Dzanf Yazhf Naazbaa' Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home A Story Of The Navajo Long Walk

Dr. Evangeline Parsons Yazzie is an Associate Professor of Navajo at Northern Arizona University (NAU). She obtained an MA in Bilingual Multicultural Education and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University. Evangeline teaches her native language, mostly to Navajo students wanting to learn the language of their grandparents, and also to native speakers whose goal is to become literate in their own language. Evangeline is a Navajo woman, originally from the community of Hardrock on the Navajo Reservation. As a means of acknowledging and honoring her deceased parents for their gift of language, culture-knowledge, and Navajo teachings, Evangeline teaches and writes on the behalf of elders, and encourages others to honor their elders. From the summer of 1997 to late spring of 1999, Evangeline served as the Director of the Navajo Treaty Project. In 1999, the original Navajo-U.S. Treaty of 1868 was brought to NAU for the Navajo people to view and to learn about their past. The Navajo Treaty Project was designed to educate the general public about the Navajo people and their history. The bringing of the Treaty of 1868 back to the base of the San Francisco Peaks (the western sacred mountain of the Navajo) was memorable, in that it was the first time an Indian nation had asked for its own treaty to be placed on display.Parsons Yazzie, Evangeline is the author of 'Dzanf Yazhf Naazbaa' Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home A Story Of The Navajo Long Walk' with ISBN 9781893354555 and ISBN 1893354555.