This is my place, Navajo Spaceships, Star Mountain & Rez Memories a place for stories about Navajo life.

Contents

Tiem of Big Snow (January 2005) Stories

Native Born A Native American watches new citizens being sworn in

Steamed Corn The old man told the little boy, we are going to eat some corn

running for dawn Dawn Boy and Dawn Girl

Chiliman and boy named Chee It was almost Thanksgiving in Flagstaff (Kinlani)

By the Shiprock Bridge A Navajo high school student finds a place to live by the Shiprock bridge

She comes from Lechee A Navajo woman and her three kids hit the road and sell indian jewelry

Dibe' bii Nataani An old couple have no feed or water for their animals and go to the local headman to talk about it

Toe Jams, Pow Wow Singer and the 4th of July Pow Wow Sometimes Singing at Pow Wows leads to meeting someone from your dreams.

What Were Their Names? A story about the Utes being chased out of Old Colorado

Can We Go to the Fair? The Navajo Nation Fair is coming up.

Waterhauling and the first time It was summer and the night was long

Navajo Grandfather Tishroo remembering her grandfather

Old Ned Hosteen Nez forgot where he came from

Sweet Gentle Earth

Navajo Silversmith

Tahzi!

morning coffee

Shiprock & The Monster Birds-our legend Tse Nahlyehee & the Twin Heros-Monstor Slayer and Child Born for Water fight for our survival

In Beauty It Begins

There was this One Hitchhiker

Skinwalkers West of Ganado on the Road to Chinle

They Come When You Are Alone a story of Navajo Skinwalkers, two Mormon women missionaries alone on a dark night in the middle of the Navajo Reservation miles from anyone

let's go inside and get something to eat

Claras Peeling PotatoesSometimes getting credit on the rez is a hard thing to do and hard to hang on to

Hooshtah- Standing on a windswept plain, you can hear the sound of it as it comes softly

She has Flashing Eyes fathers and daughters

Wahoo A young boy walks with his father to check the mail at the trading post and his father tells him about his time at war

Nacho Life in an indian boarding school can be hard during holidays

Speaking in Tongues A Dutch missionary goes to the trading post to learn a few words in Navajo to preach on Sunday

Metwe' Metwe' In Hopi thay have a name for those who marry one of their own and join them

The Singers Have Gone Away What happens to the sound of an gourd rattle once the summer is over

Borrowed Keyboards A young Navajo mother dreams of writing, being more that just a secretary and to see the world through the web

Navajo Medicineman A Navajo family prepares for a healing ceremony for the mind, body and spirit. An old couple rides to see a Singer, A Navajo Singer from Tonalea to comes to Two Gray Hills to do his use his skills in the Navajo Way, to perform a ceremony

The Field It wasn't really green and sat across the wash. Dry Farming is carrying 300 buckets of water by hand to water each plant from a small stream each summer while Smoky and Blackie watched.

Towering House Way up on the side of Chuska Mountain sits an old Towering House Ruin where the young boy Eshkee plays.

Whitehorse's Daughter

Chrissy's Lemonade Stand a young girl wants to earn money to buy school clohes

Where the Mountain is Split and the Water Flows-Toadlena' near Two Gray Hills and the Chuska Mountains

Navajo Long Walk & Althabah, A Young Navajo Girl one story of a Navajo orphan from 1868 and her return home

Dress Blues' a young marine brings homes his Japanese bride

Blue Eyes a young woman dances indian traditional at pow wows with her two small sons even though she has blue eyes.

The Goat Woman A sing, a goat and a blonde near Kaibeto

Broken Leg a young boy finds a dog with a broken leg

Little Creek A young Chippewa from Chicago and Pow Wow dancing

The Buckskin A buckskin from Montana and a white dress for Grand Entry

Sundance- Night Before the First Dawn A young man enters the Sundance corral for the first time and dances the first night

Momo & A Little Girl An old stuffed animal who comes home for Christmas

Macheveant a grandson wants to know about his grandmother's allotted indian land

Where are the good hearts, Grandfather? A small child seeks answers to why some people act a certain way, when all men should be good to one another

He Just Walked on Down the Road Indian veteran, broken dreams ends up in a tribal jail after the Pow Wow

La..La..La..Loving You Hearing some songs take you back to yesterday and that one you remember

