The following resources are more widely available, either online or through major booksellers. These resources are mentioned in the presentation.
Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way by Dr. Christine Ami is an Associate Professor at Diné College and a recent National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Her dissertation, Dííjí Nída'iil'ah (Today, We Butcher) : A Study of Navajo Traditional Sheep Butchering, is the focus of her upcoming book. Dr. Ami is a frequent collaborator with the library; her partnership has let to several programming and education outreach initiatives such as workshops with the Navajo Cultural Arts Program, Indigenous documentaries screening with the Native American Studies Minor, as well as a lecture series When We Read What They Wrote: Dissertations on Indigenous Peoples Analyzed by Indigenous Peoples. Dr. Ami documents her fellowship journey and as well as her academic work, curriculum development, and entrepreneurship on her website, which can be accessed here.
Dr. Ami's dissertation, which references many of the resources at the Kinyaa'áanii Library, is available for at the library. There is one circulating copy and one non-circulating reference copy in the the Moses-Donner Indian Materials Collection at the Tsaile Library. The call number is E99 .N3 A45 2016.
Tsá’ází: Traditional Navajo Foods and Cooking Special Double Issue, Volume III, Number 4 and Volume VI, Number 1 by Pine Hill Native American Materials Development Center, 1979
Slaughtering a Goat, Using it Navajo Fashion: A School Project set up and developed at the Fort Wingate High School, Gallup, New Mexico by Stella Young, Head of Home Economics Department, November 1934
Growing and Using Indian Corn, Navajo Fashion, Charles M. Burke Indian School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico, February 1936
The Navajo Homemaker Cook Book, by the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity
Leading the Way: Wisdom of the Navajo People - Leading the Way is a monthly magazine featuring cultural heritage teachings of the Diné People in both English and Navajo. Below are a selection of articles featuring Navajo cooking and stories related to Navajo food preparation. The Kinyaa’áanii Library has the entire run of the magazine in it’s non-circulating collection.
