Presented here is a collection of the life stories of 15 famous Navajo leaders. The document explores the eventful, often tragic, history of the Navajo Tribe from the time of Narbona (1773), when Navajoland was Spanish territory, to the present. The document presents this historical account in a manner that reflects the pride and dignity of the…

The life stories of eight Navajo ("Dine", their term for themselves) leaders are presented in volume one of this collection of biographies. Interspersed with portraits, drawings, and maps, the narrative chronologically covers the time period from 1766 when the Navajos lived on land under the rule of Spain into the twentieth century and…

The second of two volumes, this collection contains biographies of seven Navajo men and women chosen to represent Navajo leadership in the twentieth century. Originally appearing in a 1970 publication of the Rough Rock Demonstration School, the biographies appear here unchanged in order to make them available once again. In addition to the life…