Sunday surprise 1: next of kin on Netflix
[ by Charles Cameron — a trifling coincidence on Netfix and three recommended books ]
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Trevor Howard (from Margate, Kent) played Windwalker, “a Cheyenne warrior returning from the dead to defend his family,” in the 1980 film of the same name, whereas Adam Beach (of the Saulteaux, not of the Dine, but arguably closer) played the Navajo Ben Yazzie in the 2002 film, Windtalkers:
I mention these facts becauze Netflix offered me these two flix side by side today, and it struck me that the Navaho Code Talkers were among the ones who truly walked their talk.
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In my library, unpacked yesterday and gto be shelved today, a treasure of a book..
valued for its exposition of ‘Sa’ah naaghéi, Bik’eh hózhó — walking in beauty, in old age wandering..
and hoped for, but likely sold long since to pay the rent, one of the loveliest books I have ever had the privilege to hold & behold..
