A Navajo legacy

the long version

A Navajo medicine man tells his life story, including his apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessingway ceremony, his travels over the desert to find forage for the animals and plants for healing practices, his memories of the invasion of Monument Valley by whites, his experiences in the early filmmaking industry, his time in the Civilian Conservation Corps and the military, and his work mining one of the two largest uranium deposits on the Navajo Reservation. The book's second part details the family and tribal teachings Holiday has acquired over a long life.