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Stacia Spragg-Braude. To Walk in Beauty: A Navajo Family’s Journey Home. Afterword by N. Scott Momaday. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009. 200 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Jeff Berglund, Northern Arizona University A former photographer for the Albuquerque Tribune, author Stacia Spragg- Braude has assembled an intimate portrait of one family’s continuing effort to maintain their ties to Navajo cultural traditions. The author fi rst came to know the Goldtooth and Mary Begay family when on assignment for a story on the successful reintroduction of the culturally vital Churro sheep in Jeddito, Ari- zona. After the Long Walk and in the decades subsequent to the federal govern- ment’s livestock reduction program, Churro sheep were virtually eradicated. Readers looking for an in-depth history of Navajo history and sheep would be advised to look at Marsha L. Weisiger’s Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country (2009), but readers interested in glimpsing emotionally resonant moments of familial and cultural resilience will want to spend time poring over the eighty- one black-and-white photographs Spragg-Braude has culled from her archives. Spragg-Braude’s photographs from 1997 to 2007 document the everyday lives and special occasions of the extended Begay family and the ways that Churro sheep
The American Indian Quarterly – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Feb 6, 2011
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