Meditations With the Navajo: Prayer-Songs and Stories of Healing and Harmony

by Gerald Hausman, Richard Erdoes

Stories and meditations that have been handed down for generations reveal a world that thrives on harmony and balance, and a belief that the most important point on the circle that has no beginning or end is where we stand at the moment.

Genres: Spirituality

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 1987

About the author

Gerald Andrews Hausman is a storyteller and award-winning author of books about Native America, animals, mythology, and West Indian culture. Hausman comes from a long line of storytellers and educators, and has published over seventy books for both children and adults.

Reviews

[Cuchillo Lope · Rating 2 out of 5]

When you’re Native people will make a lot of assumptions about you and sometimes give you odd gifts. This book is one of those assumptive gifts. A woman I worked with long ago gave it to me because it was a Navajo book and hey, I am Navajo! Match made! I finally got around to reading it and it makes sense why she had it.
This is such a “white persons” book about Navajos. It really leans into the mystical side of Native Americans and the author is definitely a guy who has just hung out with Navajos and decided to write not very good book on us.
While there is some interesting little tidbits. It’s hard not to see how this guy really tries to come off as some expert just because he spent some time on the Rez. It’s a bit annoying and found myself rolling my eyes quite a few times.
This is definitely a book you find in a new age shop that you would get for the person in your life who smudges and uses crystals.

[Chelsea Pretz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not sure what I think of this book for story stories. I feel like this will be a book that I will listen to several times to get soak in the mediations. There are several, not every straight forward stories, but some every beautiful stories that paint old traditions into the present-day world. This is something I might update after more time and thought.