Navaho Neighbors

by Franc Johnson Newcomb

Book by Newcomb, Franc Johnson

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1966

Reviews

[LibraryLady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loaned to me by a library patron, I learned so much about Franc Newcomb and her husband who started a Trading Post on a Navajo reservation. Fascinating look at this culture and it's acceptance of this couple.

[Jennifer Layte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Franc Johnson Newcomb is my great great aunt, and I’ve been aware of her and this book since childhood; am glad finally to have read it. I was a bit nervous, honestly, to see how this white woman living among Navajo people—and evidently respected by them—would “translate” into a 2020’s mindset, but overall, even accounting for the “woman of her time” arguments in a couple of instances, she shows up kind of okay—and in some cases probably ahead of her time. The stories were fascinating in any case, and well told.