Melissa Marie Denetdale

Secret Looms in the Rug Confessions of a Navajo Contemporary Warrior Melissa Marie Denetdale

A seventh generation-rooted Navajo warrior, Melissa, learns how to read the White people world when she leaves the Navajo Reservation. Through a series of events of childhood, adulthood, and current college life, she has learned that there is one question that we all should be asking. "Would my ancestors be proud of me?" This is a must-read of a modern Navajo warrior of the 21st century. This modern world places modern battles in front of her, some of which, she and other Navajo women can't avoid, and others she became a pawn to. Through it all she finds more than her strength, she finds exactly where she's supposed be. She finds what the meaning of life is to a Navajo woman and more so of a modern Navajo warrior.