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Trickster s Way Volume 1 | Issue 2 Article 2 4-1-2002 Listening to the Trickster voice in Walter Dyks Navajo Ethonogrphy Son of Old Man Hat Susan Brill de R amirez Follow this and additional works at : /trickstersway Recommended Citation Brill de R amirez, Susan (2002) Listening to the Trickster voice in alter Dyks Navajo Ethonogrphy Son of Old Man Hat, Tricksters Way : Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 2. Available at : /trickstersway/vol1/iss2/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Trickster s ay by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please contact jcostanz@. Brill de Ramirez: Listening to the Trickster voice in Walter Dyks Navajo Ethonogrp Listening to the Trickster Voice in Walter Dyk’s Navajo Ethnography Son of Old Man Hat Susan B. Brill de Ramírez Associate Professor of English Bradley University Left Handed is the Navajo storyteller behind and within the ethnographically constructed text Son of Old Man Hat. However, he is not an autobiographer relating his own self-referential life history. Left Handed is a turn of the century (19th/20th C.E.) Navajo man who speaks Navajo, not English. His world view is a Navajo informed world view, not the Euroamerican perspective of those who might privilege literary romanticizations of the self. Perhaps the trickster Coyote might demonstrate such self-privileging, but then Coyote is hardly the example most