Cooks will learn from his authentic recipes

a Lumbee herself

It is the beauty of Diné bizaad from Creation’s horizon—K'é breath

and a son bleeds into the father carrying him home

a mother of six

Saanii Dahataal: Poems and Stories Shoshone Cooks will learn from hisIn this cycle of poetry and stories, Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso shares memories of her home in Shiprock, New Mexico, and of the places and people there. Through these celebrations of birth, partings, and reunions, this gifted writer displays both her love of the Navajo world and her resonant use of language. Blending memoir and fiction in the storytelling style common to many Indian traditions, Tapahonso's writing shows that life and death are