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2'''Evangeline Parsons Yazzie''' ({{circa}} 1952 – May 22, 2022) was a [[Navajo]] educator and author of the first textbook adopted by the [[State_school#United_States|U.S. public education system]] to teach the [[Navajo language]].
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4== Life ==
5Yazzie received a Master of Arts degree in Bilingual Multicultural Education and a Doctorate in Education from [[Northern Arizona University]] (NAU) where she taught [[Navajo language]] courses for 24 years until 2014. In 2007, Yazzie co-authored a textbook for teaching the Navajo language titled ''Diné Bizaad Bínáhoo’aah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language'' along with [[Peggy Speas|Margaret Speas]], a professor of linguistics at the [[University of Massachusetts]].<ref name="nau_20080827_navajotextbook"/><ref name="yazzie_2007_dinebizaad"/> In 2008, [[New Mexico]] adopted the textbook making itself the first U.S. state to officially use any text for teaching the Navajo language in its public school system.<ref name="nbc_20080731_nmadopt"/>
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7Following her retirement in 2014, Yazzie authored several novels about a fictional family's experience of the [[Long Walk of the Navajo]].<ref name="nho_20140401_novels"/><ref name="lpc_20181219_booksigning"/> Yazzie died on May 22, 2022 at age 69.<ref name="nho_20220531_obit"/>
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9==References==
10{{reflist|refs=
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12<ref name="lpc_20181219_booksigning">{{cite news
13 |last = Allen
14 |first = Krista
15 |title = Beloved Navajo author receives warm welcome at Page book signing
16 |date = Dec 19, 2018
17 |work = [[Lake Powell Chronicle]]
18 |url = https://lakepowellchronicle.com/article/beloved-navajo-author-receives-warm-welcome-at-page-book-signing
19 |access-date = Jan 25, 2023
20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190205045416/https://lakepowellchronicle.com/article/beloved-navajo-author-receives-warm-welcome-at-page-book-signing
21 |archive-date = Feb 5, 2019
22 |url-status = live
23}}</ref>
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25<ref name="nau_20080827_navajotextbook">{{cite web
26 |title = Navajo professor writes textbook to help save her Native language
27 |date = Aug 27, 2008
28 |work = NAU News
29 |url = http://news.nau.edu/navajo-professor-writes-textbook-to-help-save-her-native-language
30 |access-date = Jan 25, 2023
31 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171202064825/http://news.nau.edu/navajo-professor-writes-textbook-to-help-save-her-native-language
32 |archive-date = Dec 2, 2017
33 |url-status = live
34}}</ref>
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36<ref name="nbc_20080731_nmadopt">{{cite news
37 |title = New Mexico first state to adopt Navajo textbook
38 |date = Jul 31, 2008
39 |website = [[NBC News]]
40 |url = https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25943277
41 |access-date = Jan 25, 2003
42 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210226135831/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25943277
43 |archive-date = Feb 26, 2021
44 |url-status = live
45}}</ref>
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47<ref name="nho_20140401_novels">{{cite news
48 |last = Yerian
49 |first = Loretta
50 |title = Local author takes new look at the Navajo Long Walk
51 |date = Apr 1, 2014
52 |work = [[Navajo-Hopi Observer]]
53 |url = https://www.nhonews.com/news/2014/apr/01/local-author-takes-new-look-at-the-navajo-long-wa/
54 |access-date = Jan 25, 2023
55 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230125092230/https://www.nhonews.com/news/2014/apr/01/local-author-takes-new-look-at-the-navajo-long-wa/
56 |archive-date = Jan 25, 2023
57 |url-status = live
58}}</ref>
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60<ref name="nho_20220531_obit">{{cite news
61 |title = Diné author and scholar Dr. Evangeline Parsons Yazzie passes away at 69
62 |date = May 31, 2022
63 |work = [[Navajo-Hopi Observer]]
64 |url = https://www.nhonews.com/news/2022/may/31/dine-author-and-scholar-dr-evangeline-parsons-yazz/
65 |access-date = Jan 25, 2023
66 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220531165224/https://www.nhonews.com/news/2022/may/31/dine-author-and-scholar-dr-evangeline-parsons-yazz/
67 |archive-date = May 31, 2022
68 |url-status = live
69}}</ref>
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71<ref name="yazzie_2007_dinebizaad">{{cite book
72 |last1 = Parsons-Yazzie
73 |first1 = Evangeline
74 |last2 = Speas
75 |first2 = Margaret
76 |title = Diné Bizaad Bínáhoo’aah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language
77 |year = 2007
78 |publisher = [[Salina Bookshelf]]
79 |location = [[Flagstaff, Arizona]]
80 |oclc = 156845819
81}}</ref>
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83}}
84{{DEFAULTSORT:Yazzie. Evangeline Parsons}}
85{{Authority control}}
86[[Category:Native American women writers]]
87[[Category:21st-century Native American women]]
88[[Category:Native American women academics]]
89[[Category:21st-century Native Americans]]
90[[Category:Navajo people]]
91[[Category:Northern Arizona University alumni]]
92[[Category:20th-century American educators]]
93[[Category:20th-century American women educators]]
94[[Category:21st-century American educators]]
95[[Category:21st-century American women educators]]
96[[Category:21st-century American novelists]]
97[[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]]
98[[Category:21st-century American women writers]]
99[[Category:American textbook writers]]
100[[Category:Women textbook writers]]
101[[Category:Native American academics]]
102[[Category:Northern Arizona University faculty]]
103[[Category:1950s births]]
104[[Category:2022 deaths]]
105{{NorthAm-native-bio-stub}}