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The goal of the Conversational Navajo Workbook is to introduce you to the basic structure of the Navajo language without a lot of linguistic jargon. This workbook is only the beginning to your study and mastery of the Navajo language. Patterns are introduced that present grammatical concepts in a topical format. The workbook is designed to be not only a course text, but also a self-study guide. There are two main sections. The first is a pronunciation guide designed to help you learn the phonology system of the Navajo alphabet. The attached audio CD pronunciation guide will help you to accurately pronounce Navajo words. The second section are twenty topical lessons that present new vocabulary and concepts. The other included CDs provide a pronunciation model for the vocabulary and practice questions. This guide is designed to be used in conjunction with the Conversational Navajo Dictionary, a pocket-sized quick reference guide.

With this indespensible guide in hand, travel the spectacular buttes and secret canyons of the Navajo and Hopi Nations in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Find your way through glorious Four Corners country and discover the rich cultures that flourish there.

"I've fallen under the spell of a fabulously infatuating mistress," writes Lee Morgan II in this searing memoir. "She" is Arizona's beautiful, dangerous borderland, and this is the shocking true story of Morgan's many years of combat there. A young Marine taught Morgan, aged 14, how to shoot a rifle. Then, he says, "my pseudo 'big brother' went on to infamously enter history books as the 'Texas Tower Sniper.'" Haunted by the Grim Reaper, today's Wild West is near anarchy. "To know the Mexican people is to love them," writes Morgan, but he hates with righteous rage the crime and corruption he's witnessed on both sides of the border. Discover why Morgan has been called the Serpico of the desert. Climb down with him into a "narco-tunnel" built by slave labor to smuggle drugs. Consider the huge social and political questions raised by Morgan's passionate exposé. "I've been personally shot, shrapneled, slashed, clubbed, burned, and nearly dragged to death," says the veteran lawman, who now lives with a Mexican bounty on his head. "It's been a hell of a ride." And it's a hell of a story.

Read the True Story that inspired Windtalkers, a major summer 2002 release that honors the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, directed by John Woo (Mission Impossible II) and starring Nicholas Cage and Adam Beach. Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, this newly revised edition of Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers describes how the U.S. Marine Corps recruited young Navajo warriors to create a secret code, using their native language that many of them had once been forbidden to speak.The Navajo Code Talkers played decisive roles in the Pacific Theater and helped turned the tide in the bloody battles for Bougainville, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Saipan, Guam, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima. Their unbreakable code helped save countless American lives and earned the Navajo Code Talkers the undying respect of their comrades in arms.