Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Cultures and Their Scripts; 1. Family and Religion; 2. Work and Play; 3. Pleasures and Transitions; Part II. Boundaries and Border Crossings; 4. Points of Contact; 5. Anglos and Hispanics at School; 6. The Alamo Navajos at School; Part III. Pasts and Promises; 7. Together and Apart; 8. Legacies and Departures; Afterword; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary
"Someday," Candelaria Garcia said to the author, "you will get all the stories." It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a hundred years. But these were the stories, and this was the world, that David Wallace Adams set out to map, in a work that would capture the intimate, complex history of growing up in a Southwest borderland. At the intersection of memory, myth, and history, his book asks what it was like to be a child in a land
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-413) and index