Books like The Book of the Navajo
The Book of the Navajo
1989, Raymond Friday Locke
One of my best friends is Navajo and I used to pester her all the time with my questions about her culture. She knew the answers to some things but not others. Her response to many of my questions about why Navajos did this or that was, "We just do... I don't know why." Finally she told me to go read this book because it was the best one out there and would answer my questions much better than she could. And answer them it did. An excellent book from start to finish. Everything you'd ever want to know about the Navajo people is in there. As a final endorsement, it's a fact that this is one of the few books that her family has on their bookshelf. (And the only one about them as a people.) I think that says everything about it's legitimacy.