BOOKS & CDs
BOOKS & CDs
Explore insightful books and thoughtful writings crafted to inspire and inform.
Code Talker Stories, my most recent book, is an oral history book that contains storytelling interviews with 20 of the remaining Navajo Code Talkers who devised a secret code using the Navajo language that was never deciphered during WWII. It is a bilingual text in English and Navajo with images by Deborah O’Grady.
Making Friends with Water (Out of Print)
Her chapbook on water, Making Friends with Water was translated into modern dance by The Moving Company in Omaha, Nebraska and was a Prize Winner for Dance Performance from the Institute of Creative Research and Sport Art Academy.
No Parole Today, West End Press (Out of Print)
This book on boarding schools, No Parole Today, won the 1999 Poetry of the Year awarded by the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers. Widely taught in colleges and universities, it is in its 5th printing.
Tseyí Deep in the Rock, in collaboration with photographer, Stephen Strom contains poetry and images. It won the Glyph Award for Best Poetry and Best Book by the Arizona Book Association and was listed as a Southwest Book of the Year by Tucson-Pima Public Library.
She co-edited with Heid Erdrich, Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community, an anthology of poetry and fiction by Indigenous women. Published by the Minnesota Historical Society, it was nominated for an award.
In 2007 the Phoenix Symphony commissioned me to write the libretto for Enemy Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio, which made its 2008 world premiere as part of the Phoenix Symphony’s 60th anniversary in collaboration with composer, Mark Grey, sung by Scott Hendricks, baritone, conducted by Michael Christie, the Phoenix Symphony’s Virginia Piper Music Director and with images by Deborah O’Grady. A compact disc recording of Enemy Slayer is on the Naxos classical music label. Enemy Slayer was part of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado in July 2008 and was also performed by the Salt Lake Choral Artists at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah in 2009.
Coffee in Blue Porcelain
Arcadia
Paint Art Photography
Arcadia