Salina Bookshelf is a publishing company based in

Flagstaff, Arizona Flagstaff ( ) is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2019, the city's estimated population was 75,038. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has ...

. Founded in 1994 by teenagers Eric and Kenneth Lockard, non-native but fluent in the Navajo language due to growing up among the

Navajo The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ...

, 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 in 2008. Salina Bookshelf currently has six full-time employees and three translators.

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{{reflist Book publishing companies of the United States Navajo language Flagstaff, Arizona 1994 establishments in Arizona