Navajo Trading

Navajo Trading

Author: Willow Roberts Powers

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780826323224

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This overview is the first to examine trading in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when changes in both Navajo and white cultures led to the investigation of trading practices by the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in the demise of most traditional trading posts.


Wide Ruins

Wide Ruins

Author: Sallie R. Wagner

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II.


Navajo Trader

Navajo Trader

Author: Gladwell Richardson

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1991-07-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780816512621

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Gladwell "Toney" Richardson came from a long line of Indian traders and published nearly three hundred western novels under pseudonyms like "Maurice Kildare." His forty years of managing trading posts on the Navajo Reservation are now recalled in this colorful memoir.


Along Navajo Trails

Along Navajo Trails

Author: Will Evans

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2005-04-15

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1457174898

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Will Evans's writings should find a special niche in the small but significant body of literature from and about traders to the Navajos. Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Probably more than most of his fellow traders, he had a strong interest in Navajo culture. The effort he made to record and share what he learned certainly was unusual. He published in the Farmington and New Mexico newspapers and other periodicals, compiling many of his pieces into a book manuscript. His subjects were Navajos he knew and traded with, their stories of historic events such as the Long Walk, and descriptions of their culture as he, an outsider without academic training, understood it. Evans's writings were colored by his fondness for, uncommon access to, and friendships with Navajos, and by who he was: a trader, folk artist, and Mormon. He accurately portrayed the operations of a trading post and knew both the material and artistic value of Navajo crafts. His art was mainly inspired by Navajo sandpainting. He appropriated and, no doubt, sometimes misappropriated that sacred art to paint surfaces and objects of all kinds. As a Mormon, he had particular views of who the Navajos were and what they believed and was representative of a large class of often-overlooked traders. Much of the Navajo trade in the Four Corners region and farther west was operated by Mormons. They had a significant historical role as intermediaries, or brokers, between Native and European American peoples in this part of the West. Well connected at the center of that world, Evans was a good spokesperson.


Navaho Trading Days

Navaho Trading Days

Author: Elizabeth Compton Hegemann

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780826309402

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Photos. and text give picture of Navaho life in the period between the two World Wars.


Patterns of Exchange

Patterns of Exchange

Author: Teresa J. Wilkins

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2013-03-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0806186623

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The Navajo rugs and textiles that people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving. The Navajos valued their relationships with Hubbell and others who operated trading posts on their reservation. As a result, they did not always see themselves as exploited victims of a capitalist system. Rather, because of Navajo cultural traditions of gift-giving and helping others, the artists slowly adapted some of the patterns and colors the traders requested into their own designs. By the 1890s, Hubbell and others commissioned paintings depicting particular weaving styles and encouraged Navajo weavers to copy them, reinforcing public perceptions of traditional Navajo weaving. Even the Navajos came to revere certain designs as “the weaving of the ancestors.” Enhanced by numerous illustrations, including eight color plates, this volume traces the intricate play of cultural and economic pressures and personal relationships between artists and traders that guided Navajo weavers to produce textiles that are today emblems of the Native American Southwest. Winner - Multi-cultural Subject, New Mexico Book Awards


The Trading Post System on the Navajo Reservation

The Trading Post System on the Navajo Reservation

Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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The trading post system. History ; The historical role of credit ; The modern trading post ; Legal status of the trader ; Multiple roles of the trader ; Geographical monopoly ; Credit -- Abusive trading practices -- Off-reservation problems -- Responsibility. Bureau of Indian Affairs ; The Navajo tribe ; State action -- Recommendations -- Appendices.


The Case of the Indian Trader

The Case of the Indian Trader

Author: Paul D. Berkowitz

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0826348602

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This is the story of Billy Gene Malone and the end of an era. Malone lived almost his entire life on the Navajo Reservation working as an Indian trader; the last real indian trader to operate historis Hubbell Trading Post. In 2004 the National Park Service (NPS) launched an investigation targeting Malone, alleging a long list of crimes that literally equated him with the likes of Al Capone. A thought-provoking story of the dark side of a respected branch of the American government, The Case of the Indian Trader will open the eyes of a wide audience.


Navajo Trader

Navajo Trader

Author: Gladwell Richardson

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1986-10-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0816545944

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Gladwell "Toney" Richardson came from a long line of Indian traders and published nearly three hundred western novels under pseudonyms like "Maurice Kildare." His forty years of managing trading posts on the Navajo Reservation are now recalled in this colorful memoir.