Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life

by Jim Kristofic

Book Overview

Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce. After the births of his Navajo half-siblings, Jim and his family moved off the Reservation to an Arizona border town where they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826349471
• ISBN13: 9780826349477
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"