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Din Tah: My Reservation Days (1923-1939)
By: Alwin J. Girdner
The bicultural story of a childhood on the Navajo Reservation.
In this remarkable memoir, Alwin “Rusty” Girdner recalls his childhood on the Navajo Reservation during the early 20th century. Girdner, the son of Plymouth Brethren missionaries, lived in the remote Four Corners area of the Navajo Reservation. He spent much of his first 18 years among the Navajo, having little contact with the outside world. Engagingly told and illustrated with previously unpublished photographs, these are heart warming stories of events seen through the clear eyes of a young boy, before World War II changed forever the traditional way of life -and the language- of a native people living in a special place far removed from mainstream American society. (Includes 50 B/W photos)
Alwin J. Girdner had two nicknames when he was growing up in Din Tah. In English the redheaded boy was called “Rusty”, and in Navajo he was chee yazzie, or “Little Red.” After leaving the reservation in 1939, he traveled in 114 other countries before settling in New Mexico, where he now lives in Albuquerque. He is a native speaker of Navajo and through the years he has studied and maintained lifelong ties to Din culture.
ISBN-13: 9781933855561
Publisher: Rio Nuevo Publishers (2011)
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 1.0 lbs
Pages: 336
Author: Girdner, Alwin J.
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