In the Sun's House

Download or read book In the Sun's House written by Kurt Caswell and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community—those on the reservation assumed he would come and go like so many teachers had before. But as Caswell attempts to bridge the gap between himself and those who surround him, he finds his calling as a teacher and develops a love for the rich landscape of New Mexico, and manages a hard-won truce between his failings and successes.