Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States: Navajos in Arizona and New Mexico
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 972
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 972
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 978
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Linda S Cordell
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1483267202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies in Anthropology: The Versatility of Kinship focuses on the dynamics involved in the special class of interpersonal ties that bind individuals to others. The selection first offers information on the variant usage in American kinship, uses of kinship in Kwaio, Solomon Islands, and incest and kinship structure. Discussions focus on incest categories in Cachama and Mamo, childhood bonds and adult residence, kinship with the dead, kinship, social identities, and behavior, and models of relatedness. The text then explores the biological, linguistic, and cultural aspects of the Hopi-Tewa system of mating in First Mesa, Arizona and the Navajo exogamic rules and preferred marriages. The publication ponders on the Kpelle negotiation of marriage and matrilateral ties and kinship and descent in the ethnic reassertion of the Eastern Creek Indians. Topics include social and cultural history, genealogy as social instrument, crystallization of the Eastern Creek community, Kpelle marriage and matrilateral ties, ethnographic background, and the negotiation of marriage and matrilateral ties. The selection is a valuable reference for anthropologists, sociologists, and readers interested in the dynamics of kinship.
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Friend Aberle
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 504
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marsha Weisiger
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011-11-15
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0295803193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Diné) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s -- when hundreds of thousands of sheep, goats, and horses were killed -- was an ambitious attempt by the federal government to eliminate overgrazing on an arid landscape and to better the lives of the people who lived there. Instead, the policy was a disaster, resulting in the loss of livelihood for Navajos -- especially women, the primary owners and tenders of the animals -- without significant improvement of the grazing lands. Livestock on the reservation increased exponentially after the late 1860s as more and more people and animals, hemmed in on all sides by Anglo and Hispanic ranchers, tried to feed themselves on an increasingly barren landscape. At the beginning of the twentieth century, grazing lands were showing signs of distress. As soil conditions worsened, weeds unpalatable for livestock pushed out nutritious native grasses, until by the 1930s federal officials believed conditions had reached a critical point. Well-intentioned New Dealers made serious errors in anticipating the human and environmental consequences of removing or killing tens of thousands of animals. Environmental historian Marsha Weisiger examines the factors that led to the poor condition of the range and explains how the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Navajos, and climate change contributed to it. Using archival sources and oral accounts, she describes the importance of land and stock animals in Navajo culture. By positioning women at the center of the story, she demonstrates the place they hold as significant actors in Native American and environmental history. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country is a compelling and important story that looks at the people and conditions that contributed to a botched policy whose legacy is still felt by the Navajos and their lands today.
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 304
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 404
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