The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation oral history and traditional teaching methods

and traditional teaching methods

Megan Baker

and her own and others' stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization

What a wonderful work and what a welcome new voice

This book will serve an important need within Indigenous communities just as the first volume has

The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation oral history and traditional teaching methodsThis inspiring picture book tells the true story of a woman who brings desperately needed water to families on the Navajo reservation every day. Underneath the New Mexico sky, a Navajo boy named Cody finds that his family's barrels of water are empty. He checks the chicken coop nothing. He walks down the road to the horses' watering hole. Dry. Meanwhile, a few miles away, Darlene Arviso drives a school bus and picks up students for school. After