Robert McPherson, through this oral history of Navajo women living in Monument Valley, provides a unique story of cultural understanding specific to the area. From personal experience and a shared heritage, these women explain their early struggles in life, religious beliefs and sacred teachings, daily activities of a traditional family, and later, battling against cultural loss. Today's rapidly changing world challenges these elders while enticing the young to forget what it means to be Diné. Here, these women share what they want the youth to know. I highly recommend this book to those who wish to learn about the past, understand the present, and consider the future.

This book is the first in a series of written publications accompanied by a digital application for tourists traveling through Southeastern Utah. Its purpose is to make available specific historical and cultural informations, not readily accessible without extensive research.

Travelers will be introduced to a fascinating history and a vanity of cultural teachings as they visit specific sites where it occurred. Come enjoy a memorable, TOTL learning experience from the comfort of your car. Teachings of the Land is at your fingertips.

Harry Goulding—"Tall Sheep" to the Navajos—ran a trading post in Monument Valley from 1925 to 1963. In this book the Gouldings, and those who knew them, tell the story of the trader and his wife among the Navajos and among the increasing number of Anglos, who came to Monument Valley as visitors and whom Harry introduced to the land and its people. Samuel Moon's commentary sets their words in the context of larger events.