Ebook: Grandfather Stories. Volume II

Publisher: ERIC
Publication date: 1988
Pages: 46At one time "all Navaho stories were handed down from generation to gendrition by word of mputh. Some stories were recorded and then trnsalated into English. In the process of translation, the stories often times lost their meaning. To avoid this, the second volume of. "Grandfether-Storift," whichliere told by elders living in the vicinity of Rough Rock and Ilack mountain, has Inch written in Na#aho and then translated into English. The'sit stories, which may ,be used for supplemental reading metetial, are about game animals that were taken from the people, the antelope hunt, an escape from the Spanish, a close encounter with wolves, cattle and atsnowestoim.