Navajo Sacred Places

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Description

The Navajo see even the most minute parts of their homelands and surrounding territory as infused with sacred significance. Places of special power are the most alive, and stories regularly go with them. Navajos visit these places to hook up with their power. The places anchor the ways of Navajo life in addition to the stories about the origins and the correct pursuit of those ways.
Navajos have responded to curiosity about these places and landscapes by trying to keep the locations and stories at the back of them secret – to save the sites from destruction and to keep their power from being sapped. In the face of unbridled land development, on the other hand, protecting the landscapes may mean telling the stories, and it is in that spirit that Kelley and Francis discuss the Navajo’s sacred landscapes and the stories that go with them.
Navajos tell many kinds of stories, both old and new, about these landscapes, and Kelley and Francis have included a few of these stories in this book. The authors consider that in time more examples may be revealed with the blessing of the Navajos who handle them, but the day when Navajos willingly give many such stories to others will come only when the Navajo people themselves have gained regulate over using their land.

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