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| Finding Helen - A Navajo Miracle | 
 enlarge | Author: Rose W. Johnson-tsosie
Publisher: Bluewater Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 348216
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 156
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1934610232
Dewey Decimal Number: 929
EAN: 9781934610237
ASIN: 1934610232
Publication Date: April 16, 2008
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Product Description
The year was 1950...a terrified Navajo girl, only thirteen years old, travels to a small Hopi hospital to give birth to premature twins. With no formal education and unable to speak English, Helen unknowingly signs a paper by marking her "X" and thumbprint. She believes the hospital is asking for permission to leave her twin girls in their care until they are healthy enough to go home. When the young mother returns expecting to be reunited with her daughters, she finds that something has gone desperately wrong. Follow the miracle trail as destiny draws mother and daughter together again.
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An Amazing story and miracle August 7, 2008
I worked with Rose Johnson-Tsosie at EPRI. When I heard about her book I was eager to read it. I will be moving to New Mexico in a few years and am very interested in the culture of the Navajo People.
My heart ached for the young Helen when she discovered her babies were taken from her. What enormous relief & joy she must have felt when she learned her daughters had grown up to be beautiful, acommplished women.
This is a wonderful re-telling of the saga and I applaud Rose for telling it for all to read.
Pamela Eccles Rietz
Beautiful story of one woman's journey back to her heritage June 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great summer read!
Wow! What a moving story of a Navajo woman's 33 year journey back to her roots after being mistakenly adopted out in the 1950s. Written from the perspective of several key people in the story. The frightened 13 year old girl who travels to a small Hopi hospital to give birth to premature infant twins, the older Mormon couple who long for more children and then of course, the perspective of one of the twins (the author)growing up Navajo in an Anglo world.
This is a beautiful story that will be sure to tug at the heartstrings of every mother and anyone who loves an inspirational read about everyday miracles!
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