Navajo Sheepherding and Weaving Homepage

During the spring semester of 2002, I was one of the graduate students enrolled in Professor Loriene Roy's Library Instruction class. We were introduced to the ongoing Virtual Library project supporting the needs of pre-service teachers at Northwest Indian College in Lummi, Washington. Concurrently, we were introduced to the film, The Return of Navajo Boy, a film produced by a fellow student, Bennie Klain. The film would provide the vehicle to explore a number of important themes and issues endemic to the Native American community in general and the Navajo community in particular. We learned about specific long-standing issues that continue to affect the welfare of Native American communities.

The information presented here is a synthesis of multiple World Wide Web (WWW) information sources about weaving and sheep, Navajo culture and society. I used these information sources myself for this web project. You can find a list of the specific Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) documented on the resource web page of this web site.

This web site is one part of my contribution to these ongoing web-based projects, and one small part of the overall contribution made by my colleagues this semester and in previous semesters. I hope it proves to be of some value. Our web site projects are more than education. As ideas, they argue for equity and fairness in the shared social landscape that we call our American society.

Best Regards,

Norman Rubin

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