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Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat A Navaho Autobiography

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ISBN-10: 0803279582

ISBN-13: 9780803279582

Edition: 1995

Authors: Left Handed Staff, Walter Dyk, Edward Sapir, Luci Tapahonso, Left Handed

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/1967
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 5.27" wide x 8.00" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Son of Old Man Hat
He is Born Before His Time and is Taken By His Mother's Older Sister to Live with Old Man Hat . . . Trials and Tribulations . . . He Has Lots of Fun Playing with Paiute Children . . Jealousies and Quarrels
They Move to Lukachukai Mountain For The Summer Where His Mother Talks to Two Black Bears . . . Landi Lands in Trouble . . . . . He Learns About the Yeibichai and What Singers Will Do to Disobedient Children . . They Are Always Happy When Visitors Arrive
Speculations on Man and Nature . . . He Makes a Trip to the Oraibi and a Journey to Fort Defiance
Old Man Thankful's Wife Breaks a Leg. . . They Hold an Nda for Ruins, in Which He Is Also Treated . . . He Finds an Ancient Pot. . . His Father Tells Him What to Do and How To Live
Who Has Mules Spends the Winter Learning Songs and Prayers, and Blue Goat is Cured Of A Disease
His Uncle Advises Him to Get Married . . He is Kicked by a Horse and Cured . . . They Move Again from Place to Place in Search Of Grazing . . . No Neck Tells Them of the Tall Grass at Cedar Standing Near Lake Oraibi
the Way of a Man and a Maid . . . Horse Racing and Wrestling . . . the Last Quarrel . . He Beats the Oraibi at Running . . . How They Find Out You'Ve Been with a Woman, and What To Do About It
They Trade Their Wool for Cattle . . The Adultery of Quiver's Wife and Giving Out Anger and the Trouble That Followed . . . His Father Goes Out in the Snow to Pray for The Horses, and is So Delighted in Spring to See Them Again
They Start a Farm at Anything Falls In . . . Rumors of War . . . the Utes Pass By, and He Trades a Horse for a Gun . . . Flight Before the Troops . . . Old Man Hat Heads AParty of Peace
the Nda That Was Given for Stutterer. . . Snakes and String Figures
the Death of the Wife of Who Has Mules . . . in the Spring They Move and Plant And Shear Again . . . He Takes the Wool to The Store, and When He Comes Back They Are So Pleased and Thankful
He Loses a Horse and a Girl, but is Consoled . . . the Old Man Begins to Go Down . . . Why Slim Man Never Came Around Any More . . . "I'M Full of Sorrow for the Days Of My Youth" . . . His Father Speaks to Him Of Property and Life, and Teaches Him Some Songs
the End of Old Man Hat
They Divide the Old Man's Goods And Move Away . . . the Bear That Killed a Horse. . . They Move Back to Anything Falls In, And Be Looks Up an Old Friend . . . Comedy at Oraibi. . . He is Suspected of Killing the People's Cattle
His Mother Marries Him Off
He Visits Relatives and Collects Several Gifts, Including an Old Gun . . . He is Admired And Envied for His Good Clothes and Accused Of Picking Up a String of Turquoise . . . He Lies With Slim Man's Wife to His Regret . . . They Steal Peaches from the Oraibi
Two Girls Accept His Challenge . . He Has Someone Under Him Again . . . His Mother Makes a Had Bargain . . . He Hears Of His Real Mother's Death . . . He Hides His Stuff In a Treetop on the Mountain, and They Move To the Cornfield
He Goes to an Nda and Has Several Proposals . . . and Marries the Wrong Girl