Eagle Boy: A traditional Navajo Legend
Retold by: Gerald Hausman
Illustrators: Cara and Barry Moser
Publisher: Harper Collin/ 1996
Genre: Picture Book, Traditional Story, Legend
Themes: Native Americans, Navajo, legends, healing ceremony, Eagles, Navajo beliefs
Main Characters: Eagle Boy
Secondary Characters: Eagle Chief, Father Eagle, Mother Eagle
Summary:
This traditional story from the Navajos tells of how their medicine men learned their ways. Eagles were revered as godlike and sacred. Eagle Boy flew with the eagles and learned the ways of healing during this journey. When Eagle Boy he returned he taught his people the dance and songs and became the medicine man. An Eagle Way healed the many ailments of men’s ways. Eagle Boy was the master of these ways. The pictures are actually painted from colored sand of the desert to bring a patient of illness closer to the Eagle Way and to help ease their pain and heal them. This story is a great example of Traditional Literature and a view into the culture of the Navajo. This would be great for a multicultural project mixed with reading elements.
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