'Cowgirl Days, Frybread Nights' - A Fun Read

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Book Review
By Gaye Brown de Alvarez
Staff Writer
The Independent, Gallup N.M.
Saturday, Dec. 11th, 2010, page 25

WINDOW ROCK – When newspaper reporter Kathy Helms decided to write a book about her experiences in Navajoland, she knew her efforts would include uranium, water and some of the social ills prevalent in one of the only places left in the U.S. that still can be considered a third-world country.

You can't leave it out.

But you can make it humorous and fun to read, and that is what Helms did in her book “Cowgirl Days, Frybread Nights,” Kathy L. Helms, 2010, Blurb Inc.

“You always hear about 'freedom of the press,'” Helms writes in her preface. “What they don't tell you is that the freedom usually ends when you step on the all-powerful toes of politicians, Big Business, Big Brother or advertisers.”

Helms studied journalism at East Tennessee State University, against her mother's wishes. Her mother called journalism “witchcraft.”

She combines witchcraft with her extensive knowledge of uranium mining in the book, where she tells the reader about the subjects she has covered for the Independent. She has been a reporter, based in Tuba City and Fort Defiance for longer than a decade and is well-known for her stories on uranium, water, and Navajo issues. These issues have changed over the years and she keeps on top of the change and throws into her book many of her flashes of insight, her dreams and her connection with Keanu Reeves.

Keanu Reeves?

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1. You Had Me at Uranium

Thanks for sharing this. I am always open to more SW-oriented material, NF or fiction. I put in a purchase request at the library based on your post.