Author(s): Kazuo Mori
A group of enterprising university officials dreamed of creating an academic program designed to meet the educational and career needs of Navajo Indian students. The fantasy turned into a reality property was bought, educational work force were employed, new structures were raised, and gear and supplies were obtained and the new school was opened. Tragically, regardless of the arrangements and arranging of the school authorities, one significant component was absent: practically no Navajo understudies were enlisted at the school. Later broad exploration, the justification behind the absence of Navajo understudies at the school became clear a component of the Navajo culture called a "skinwalker." In the customary Navajo culture, a skinwalker is a little evil spirit that tunnels underneath an ancestral part's skin and bothers that individual. Ancestral individuals preceding possessing another home or school - - the ancestral sacred man should favor the structure and drive out the skinwalkers. Infringement of this customary social conviction brings about the Navajo's conviction that the evil spirits will possess the abode and torture any individual who enters that structure. To put it plainly, on the grounds that a significant social contrast between the Navajo understudies and understudies from other social foundations had been neglected, a multimillion dollar instructive item was for all intents and purposes unused by the designated understudies