Purchase the Book
Crossing Between Worlds, by Dr. Jeanne Simonelli is an excellent introduction to the Diné and the Canyon and a rare and wonderful chance to meet the extended family of your Canyon de Chelly Diné guides. Order the second edition now -- available February 28, 2008.
Quote from Crossing Between
Worlds book jacket:
" In Crossing Between Worlds, Dr.
Jeanne Simonelli, Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University,
who has spent time at Canyon de Chelly as a seasonal park ranger and directs
a Wake
Forest program on the Southwest, interweaves stories of her personal
experiences and friendships with canyon residents with discussion of native
history and culture in the region. Dr Simonelli also directs a summer
program at State University
of New York College at Oneonta.
"Focusing on the members of one extended Navajo family (see the
Your Diné Guides section of
this site) Simonelli describes the small movements of their daily lives:
shearing goats, baking bread, attending a solemn all-night healing ceremony
. . . talking about the history of the Diné - the Navajo people
- and pondering the changes they have witnessed in the canyon and the
difficulties they confront"
