Wolfkiller: Wisdom from a Ninetheenth-Century Navajo Shepherd

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Fascinating history and compelling storytelling make Wolfkiller, the memoir of a Navajo shepherd man who lived in the Monument Valley region of the Southwest, a page-turning epic. In these stories compiled by Harvey Leake, Wolfkiller shares the ancient wisdom of the Navajo elders that used to be passed to him whilst a boy growing up near the Utah/Arizona border. Wolfkiller’s story used to be recorded and translated by pioneer trader Louisa Wade Wetherill, an unlikely pairing that came together when she moved to this remote area of southern Utah in 1906. Wetherill recognized that Wolfkiller used to be a man of exceptional character, with lessons and wisdom of the Navajo that deserved to be recorded and preserved for the good thing about future generations. Over the course of many years, Wolfkiller told his stories to Wetherill who translated them into English. When the manuscript used to be completed in 1932, brand new society used to be simply not in a position for it. Rejected by publishers, the document languished in the circle of relatives archives until as of late, long after Wolfkiller and Mrs. Wetherill were gone, it can now be recognized as a unique and profound book that speaks to brand new culture’s compulsive rush away from nature. Included are photographs of Wolfkiller and the Wetherills, all taken from about 1906 to 1926. More than forty other historical photographs are also included. “If Mrs. Wetherill might be persuaded to write at the mythology of the Navajos, and also on their present-day psychology-by which fairly magniloquent term I mean their present ways and habits of thought-she would render an invaluable service. She not only knows their language; she knows their minds. . . .” Theodore Roosevelt, after visiting the Wetherill trading post in 1913.

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