Printed gray wrappers, 12mo. First Edition,viii + 184 pages. Very good, Interior is clean and tight. The author was a Franciscan priest and one of the foremost authorities on Navajo anthropology. He developed an interest in Navajo language and culture.and helped devise a written alphabet of the Navajo language and published a four volume work on learning Navajo. This is volume one. Rare. In 1953 the Navajo Tribal Council passed a resolution which read in part: "Father Berard Haile has spent his life among the Navajo people learning to know and understand us and our religion, and has, more than any other living non-Indian, through close contact with Navajos and the medicine men of our tribe and by his indefatigable labor, reduced our language to written form and succeeded in preserving for future generations the knowledge of the Navajo history and religion."

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