Shoveling Snow – Navajo Language Lesson

Shoveling Snow  - Navajo Language Lesson

I help my mother shovel snow.
We make a path to the sheep corral and to my grandmother’s hogan.
I The snow, so soft to feel is hard to shovel.

Shoveling Snow text-2

 

 

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Build a Fire – Navajo Language Lesson

They will build a fire to melt snow into water to give to the sheep
My father blows on his hands to warm them

Build a Fire - Navajo Language Lesson

They will build a fire to melt snow into water to give to the sheep.
It takes much wood to make a fire to melt snow into water,
but if the sheep have water to drink they do not hunger so much.

My father blows on his hands to warm them.
His breath looks like smoke.
My father shreds juniper bark to start the outdoor fire.
He takes a lighted stick from our fire. ‘
He takes it outside..
He puts it under the bark and the dry wood, and kneeling down he blows on it.
Soon a small flame comes

Source : “Little Herder in the Winter” by Ann Clark 1940
Illustrated by:

Hoke Denetsosie
Linguistics by:
John P. Harrington
Robert W. Young


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