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“I’ve been thinking a lot lately,” he said one day when we were walking home from the bus stop. “About the ánt’įįhnii.”

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My mother was raised on the Navajo reservation by her grandfather (a Navajo medicine man) and would always tell me stories about her childhood. However, most fascinating to me were her stories of skinwalkers, which she was always very hesitant to talk about — let alone write about.

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There’s hardly any so who cares?

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“I was just outside, grooming the dogs. All of a sudden, the dogs started acting strange and submissive. They started kneeling down when I tried to brush them.”

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I had worked at the Grand Canyon in 2000, I was fired after a month because of drinking on the job. I had always felt like it was a failure in my life, even though, no one else in my life considered it a failure, in my heart I did.