Medicine Man Jeff King, the First Navajo to be Buried in Arlington National Cemetery

Jeff King (Haska-zilth-e-yah, 1865-1964) lived in the Pinedale Chapter Area of the Navajo Reservation.

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Where the Two Came to Their Father - A War Ceremonial

In the fall of 1942 and the spring of 1943, Jeff King, a Navajo Medicine Man, gave to Maude Oakes (1903-1990), an American ethnologist, writer, and artist, the legend and the sand paintings of Where the Two Came to Their Father,  a War Ceremonial that was and is, performed over young men who have volunteered or been drafted into the service. World War II was upon us.

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