Ann Nolan Clark

Name: The Little Navajo Herder
Author: Ann Nolan Clark

The Little Navajo Herder

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“The Little Navajo Herder”, is a work by Ann Nolan Clark. It explores elements such as Navaho, Hoke and artist.

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ However, the popularity of Little Herder was not limited to the child readers of her own tribe. She has found her way into the hearts of Indian children throughout the nation. The universality of her appeal is indicated by increasing interest in her story by non-Indian children in home and school. Selections from her books have found their way into dozens of anthologies. This popularity with those who read only English has dictated this single volume edition in English. Again the delightful drawings by Hoke Denetsosie, a full-blood Navajo artist, are used. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ We walk
till the day is done,
till the sun goes
and the stars
are almost ready
to come.
We walk across the sand.
We walk to the water hole
when day is at the middle.
We walk to the night corral
when day is at the close,
the sheep,
my mother
and my mother's Little Herder.
Before the hogan fire,
when night has come,
my father sings,
my mother whispers,
"Come sit beside me
Little Herder."
I like that name.
From now till always
I want to be
my mother's Little Herder.
37 IN WINTER
38
IN WINTER
39 SNOW
My mother's land is white with snow. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ Hoke has had full freedom in the solution of these problems, often preparing several sketches for a single episode, and then selecting between them for the final drawing. Some of the drawings have been frankly experimental—showing a snow scene in the simple black and white technique developed by Hoke, for example; or distinguishing between night and day. The style is the artist's own, and is neither the flat stylized drawing of many Pueblo artists, nor the minutely shaded drawing of the white man. The artist was chosen because he possesses a sure skill and inquiring mind. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ Little Navajo Herder bids fair to find a permanent place in children's literature, as has Mrs. Clark's earlier volume on Pueblo life—"In My Mother's House." This book is illustrated by a Pueblo artist, Velerio Herrera, and is published by Viking Press.
Other Indian stories by Mrs. Clark have been published by the Indian Service for use in Indian schools. A complete list may be obtained from Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ When Hoke was invited to prepare the illustrations for these stories, he was given the manuscripts to read, and then talked over with the author the things she had in mind in writing the various episodes of the story. By the variety of the story, many problems of illustration were encountered which an artist might avoid for many years if simply drawing in response to his own interest. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ I sleep.
149 THE ARTIST The artist, Hoke Denetsosie, is a full-blood Navaho boy of twenty years, born and raised near Tuba City in the western part of the reservation. He was a student at the Tuba school, and transferred to Phoenix Indian School for high school work. Hoke has been drawing for a number of years, during which time he has had little instruction. He finds the landscape of his native country a source of never-tiring interest. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ All the Indian men
take off their concho belts
and rings and turquoise
and bowguards and blankets.
They throw them on the ground
to make a pile of things
as much as a hundred dollars.
They say,
"We will run
to that place
and back."
They mount their horses.
They line them up.
One man stands by
the pool of things
that are being bet
against the hundred dollars.
With another man
my father bets his bowguard
against a concho belt
on that horse
my uncle knows.
The men choose a flat place
to run the race.
68 THE RACE
The starter takes his hat off. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ Goats lead the sheep.
They go first into everything.
That is their way.
They are not afraid.
My uncle says in the English,
"Goats are tough."
Goats eat the grass too far down.
They eat the trees too far up. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ The domestic animals raised by the Navaho had to be shown in a proper setting just as one sees them on the reservation. The sheep could not be shown grazing in a pasture, nor the horses in a stable, because such things are not Navaho. ”

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Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Navajo Herder

“ I feel little
standing here
when the wind
and the horses
run by.
11 THE SHEEP
Of all the kinds of sheep,
Navaho sheep
give the best wool
for weaving.
My mother says
that is why
they are Navaho sheep,
because they know best
the needs of The People.
12 THE GOATS
Goats have long whiskers. ”

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