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Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life (2011)

by Jim Kristofic(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0826349463 (ISBN13: 9780826349460)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

University of New Mexico Press

review 1: Navajos Wear Nikes should be required reading for high school, or possibly middle school, students everywhere. For that matter, adults should read this slim volume too. Kristofic moved from Pittsburg to Ganado on the Navajo Nation with his mom and brother when he was in the second grade, and lived on or just off the Nation through high school graduation. His mother, a nurse, ultimately married a Navajo and had two more children. Kristofic gained a rare perspective on Navajo life and culture as a white person, and remains respectful and clear-eyed about the experience. He describes a childhood full of tough teasing and fist fights -- even the "play" was rough -- but the experience made him tougher without becoming hard. He's now a young man working as a teacher and completi... moreng an oral history project of Navajos. All in all, an important window on Navajo culture and an enjoyable read.
review 2: I saw a review of this book and decided to download it to my Kindle before a trip. I really enjoyed it. The author's first-person account of moving with his single mom (a nurse) and little brother from the Pittsburgh suburbs to the Navajo reservation in Ganado, AZ when he was just in grade school. His recollections of growing up there were honest, well-written, sensitive, and portrayed the beauty as well as the violence; the toughness and the kindness of the people he came to know and love. less

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