“Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty”

WINNER: BEST MULTICULTURAL BOOK,
INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION and NEW MEXICO ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS

Absorb their wisdom as more than 60 Navajo grandmothers, mothers, and daughters in 21 families open up about their lives, their culture, and their love for each other in Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty.

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In these compelling, multi-generational oral histories collected by Kathy Eckles Hooker, women talk about their experiences in their own words. As they do, their faces are captured in defining portraits by photographer David Young-Wolff, whose evocative portraits demonstrate the insights gleaned from his 45-year career as one of America’s top producers of stock and portrait photography. 

The book is a cousin to Hooker’s other book from Soulstice, We Walk the Earth in Beauty: Traditional Navajo Lifeways (with photographer Helen Lau Running). Learn about We Walk the Earth in Beauty here.

Along with the women’s stories are informative chapters about Navajo history and culture, including the coming-of-age ceremony (kinaaldá), Changing Woman, the Long Walk, education, and the importance of sheep to Navajo lifeways.

For anyone who wants to understand the lives of Native American women today, especially the lives of Navajo women, this book opens the door. Buy yours today!

We donate a portion of profits to the nonprofit Adopt-A-Native-Elder, which “serves to help reduce extreme poverty and hardship facing traditional Elders living on the Navajo Reservation.”

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