Issued by the Navajo Tribe's Office of Tourism in Window Rock, this friendly travel guide was written to help visiting families explore the Navajo Nation and the Hopi mesas with respect and real understanding rather than as drive-through tourists. Bonnie Brown and Carol D. Bracken organize the vast reservation by region, with detailed touring maps, children's pages, and a "Welcome to Indian Country" orientation that gently coaches outsiders on etiquette and the deep ties between land and water in an arid homeland.
What sets it apart is its authorship under tribal auspices: the back cover closes with lines from the Navajo Beauty Way chant, "With beauty before me I walk," set against a photograph of Rainbow Bridge. Tribally produced guidebooks like this seldom survive in collectible condition and offer a grounded, community-sanctioned view of the Four Corners country. A clean documented copy is a small but genuine piece of Navajo Nation publishing history.
Documented copy
A reservation travel guide from the Navajo Tribe Office of Tourism; no copyright page was photographed. This is a Navajo Tribe Office of Tourism book; see how Navajo Tribe Office of Tourism states its first printings.
| Author | Bonnie Brown and Carol D. Bracken |
| Publisher | Navajo Tribe Office of Tourism |
| Edition | Documented copy |
| Condition | Softcover, light wear. |
| Topic | Navajo-Hopi reservation travel guide |
Photographs © New Mexico Literacy Project, licensed CC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution. This is an identification and provenance record of a real donation; no appraisal or valuation is offered.
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