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Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Navajo Historical Series
Author: Dinétah
Author: Lawrence D. SundbergPublisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 9780865342217
Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A chronicle of the Navajo people describing the hardships and rewards of early band life, and how they dealt with the influences of Spanish, Mexican and American forces.
Navajo Historical Selections
Author: Robert W. YoungPublisher:
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Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Collects stories and articles by Navajos, originally published in Adahoonitigii, the Navajo language monthly newspaper, recording Navajo attitudes and reactions to important events in the history of the Navajo nation.
Navajo historical publications
Author: A History of Navajo Nation Education
Author: Wendy Shelly GreyeyesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816544875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
On the heels of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Diné Education, this important education history explains how the current Navajo educational system is a complex terrain of power relationships, competing agendas, and jurisdictional battles influenced by colonial pressures and tribal resistance. In providing the historical roots to today's challenges, Wendy Shelly Greyeyes clears the path and provides a go-to reference to move discussions forward.
Reclaiming Diné History
Author: Jennifer Nez DenetdalePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816–1894), and his nearly unknown wife, Juanita (1845–1910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of these ancestors, she began to explore her family history as a way of examining broader issues in Navajo historiography. Here she presents a thought-provoking examination of the construction of the history of the Navajo people (Diné, in the Navajo language) that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the Diné past. Reclaiming Diné History has two primary objectives. First, Denetdale interrogates histories that privilege Manuelito and marginalize Juanita in order to demonstrate some of the ways that writing about the Diné has been biased by non-Navajo views of assimilation and gender. Second, she reveals how Navajo narratives, including oral histories and stories kept by matrilineal clans, serve as vehicles to convey Navajo beliefs and values. By scrutinizing stories about Juanita, she both underscores the centrality of women’s roles in Navajo society and illustrates how oral tradition has been used to organize social units, connect Navajos to the land, and interpret the past. She argues that these same stories, read with an awareness of Navajo creation narratives, reveal previously unrecognized Navajo perspectives on the past. And she contends that a similarly culture-sensitive re-viewing of the Diné can lead to the production of a Navajo-centered history.
The Navajo Treaty 1868
Author: Bernhard MichaelisPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781495381850
Category : Fort Sumner (N.M. : Fort)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History comes alive between the pages of this book. It contains the Treaty of 1868 and many other documents, illustrations, maps and photos of the events leading up to this important day in Navajo history. The book draws its content from primary material and gives access to an extended amount of historical resources, that never before have been documented in one publication. Originally addressed to teachers and students of Navajo culture and history in Navajo schools, this expanded edition is now made available to a larger audience and will lead to a better understanding of the Navajo Nation's very painful chapter in history. Includes:* copy of the original hand written Treaty* historical events leading up to the Long Walk * Manuelito's and Jesus Arviso's biography* collected and recorded oral history stories (Hw�eldi Baa Han�)
A History of the Indians of the United States
Author: Angie DeboPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189657
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most intelligent non-Indian Americans have little knowledge of Indian history and affairs those lessons have not taken root. This book is an in-depth historical survey of the Indians of the United States, including the Eskimos and Aleuts of Alaska, which isolates and analyzes the problems which have beset these people since their first contacts with Europeans. Only in the light of this knowledge, the author points out, can an intelligent Indian policy be formulated. In the book are described the first meetings of Indians with explorers, the dispossession of the Indians by colonial expansion, their involvement in imperial rivalries, their beginning relations with the new American republic, and the ensuing century of war and encroachment. The most recent aspects of government Indian policy are also detailed the good and bad administrative practices and measures to which the Indians have been subjected and their present situation. Miss Debo's style is objective, and throughout the book the distinct social environment of the Indians is emphasized—an environment that is foreign to the experience of most white men. Through ignorance of that culture and life style the results of non-Indian policy toward Indians have been centuries of blundering and tragedy. In response to Indian history, an enlightened policy must be formulated: protection of Indian land, vocational and educational training, voluntary relocation, encouragement of tribal organization, recognition of Indians' social groupings, and reliance on Indians' abilities to direct their own lives. The result of this new policy would be a chance for Indians to live now, whether on their own land or as adjusted members of white society. Indian history is usually highly specialized and is never recorded in books of general history. This book unifies the many specialized volumes which have been written about their history and culture. It has been written not only for persons who work with Indians or for students of Indian culture, but for all Americans of good will.
Navajo Historical Publications
Author: The Ramah Navajos
Author: Kendall BlanchardPublisher:
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Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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