Navajo Blessingway Singer - The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell, 1881-1967 (Paperback)

A skillful, meticulous, and altogether praiseworthy contribution to Navajo studies. . . . Although the focus of Mitchells autobiography is upon his role as a Blessingway singer, there is much material here on Navajo history and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mitchell attended the government school at Fort Defiance, worked on the railroad in Arizona, served as a handyman and interpreter at several trading posts and the Franciscan missions, and later served as a tribal councilman in the 1930s and as a judge in the 1940s and 1950s. His observations on these experiences are relevant to our understanding of contemporary Navajo life.Lawrence C. Kelly, "Western Historical Quarterly"

This book stands easily among the best of the native autobiographies. Narrated by a thoughtful and articulate Navajo leader over a span of eighteen years, this life history is brought into English with none of the selective romanticizing that has spoiled some books. . . . �It is� a superb job of bringing one culture ever closer to another.Barre Tolken, "Western Folklore"

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