Danalee Buhler, author of Running From Coyote – A White Family among the Navajo June 17, 2009

According to Navajo myth if a coyote crosses your path you should turn back and not continue your journey or something terrible will happen. In Running From Coyote: A White Family among the Navajo the author spends a childhood dodging coyote. Set in Shiprock, New Mexico, the home of award-winning author Tony Hillerman’s protagonist Jim Chee, the author loves life with the Navajo.
“Running From Coyote is a remarkable book, a brilliant example of how a writer can use memories of her own childhood to introduce the world to another culture. Not only does Ms. Buhler provide a clear view of the Navajo people, my own favorite Native American culture, she also tells a wonderful story of a white girl growing up between the Sacred Mountains. If I were still teaching my University of New Mexico classes, I would have it on my required reading list.” —Tony Hillerman
Book signing at end of lecture