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   1 {{Short description|Navajo educator and author (1952–2022)}}
   2 {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}}
   3 '''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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   5 == Life ==
   6 Yazzie 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 Bínáhooʼaah: 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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   8 Following 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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  10 ==Bibliography==
  11 ===Non-Fiction===
  12 * ''[[Diné Bizaad Bínáhooʼaah : Rediscovering The Navajo Language]]'' (2007), {{ISBN|9781893354739}}, {{OCLC|156845819}}.
  13 ** ''[[Diné Bizaad Bínáhooʼaah Audio Set 1]]'' {{ISBN|9781893354760}}
  14 * ''A Study for Reasons for Navajo Language Attrition as Perceived by Navajo Speaking Parents'' (1995), {{OCLC|77536872}}.
  15
  16 ===Her Land, Her Love series===
  17 A fictional account of the [[Long Walk of the Navajo]].
  18
  19 # ''Her Land, Her Love : Nínááníbaaʼ : the woman warrior who came home once again'' (2014), {{ISBN|9781893354968}}, {{OCLC|879377793}}
  20 # ''Her Enemy Her Love : Dééd Yázhi : Little Girl Warrior Who Came Home'' (2016), {{ISBN|9781893354289}}, {{OCLC|927119745}}
  21 # ''Her Captive Her Love : Dzánibaʼ : Young woman warrior'' (2018), {{ISBN|9781893354289}}, {{OCLC|927119745}}
  22 # ''Their Land, Their Love : The Return Home'' (2019), {{ISBN|9781893354326}}, {{OCLC|1078778700}}
  23
  24 ===Other Fiction===
  25 * ''Dzání Yázhí Naazbaaʼ : Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home : a story of the Navajo Long Walk'' (2005), {{ISBN|9781893354555}}, {{OCLC|57201776}}
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  29 ==References==
  30 {{reflist|refs=
  31
  32 <ref name="lpc_20181219_booksigning">{{cite news
  33  |last         = Allen
  34  |first        = Krista
  35  |title        = Beloved Navajo author receives warm welcome at Page book signing
  36  |date         = Dec 19, 2018
  37  |work         = [[Lake Powell Chronicle]]
  38  |url          = https://lakepowellchronicle.com/article/beloved-navajo-author-receives-warm-welcome-at-page-book-signing
  39  |access-date  = Jan 25, 2023
  40  |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190205045416/https://lakepowellchronicle.com/article/beloved-navajo-author-receives-warm-welcome-at-page-book-signing
  41  |archive-date = Feb 5, 2019
  42  |url-status   = live
  43 }}</ref>
  44
  45 <ref name="nau_20080827_navajotextbook">{{cite web
  46  |title        = Navajo professor writes textbook to help save her Native language
  47  |date         = Aug 27, 2008
  48  |work         = NAU News
  49  |url          = http://news.nau.edu/navajo-professor-writes-textbook-to-help-save-her-native-language
  50  |access-date  = Jan 25, 2023
  51  |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20171202064825/http://news.nau.edu/navajo-professor-writes-textbook-to-help-save-her-native-language
  52  |archive-date = Dec 2, 2017
  53  |url-status   = live
  54 }}</ref>
  55
  56 <ref name="nbc_20080731_nmadopt">{{cite news
  57  |title        = New Mexico first state to adopt Navajo textbook
  58  |date         = Jul 31, 2008
  59  |website      = [[NBC News]]
  60  |url          = https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25943277
  61  |access-date  = Jan 25, 2003
  62  |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20210226135831/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25943277
  63  |archive-date = Feb 26, 2021
  64  |url-status   = live
  65 }}</ref>
  66
  67 <ref name="nho_20140401_novels">{{cite news
  68  |last         = Yerian
  69  |first        = Loretta
  70  |title        = Local author takes new look at the Navajo Long Walk
  71  |date         = Apr 1, 2014
  72  |work         = [[Navajo-Hopi Observer]]
  73  |url          = https://www.nhonews.com/news/2014/apr/01/local-author-takes-new-look-at-the-navajo-long-wa/
  74  |access-date  = Jan 25, 2023
  75  |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/
  76  |archive-date = Jan 25, 2023
  77  |url-status   = live
  78 }}</ref>
  79
  80 <ref name="nho_20220531_obit">{{cite news
  81  |title        = Diné author and scholar Dr. Evangeline Parsons Yazzie passes away at 69
  82  |date         = May 31, 2022
  83  |work         = [[Navajo-Hopi Observer]]
  84  |url          = https://www.nhonews.com/news/2022/may/31/dine-author-and-scholar-dr-evangeline-parsons-yazz/
  85  |access-date  = Jan 25, 2023
  86  |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20220531165224/https://www.nhonews.com/news/2022/may/31/dine-author-and-scholar-dr-evangeline-parsons-yazz/
  87  |archive-date = May 31, 2022
  88  |url-status   = live
  89 }}</ref>
  90
  91 <ref name="yazzie_2007_dinebizaad">{{cite book
  92  |last1        = Parsons-Yazzie
  93  |first1       = Evangeline
  94  |last2        = Speas
  95  |first2       = Margaret
  96  |title        = Diné Bizaad Bínáhooʼaah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language
  97  |year         = 2007
  98  |publisher    = [[Salina Bookshelf]]
  99  |location     = [[Flagstaff, Arizona]]
 100  |oclc         = 156845819
 101 }}</ref>
 102
 103 }}
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 105 {{Authority control}}
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 107 {{DEFAULTSORT:Yazzie. Evangeline Parsons}}
 108 [[Category:1950s births]]
 109 [[Category:2022 deaths]]
 110 [[Category:20th-century American educators]]
 111 [[Category:20th-century American women educators]]
 112 [[Category:21st-century American educators]]
 113 [[Category:21st-century American women educators]]
 114 [[Category:21st-century American novelists]]
 115 [[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]]
 116 [[Category:21st-century American women writers]]
 117 [[Category:21st-century Native American writers]]
 118 [[Category:21st-century Native American women]]
 119 [[Category:American textbook writers]]
 120 [[Category:Native American academics]]
 121 [[Category:Native American women academics]]
 122 [[Category:Navajo women writers]]
 123 [[Category:Navajo writers]]
 124 [[Category:Northern Arizona University alumni]]
 125 [[Category:Northern Arizona University faculty]]
 126 [[Category:American women textbook writers]]
 127 {{NorthAm-native-bio-stub}}