His book is a deeply revealing

Author Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert brings a Hopi perspective to this history

Both individual and archetypal

and the immense power that dwarfs all of us

white settler colonialism

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing drum His book is a deeplyThe first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing. A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart. Dr. Alvord left a dusty reservation in New Mexico for Stanford University Medical School,