A Navajo family welcomes a new baby into the family with love and ceremony, eagerly waiting for that first special laugh. Includes brief description of birth customs in different cultures.
When a young girl attends the wedding of her best friend's cousin, she learns many things about the customs of the Navajo Indians living in the American Southwest.
Tony saves all his money to buy the beautiful saddle at the tradng post but when his grandmother becomes ill after pawning her valuable bracelet to help Tony's uncle, Tony is faced with a difficult decision.
Although excited to visit her grandparents on the Navajo reservation, Shundeen disobeys their orders and ventures into the canyons in order to have exciting stories to tell her non-Navajo classmates, but is rescued with the help of her friend sheep.
As Jóhonaa'éí, the sun, slowly rises, his gentle light and warmth wake the inhabitants of the desert, including a burrow of rabbits, a sleepy coyote, and, perhaps, a family living in a hogan.
Explaining a solar eclipse, a Navajo tells his grandson that when the sun dies the children of Mother Earth are called from the four directions to repaint the universe in all the colors of the rainbow.