Forbidden Talent

by Kathryn Wilder

Ashkii lives on the Navajo Reservation with his grandfather and grandmother. His favorite thing to do is make art but his grandfather tells him that it is forbidden for him to do so. Ashkii discovers some very important things about the Navajo Way.

Genres: Picture Books

27 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Kathryn Wilder's The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman's Heart, is out now from Bison Books, with a starred review from Booklist! Her previous memoir, Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West, won the 2022 Colorado Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and a Nautilus Book Award in Memoir. Additional awards include the Western Heritage Award, Ellen Meloy Desert Writer's Award, and others. Wilder holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She writes and cowboys in southwestern Colorado.

P.S. The Fractured Sky is not by this Kathryn Wilder.

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very interesting book about the ways of an Indian tribe versus the ways of today's society. This book displays an interesting view on how children may have to live with family tradition and school teachings. I would love to use this book to teach my children how many families have different traditions that they follow. I would then like them to write about some traditions that they follow in their families.