Salina Bookshelf is a publishing company based in
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Founded in 1994 by teenagers Eric and Kenneth Lockard, non-native but fluent in the
Navajo language
Navajo or Navaho (; Navajo: or ) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America. Navajo is spoken primarily in the Southwestern United Stat ...
due to growing up among the
Navajo, the company specializes in Navajo-language books, mostly for children and teenagers, and is the only Navajo-language publisher in the United States.
Among its publications are a bilingual edition of the children's book ''Who wants to be a prairie dog?'' in English and Navajo, and ''Diné Bizaad Bínáhooʼaah'', a Navajo language textbook that was officially adopted by the state of
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
in 2008.
Salina Bookshelf currently has six full-time employees and three translators.
References
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Book publishing companies of the United States
Navajo language
Flagstaff, Arizona
1994 establishments in Arizona