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Book Review: NavajoLand
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 NavajoLand
A Native Son Shares His Legacy Text and photography by LeRoy DeJolie (Navajo); foreword by Tony Hillerman; Arizona Highways Books; Phoenix, AZ; 2005; 80 pages; $12.95 paperbound Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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Book Review: Ishi's Brain
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 Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian
By Orin Starn; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; New York, NY; 2004; 320 pages; $25.95 clothbound Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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Book Review: The Whale Rider
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 A novel for ages 10 and up by Witi Ihimaera (Maori), Harcourt Books, San Diego, 2003; 160 pages, $8 paperbound
The Whale Rider, originally published in 1987 and the inspiration for the award-winning film Whale Rider, has finally made its way from New Zealand across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa, or the Great Ocean of Kiwa, to the Americas.
Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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Book Review: Blanket Weaving in the Southwest
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 By Joe Ben Wheat; edited by Ann Lane Hedlund, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2003; 440 pages, $75 clothbound
Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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N. Scott Momaday
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 He is large in all respects: in intellect, in accomplishment, in spirit, in the level of respect he engenders—and physically, as he says, “I am a bear.” In 1969, the realm of Native American literature and scholarly acknowledgment passed a major milestone when Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his powerful, dark and moving first novel, House Made of Dawn.
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