The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation oral history and her own and others'

and her own and others' stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization

vengeful way

he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale

despite the ravishes of colonialism

Megan Baker

The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation oral history and her own and others'This inspiring picture book tells the true story of a woman who brings desperately needed water to families on the Navajo reservation every day. Underneath the New Mexico sky, a Navajo boy named Cody finds that his family's barrels of water are empty. He checks the chicken coop nothing. He walks down the road to the horses' watering hole. Dry. Meanwhile, a few miles away, Darlene Arviso drives a school bus and picks up students for school. After