Riding to the Shiprock Fair Northern Navajo celebration and travelling there by horse

Stew Stands A small place to eat, pleasant company and a good meal

the Deerhunter an old Indian grandmother at Circle K goes hunting

Let Me Dance Sometimes the music is just right and you have to move

A High Silent Place Southwestern Mesa not far from home and Old Anasazi remembrances

Saturday Flea Market: Gallup Headed to town across reservation roads and heading down the road

Shiprock-Winged Monsters "Tse Nalyehe" the Legend of Shiprock and Twin Heros-Navajo legend

I Know You Will Be Ashamed of Me" he would tell us don't be uneducated like me only went to the third grade

Medicinemen a story about how one has a ceremonial and why

Firedancer dance, tradition and how we learn from them

First Thunder the change of seasons from winter to spring, how it begins

She was called "Two Gray Hills" A young Indian girl from a remote place grows up caring for her family

Sweet Water a poem about being thirsty and seeking that taste of sweet water in a traditional life

The Cornfield the traditional way of doing things, like dividing a harvest

Wingate Valley Boys and Show Low a story about Navajo youth going to a dance someplace down the road

Bitter Winds sometimes the wind blows hard and stings your face like in problems in real life

Tell Me Where Can I Find Her thinking about finding an Indian woman with traditional values

The Other Brother a story about how some tell you how to do things and tell you what to do always

Native Born watching foreigners becoming American Citizens-one native american view

Pony Soldier Motel a cleaning woman teaches her son about life and how hard work is

Tazhii', the Turkey and Chee a Navajo boy and Thanksgiving A Navajo boy in Flagstaff learns about his family on Thanksgiving long ago

Little Brown Eyes Wondered Is There a Place Like This? A Navajo child wonders about Christmas standing out in the cold with her mother

Headed Home A young sailor gets a chance to head home for the Holidays

Nomo, a Christmas Story A young indian girl and a stuffed rabbit and Christmas

I would like to apologize for my grammar in the use of English in my writing. These stories are a taste of Navajo life, without fanfare or saber rattling.

I named my website Navajo Spaceships because I envisioned it to be a flight into the imagination, taking us to a higher place. I am Navajo writer. Please take a minute and read some of these stories. I don’t have any professional writing experience, so I am a new born in this area. If you want to send me a thought or some of your experiences please Above you will see different pages on this site

Laughing Road is about stories of growing up. Star Mountain is about stories of Navajo Life. Star Ships is about Navajo Legends & stories. Heart Songs is about Romance, Love and Life. Strong Hearts are your contributions & writings sent to me

e-mail me your thoughts. I hope you enjoy the writings here. Also these writings are based on some truth and some are fictional. They are not offensive in nature.

I am a Navajo by birth, born of Bitahni, the Folded Rocks Clan People on my mother’s side, and born for Tsinahbiltnii, tne Mountain People Clan on my father’s side. I come from Toadlena-Two Gray Hills, New Mexico, where the mountain is cracked and the water flows.

I am interested in learning about you. It occurred to me that there is a huge world out there and it is not lost to me that I will not see the whole thing, but only through your eyes. We take a lot for granted and the most ordinary things we do everyday maybe something I will never see or know, so I would like to learn about you and where you live.

I did not realize I was just following a trail of an 1890 Sioux girl, a former boarding school student like me, who started out to these places a century before I got here, she took at trip to the moon in 1900 from Carlisle Boarding School, this is taken from research on Carlisle Indian School,it begins as follows: I found that I am just a traveler along this road which was started along time ago. A young girl from Carlisle Indian School started this. "The Nellie we know best is that girl who took a trip to the moon in 1890. It was that Nellie who came to Carlisle as a student, graduated in the second class (1890), went on to university, returned to Carlisle as teacher and then matron, and was one of the last people on campus when it closed in 1918" Nellie's Trip to the Moon

I want to travel to the mountain tops, the valleys, lowlands and plains of this land and can only do so through you, so please take a look around and tell me a little about you and where you are from.

As a note these writings are copyrighted under my name, so please out of respect let me know if you want to use any one of them, Thanks.

I thought I would say thank you for the kind words and e-mails I have received, and you may use the stories for any good purpose, but are not to be sold or used for financial gain. If you want to send a note saying you are using then that would be appreciated. I am planning a seperate page for contributions sent in, so if you would like to write something send it to me.