Navaho Legends

Navaho Legends is one of the earliest collections of Navajo oral traditions in English, and still the best. Originally published in 1897, Washington Matthews’s sensitive translation contains extensive versions of the Original Legend and two other tales. These richly detailed legends remain among the most complete sources of Navajo cultural, ritual, and ceremonial information.

This edition is fully faithful to the original, containing Matthews’s introduction, extensive notes, interlinear prayer translations, musical notations, and index, plus a new note on orthography by Robert Young.

• Navaho Myths, Prayers, and Songs
• The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony
• Sharing the Skies: Navajo Astronomy
• The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony
• The Prayer of a Navajo Shaman (Classic Reprint)
• Language and Art in the Navajo Universe
• Washington Matthews: Studies of Navajo Culture, 1880-1894
• Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story
• Navaho Indian Myths (Native American)
• Dinéjí Na`nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History