cover image Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navaho War Ceremonial

Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navaho War Ceremonial

Maud Oakes, Jeff King. Princeton University Press, $18.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-691-02069-3

First published in 1943, this volume records a five-day ceremony performed by Navaho medicine man Jeff King for the first Native American draftees in WW II. Oakes copies sand paintings created during the ritual and recounts a legend of two heroes undergoing rites of passage. (Jan.)no PW review