| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4 | The History Cooperative

*A Navajo Legacy: The Life and Teachings of John Holiday*. By John Holiday and Robert S. McPherson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xxii + 394 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $29.95.)
Imagine evening in a hogan with your siblings. In an old wooden chair by the fire sits an old man, he clears his throat and begins telling stories about his life. Outside, snow falls and the wind blows; this is an appropriate time for telling stories. The stories you listen to are not only about his life, they are lessons on what it is to be a Navajo, or more appropriately, what it is to be human. To read John Holiday's autobiography is to be sitting near the fire listening to the storytelling.	1
Robert McPherson's efforts in collecting the stories gives Holiday's autobiography a well-crafted narrative that relates stories about his life and his education as a medicine man to his teachings as a Navajo. McPherson's excellent scholarly background notes are a testimony to his understanding of Navajo people. The autobiography provides rich historical, geographical, and ethnographic knowledge of a medicine man from the northern region of the Navajo Nation.	. . .

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