Interpreting Texts, Making Meaning: Starting Small

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.02.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Context
  4. Rationale
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Standards
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. Appendices

Seasonal Dine/Navajo Poetry: Interpreting the Seasons through Dine/Navajo Culture

LeAndrea James

Published September 2013

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Annotated Bibliography

1. Zah, Peterson, and Peter Iverson. We will secure our future: empowering the Navajo nation. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012.

The book was helpful to cement the importance of youth embracing their culture.

2. MacDonald, Peter, and Ted Schwarz. The last warrior: Peter MacDonald and the Navajo Nation. New York: Orion Books, 1993.

The book was helpful to highlight the importance of Navajo culture.

3. McCarty, T. L., and Fred Bia. A place to be Navajo: Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in indigenous schooling. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. Print.

The book explained the implication of maintaining the Dine language among the Navajo people.

4. Yazzie, Evangeline, and Irving Toddy. Dza?ni? ya?zhi? naazbaa ?= Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home : a story of the Navajo Long Walk. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Salina Bookshelf, 2005.

A young Dine girl experiences the Navajo Long Walk.

5. Clark, Ann Nolan, and Hoke Denetsosie. Little herder in spring. English ed. Washington: Education Division, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, 1940.

The book contains poems about spring as the season relates to Dine people and their way of life. The book is written in English and Dine language.

6. Clark, Ann Nolan, and Hoke Denetsosie. Little herder in winter. Washington, D.C.?: Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1969.

The book contains poems about winter as the season relates to Dine people and their way of life. The book is written in English and Dine language.

7. Clark, Ann Nolan, and Hoke Denetsosie. Little herder in autumn. Washington, D.C.?: Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1970.

The book contains poems about Autumn as the season relates to Dine people and their way of life. The book is written in English and Dine language.

8. Hunter, Sara Hoagland, and Julia Miner. The unbreakable code. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Pub., 1996.

A grandfather tells the story to his grandson about the Navajo Code Talkers.

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