Talk:Witch (Navajo)

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[edit] No NDN Witches?

Please don't anyone come (as someone did on the Skin-walker entry) and say "there's no such thing as a witch in Native America," and say that a Yee naaldlooshii was "called a Navajo witch by outsiders." Really? Because most of the Navajos I went to school with believe in witches, and they call them witches (when speaking English), and if you look at what they're talking about, it's, um, yeah, pretty much witches. There's extensive literature on witch-beliefs among the Navajo, and witch is the only term for it.

Just in case someone does argue this same thing--just ask them why this little book was published by a community college run by the Navajo Nation.

Blue, Martha. (1988). The witch purge of 1878: oral and documentary history in the early Navajo reservation years. Tsaile: Navajo Community College Press.

Yeah, and if they don't believe this is a real book just have 'em look it up in:

Dine College Library catalog

http://library.dinecollege.edu

New Mexico Statue University Library catalog

http://libcat.nmsu.edu

It's like a mini-Salem witch trial right smack in the Navajo rez! Asdzani Bah 08:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)