Emily Benedek writes of this quest in her book, Beyond the Four Corners of the World. Benedek does not write the book solely for the purpose of informing others about this ongoing conflict, but because she fears that soon, people may not know the traditional ways of the Navajo Indians. Ella Bedonie, a Navajo whose life encompasses the two worlds, Anglo and Indian, believes that her grandchildren will never know the "old ways". Furthermore, in her life, just as those of many other Navajos, Ella is struggling between an Anglo culture and her beloved, sacred Navajo ways.

"Veni, vidi, vici," says Ella's husband, Dennis in response to the white law enforcement officers who have told his people to move from their land (xii). To the Navajo Indians, the land is sacred and everything that is on the land is sacred. Benedek tells the reader, a "harmonious, interactive relation...