Navajo Tribal Council Resolutions, 1922-1951
Author: Navajo Tribal Council
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 752
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Author: Navajo Tribal Council
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 752
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Colleen O'Neill
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2005-10-20
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0700618945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: James F. Downs
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 128
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 764
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ira G. Clark
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 866
ISBN-13: 9780826309235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive reference on the state's most precious resource is now back in print.
Author: Navajo Tribe of Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 706
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James F. Downs
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 534
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Navaho Indians
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCodification of the general and permanent provisions of the resolutions of the Navajo Tribal Council and its Advisory Committee.
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David E. Wilkins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-10-25
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1442226692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative 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.