The Stone Cutter & The Navajo Maiden, Tse Yitsidi doo Ch'ikeeh Bitsedaashjee Race Discrimination Catching Dreams

Catching Dreams

the experiences of girls and women of their childhood communities

This non-fiction book is the powerful and moving memoir from Cree residential school survivor

Rick Monture has captured these traditions as they are reflected in worldview

while another explains the origins of Casino Rama

The Stone Cutter & The Navajo Maiden, Tse Yitsidi doo Ch'ikeeh Bitsedaashjee Race Discrimination Catching DreamsThe Stone Cutter and the Navajo Maiden, Tse Yitsidi doo Ch'ikeeh Bitsedaashjee is a bilingual children's picture book that explains the importance of the Navajo metate or grinding stone. A young Navajo girl lives with her father after the death of her mother and takes over the roll of grinding the corn to make flour. One day she trips and falls while carrying the metate or grinding stone and it shatters. To the Navajo, this grinding stone is an