No Parole Today

by Laura Tohe

Book Overview

This first collection, in prose memoir and poetry, of the work of a Navajo poet and teacher describes attending a government school for Indian children and the challenge it presented to her socially, culturally, and expressively. Laura Tohe says this of her experience:

"I was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, and raised on the Din? (Navajo) Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. I grew up speaking Din? as my primary language. For a while we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931122937
• ISBN13: 9780931122934
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: West End Press
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Must read!

Laura is an excellent storyteller, I couldn't put the book down. Very sad what we inflicted on America's native people. How arrogant we are to think our way and our religion is better than theirs. I shutter to think this was still happening until recently. To destroy the cultures and lives of so many people is unthinkable, it really is a form of genocide. Shame on our government.