This is an intimate portrait of a familys decision to return to the Navajo reservation and reclaim its cultural identity. Stacia Spragg-Braude photographed and interviewed the Begay family over the course of a decade, providing a window on a culture not often seen by outsiders. Uplifting and moving, this book examines the spiritual healing that can take place when cultural identity is honored and restored. Here is a kind of eternal story, writes N. Scott Momaday in the afterword, the story of a people diminished to a family, at risk in a diminishing world. The old ways, the patterns of life that determined who and what they were, are being lost. Each new generation moves farther away from origin and meaning. And it is a story of return and restoration. (Hardcover, 200 pages, over 80 Black & White photos)