.) Columbia University Publications, vol. VII ( 1928).

Richardson, Gladwell. 1986. Navajo Trader, ed. by Philip Reed Rulon. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Roberts, Willow. 1987. Stokes Carson: Twentieth-Century Trading on the Navajo Reservation. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.

Roessel, Monty – Kinaalda: A Navajo Girl Grows Up. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1993. E99.N3 R597

Roessel, Robert A. Jr.- Navajo Education, 1948-1978: It’s Progress and It’s Problems. Rough Rock, AZ: Navajo Curriculum Center, Rough Rock Demonstration School, 1979. E99.N3 N32x v.3:A

Roessel, Robert A. Jr. – Dinetah: Navajo History, Volume II. Rough Rock, AZ: Navajo Curriculum Center, Rough Rock Demonstration School, 1983. E99.N3 N32x v.2

Roessel, Robert A. Jr. – Navajo Arts and Crafts. Rough Rock, AZ: Navajo Curriculum Center, Rough Rock Demonstration School, 1983. E99.N3 R633

Roessel, Ruth (editor) (1973). Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press.

Roessel, Ruth, ed (1974). Navajo Livestock Reduction: A National Disgrace. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press. ISBN 0-912586-18-4.

Ruth Underhill – The Navajos (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 118.

STEVENSON, JAMES: Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis [The Night Chant] and Mythical Sand-Painting of the Navajo Indians. Eighth Report of Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 1891.

Underhill, Ruth M. – The Navajos. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. E99.N3 U32

Williams, Lester L., M.D. 1989. C.N. Cotton and His Navajo Blankets: A Biography of C.N. Cotton, Gallup, New Mexico Indian Trader. Awanyu Publishing, Inc. [Santa Fe? Glorieta?]

Witherspoon, Gary (1977). Language and Art in the Navajo Universe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Witte, Daniel. Removing Classrooms from the Battlefield: Liberty, Paternalism, and the Redemptive Promise of Educational Choice, 2008 BYU Law Review 377 The Navajo and Richard Henry Pratt

Young, Robert. 1958. The Navajo Yearbook 1958. US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo Agency, Window Rock, AZ.

Zaballos, Nausica (2009). Le système de santé navajo. Paris: L’Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-07975-5.