Griffin-Pierce, Trudy, Native Peoples of the Southwest, University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

This book approaches the southwestern Indian cultures
in terms of their cultural vitality and evolution.
There are detailed sections on each culture's language,
territory, history, material culture, social organization,
political organization, religion, and
worldview.

Locke, Raymond Friday, Book of the Navajo, 5th ed., Holloway House, 1992.

This is a comprehensive and readable account of
Navajo history and culture.

Young, Robert W., A Political History of the Navajo Tribe,

Navajo Community College Press, 1978, pp. 15-52.
The first chapter contains a concise summary of
Navajo history and culture.