My Life with Navajos on the Rez: An itinerant pianist living, working with, and loving Navajo people for thirteen years

I moved from California to the Four Corners area in Arizona to live and work with the Navajo people in the Navajo Nation. I was able to have a music ministry and help teachers, and i even taught a Spanish class to a group of juniors and seniors in high school at Immanuel Mission.I became an itinerant pianist, moving here and there, wherever one was needed. I played at different church denominations in various towns from Arizona to New Mexico to Utah and back for thirteen years.I mostly knew only Christian Navajos, but of course, i met nonbelievers, one or two medicine men, people of the traditional religion, and some Mormons.I also gave private piano and voice lessons now and then while learning to read the Dineh (the real Navajo name) language. I never could converse, but i could read and sing any hymn in Dineh.I met and had many fine friends, with many good and some bad experiences.