Evangeline Parsons Yazzie
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie was a Navajo educator and author of the first textbook adopted by the U.S. public education system to teach the Navajo language.
Life
Yazzie received a Master of Arts degree in Bilingual Multicultural Education and a Doctorate in Education from Northern Arizona University where she taught Navajo language courses for 24 years until 2014. In 2007, Yazzie co-authored a textbook for teaching the Navajo language titled Diné Bizaad Bínáhooʼaah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language along with Margaret Speas, a professor of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts. In 2008, New Mexico adopted the textbook making itself the first U.S. state to officially use any text for teaching the Navajo language in its public school system.Following her retirement in 2014, Yazzie authored several novels about a fictional family's experience of the Long Walk of the Navajo. Yazzie died on May 22, 2022, at age 69.
Non-Fiction
Diné Bizaad Bínáhooʼaah : Rediscovering The Navajo Language,,.- * Diné Bizaad Bínáhooʼaah Audio Set 1 A Study for Reasons for Navajo Language Attrition as Perceived by Navajo Speaking Parents,.
Her Land, Her Love series
A fictional account of the Long Walk of the Navajo.- Her Land, Her Love : Nínááníbaaʼ : the woman warrior who came home once again,,
- Her Enemy Her Love : Dééd Yázhi : Little Girl Warrior Who Came Home,,
- Her Captive Her Love : Dzánibaʼ : Young woman warrior,,
- Their Land, Their Love : The Return Home,,