Navajo History Pt B Contemporary Navajo Affairs
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Author | : Ethelou Yazzie |
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Genre | : Navajo Indians |
ISBN | : 9780912586113 |
A history of the Navajos from their mythological and prehistoric beginnings to the present, written by and for the Navajo people.
Author | : Norman K. Eck |
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Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : Norman K. Eck |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Describes contemporary Navajo affairs and how they have been influenced by the federal and Tribal governments.
Author | : Peter Iverson |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2002-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826327168 |
This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive archival research, traditional accounts, interviews, historic and contemporary photographs, and firsthand observation, it provides a detailed, up-to-date portrait of the Diné past and present that will be essential for scholars, students, and interested general readers, both Navajo and non-Navajo. As Iverson points out, Navajo identity is rooted in the land bordered by the four sacred mountains. At the same time, the Navajos have always incorporated new elements, new peoples, and new ways of doing things. The author explains how the Diné remember past promises, recall past sacrifices, and continue to build upon past achievements to construct and sustain North America's largest native community. Provided is a concise and provocative analysis of Navajo origins and their relations with the Spanish, with other Indian communities, and with the first Anglo-Americans in the Southwest. Following an insightful account of the traumatic Long Walk era and of key developments following the return from exile at Fort Sumner, the author considers the major themes and events of the twentieth century, including political leadership, livestock reduction, the Code Talkers, schools, health care, government, economic development, the arts, and athletics. Monty Roessel (Navajo), an outstanding photographer, is Executive Director of the Rough Rock Community School. He has written and provided photographs for award-winning books for young people.
Author | : David E. Wilkins |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2013-10-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442226692 |
Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience, political developments of the last decade are discussed and analyzed comprehensively, and with as much accessibility as thoroughness and detail.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Navajo Indian Reservation |
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Author | : Colleen O'Neill |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2005-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700618945 |
The Dine have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline. Although they lost a great deal with the waning of their sheep-centered economy, Colleen O'Neill argues that Navajo culture persisted. O'Neill's book challenges the conventional notion that the introduction of market capitalism necessarily leads to the destruction of native cultural values. She shows instead that contact with new markets provided the Navajos with ways to diversify their household-based survival strategies. Through adapting to new kinds of work, Navajos actually participated in the "reworking of modernity" in their region, weaving an alternate, culturally specific history of capitalist development. O'Neill chronicles a history of Navajo labor that illuminates how cultural practices and values influenced what it meant to work for wages or to produce commodities for the marketplace. Through accounts of Navajo coal miners, weavers, and those who left the reservation in search of wage work, she explores the tension between making a living the Navajo way and "working elsewhere." Focusing on the period between the 1930s and the early 1970s-a time when Navajos saw a dramatic transformation of their economy—O'Neill shows that Navajo cultural values were flexible enough to accommodate economic change. She also examines the development of a Navajo working class after 1950, when corporate development of Navajo mineral resources created new sources of wage work and allowed former migrant workers to remain on the reservation. Focusing on the household rather than the workplace, O'Neill shows how the Navajo home serves as a site of cultural negotiation and a source for affirming identity. Her depiction of weaving particularly demonstrates the role of women as cultural arbitrators, providing mothers with cultural power that kept them at the center of what constituted "Navajo-ness." Ultimately, Working the Navajo Way offers a new way to think about Navajo history, shows the essential resilience of Navajo lifeways, and argues for a more dynamic understanding of Native American culture overall.
Author | : Peter Iverson |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Economics |
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Issues facing the Navajo reservation from 1920-1980.
Author | : United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Maureen Trudelle Schwarz |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806133102 |
"I think what is always really amazing to me is that Navajo are never amazed by anything that happens. Because it is like in a lot of our stories they are already there."--Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller During the final decade of the twentieth century, Navajo people had to confront a number of challenges, from unexplained illness, the effects of uranium mining, and problem drinking to threats to their land rights and spirituality. Yet no matter how alarming these issues, Navajo people made sense of them by drawing guidance from what they regarded as their charter for life, their origin stories. Through extensive interviews, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz allows Navajo to speak for themselves on the ways they find to respond to crises and chronic issues. In capturing what Navajo say and think about themselves, Schwarz presents this southwestern people's perceptions, values, and sense of place in the world.