A terrible accident thrusts a Navajo youth into the Anglo world: In 1957 Gilbert John , named in Navajo Hashke\' Yitaaswod, is born in northwest New Mexico.
His energy is boundless, his thirst for freedom tempered by devotion to family a.
His youth straddles not only two cultures but two eras, for modernization comes late to the Navajo reservation.
His childhood encompasses extremes of freedom, responsibility and constraint far beyond the experience of typical American children.
A terrible accident thrusts a Navajo youth into the Anglo world: In 1957 Gilbert John , named in Navajo Hashke\' Yitaaswod, is born in northwest New Mexico