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    Little Man's Family pre-primer
    Little Man's Family pre-primer
    Little Man's Family pre-primer
    Ebook67 pages18 minutes

    Little Man's Family pre-primer

    By J. B. Enochs and Gerald Nailor

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Little Man's Family pre-primer - J. B. Enochs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Little Man's Family, by J. B. Enochs

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Little Man's Family

      pre-primer

      Author: J. B. Enochs

      Illustrator: Gerald Nailor

      Release Date: October 23, 2011 [EBook #37829]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE MAN'S FAMILY ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Fulvia Hughes and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      Variations in punctuation have been retained as they appear in the original publication. These include:

      inconsistent full-stops

      beginning of sentence starting with small letter

      DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

      Douglas McKay, Secretary

      BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

      Glenn L. Emmons, Commissioner

      BRANCH OF EDUCATION

      Hildegard Thompson, Chief

      Single Copy Price 20 cents

      Phoenix Indian School Print Shop

      Phoenix, Arizona

      Third Edition 5,000 copies—September 1953

      Little Man's family

      diné yázhí ba'áłchíní

      pre-primer

      by

      J. B. Enochs

      illustrated by

      Gerald Nailor

      BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

      FOREWORD

      This pre-primer is one of three little books based on material prepared by J. B. Enochs, who once taught in the sanitarium school at Kayenta. It deals entirely with typical life experiences among the Navaho, the largest Indian tribe in the United States, numbering approximately 65,000. Nine out of ten Navahos do not speak English, and the

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