David M. Brugge

Combining archeological evidence with Navajo cultural precepts, David M. Brugge has used the records of the oldest European institution in the American Southwest, the Catholic Church, to shed some light on the practices, causes, and effects of Spanish, Mexican, and American occupation on the Navajo Nation.

This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and it's effects on both tribes.