Kinaaldá : a Navajo girl grows up /

Roessel, Monty.

Kinaaldá : a Navajo girl grows up / text and photographs by Monty Roessel ; with a foreword by Michael Dorris. - Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, 1993. - 47 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 47).

Celinda McKelvey, a Navajo girl, participates in the Kinaalda, the traditional coming-of-age ceremony of her people.

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McKelvey, Celinda--Juvenile literature.


Navajo Indians--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies--Juvenile literature.
Kinaaldá (Navajo rite)--Juvenile literature.
Puberty rites--New Mexico--Bloomfield--Juvenile literature.
Kinaaldá (Navajo rite)
Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies.--Southwest, New


Literature.
Biographies.

E99.N3 / R597 1993

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