Turquoise Boy Book Report

I choose to write about Navajo friend bread because food is large aspect of any culture. In every culture there are special cuisines that holds some important meaning for that culture. For the Navajo that dish is friend bread because it is what keep them from starving to death. When they were forced off their land they went to a place where the soil was too poor to grow much of anything. Though because fried bread does not need many ingredients it was something that the Navajo could also make easily.

I decided to turn the information from Navajo: History and Culture into an encyclopedia page because the book had so much information. I wanted to really utilize all the information from the book and the best way I thought I could do this is …show more content…
Danny Blackgoat adventures were fascinating, but the book did not go in depth with his personality. I felt like the character Danny Blackgoat was a little flat and that creating the journal pages would make him more rounded. In the book it rarely described Danny’s feelings about the forced relocation of his people, so I explored these feelings in my fake journal pages.

Turquoise Boy is a Navajo legend about how the Navajo acquired horses and shows readers a lot about the Navajo’s religious beliefs. I took themes from the legend and turn them into poems. I did this because it allows us to see things in a new light. In the legend the gods are the main focus, but in my poems I mainly focus on the perspective of the Navajo people and their struggle.

I never hear much about how Native American are doing in today’s society. In school was never taught about Native American scientist, so based on the information provided in Navajo: History and Culture I created a human interest story. I did this to show the Navajo as a people who are still connected to their culture and are changing the world with their