The Rough Rock Medicinemen Training Program prepared this book to preserve Medicine practice of Navajo practitioners. Materials include Navajo transcriptions and English translations of lectures by Roger Hathale, a well known Medicineman. Written primarily for use by Navajo students at secondary and junior college levels, the book contains a full documentation of the Blessingway ceremony from the Navajo perspective, as well as some of the more famous and entertaining mythological stories of the Navajos. The stories describe the beginning of time; the emergence of gods and primal beings from the Lower World and their triumphs over monsters; the creations of sun, stars, mountains, plants, animals, and human beings; and the origins of hogans, sweat baths, games, ceremonies, and clan divisions. (SV)