Books with title The turquoise mask

The Turquoise Table,through a simple act of redefining hospitality, shows how you can connecta neighborhood, build a community, and create deep connection with those around you. Are you consumed with a busy life but unsure how to slow down? Do you desire connection within your community and think, “That’s lovely, but I don’t have time for that” or “I can’t create that”? What if there was another way through it all, a way to find those moments of peace and to create a time for honest, comfortable connection? What if you could find true community in your own front yard? Kristin Schell unfolds her story of discovering that hospitality can be simple and creates community through the concept of The Turquoise Table. Stress-free ideas, simple tips, and funny and heartwarming stories make it a breeze to create your own Turquoise Table community right in your front yard. Give yourself a chance to make the meaningful connections, to relax and find peace, and to create community in your own front yard—all starting with a single, simple act.

The Turquoise Horse is the story of a young Navajo girl, Lisa Todachine, who discovers she is a poet. Her father, a silversmith, teaches her the importance of wisdom and how it is passed down the generations. Lisa comes to realize that the spoken poetry of her people imparts values that can be uniquely shared in this special way. Through the medium of silversmithing her father tells how he learned what was sacred when he was young and wondering about the nature of artistic pursuit. In school Lisa learns that sharing one's experience with others can be a way to learn about oneself. It is personal discovery combined with helping classmates to know who she is. In addition to learning in school, Lisa also begins to trust her unusual, personal and powerful, dream of The Turquoise Horse. When she realizes that the horse dream should be shared in the old way, as story or legend, she allows herself to believe in her ability to tell a story on her own. With the help of a folksinger who is invited into her classroom, Lisa learns that words are like the jewelry her father makes from turquoise and silver. In the end Lisa decides that she will become a poet whose words will be printed in books. Rather than turning away from Navajo tradition she chooses to follow it in her own way using poetry to tell stories.

This title introduces young readers to turquoise, the gemstone that's name is French for "Turkish"! Learn how turquoise is formed and where it is found. Historic and modern mining methods are detailed. The use of turquoise as a gemstone is examined including different colors and cuts. See how artisans and lapidaries create beautiful and useful jewelry with this mineral. Finally, a list of tools and tips will set young rock hounds up to unearth their own treasures. Glossary words in bold, an index, and phonetic spellings for those hard-to-pronounce geologic terms enhance and supplement the text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

These stories were selected by Gerald Hausman over a thirty-year stretch of listening and telling Navajo folktales around the country. Some of these were first aired on Navajo radio station KTNN and received tribal approval in 1988. Gerald's published in-print version of the turquoise horse legend has reached more than a half-million readers and listeners as part of The Junior Great Books Foundation program for learning. All of the stories contained here are little flashes of insight into the human mind as well as native thinking. The sound effects are by jazz musician Ray Griffin who also collected the ambient sounds that enhance the music and lend a naturalistic flavor to the storytelling. Here collected, the stories, poems, chants and prayers that Gerald Hausman learned from his American Indian friends during the 1960s and through the 1990s when he completed his translations of these great creation tales, equal in power to the stories in Genesis. The musical compositions by Ray Griffin, a veteran of the Santa Fe scene, are unique in that they merge sound effects, bird songs, spadefoot toads, and noises of the desert at night while Gerald Hausman is telling stories. The result is a Navajo night, full of healing and happiness, and mystery.