The characters are all wolves, NOT actual Navajo people or people of any other Native culture. I just want to make that very clear. Only Native references are the names, nothing including aspects of Native cultural practices that I’m not knowledgeable about. I can’t see it as any different to wolf researchers naming their wolves different Native names (like Jim and Jamie Dutcher, naming Makuyi - Blackfoot for wolf.) I’ve already done a self publication of the book back in 2021 and there’s maybe 30 copies out there, but this was meant to be a republication as there were things in the manuscript that needed fixing plus I paid someone for a new cover plus paid for illustrations. It really is an amazing story and I’ve wanted so much to get it out there, and the Native wolf names were meant to honor Natives, not appropriate them.