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Author: Peter Iverson Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826327154 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 436
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The most complete and current history of the largest American Indian nation in the U.S., based on extensive new archival research, traditional histories, interviews, and personal observation.
Author: Peter Iverson Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826327154 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 436
Book Description
The most complete and current history of the largest American Indian nation in the U.S., based on extensive new archival research, traditional histories, interviews, and personal observation.
Author: Lawrence D. Sundberg Publisher: Sunstone Press ISBN: 9780865342217 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 100
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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.
Author: Jennifer Nez Denetdale Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816532710 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
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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.
Author: Klara Kelley Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816538743 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 345
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For the first time, a sweeping history of the Diné that is foregrounded in oral tradition. Authors Klara Kelley and Harris Francis share Diné history from pre-Columbian time to the present, using ethnographic interviews in which Navajo people reveal their oral histories on key events such as Athabaskan migrations, trading and trails, Diné clans, the Long Walk of 1864, and the struggle to keep their culture alive under colonizers who brought the railroad, coal mining, trading posts, and, finally, climate change. The early chapters, based on ceremonial origin stories, tell about Diné forebears. Next come the histories of Diné clans from late pre-Columbian to early post-Columbian times, and the coming together of the Diné as a sovereign people. Later chapters are based on histories of families, individuals, and communities, and tell how the Diné have struggled to keep their bond with the land under settler encroachment, relocation, loss of land-based self-sufficiency through the trading-post system, energy resource extraction, and climate change. Archaeological and documentary information supplements the oral histories, providing a comprehensive investigation of Navajo history and offering new insights into their twentieth-century relationships with Hispanic and Anglo settlers. For Diné readers, the book offers empowering histories and stories of Diné cultural sovereignty. “In short,” the authors say, “it may help you to know how you came to be where—and who—you are.”
Author: Samuel Holiday Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806151013 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 281
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Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words. Under the Eagle carries the reader from Holiday’s childhood years in rural Monument Valley, Utah, into the world of the United States’s Pacific campaign against Japan—to such places as Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. Central to Holiday’s story is his Navajo worldview, which shapes how he views his upbringing in Utah, his time at an Indian boarding school, and his experiences during World War II. Holiday’s story, coupled with historical and cultural commentary by McPherson, shows how traditional Navajo practices gave strength and healing to soldiers facing danger and hardship and to veterans during their difficult readjustment to life after the war. The Navajo code talkers have become famous in recent years through books and movies that have dramatized their remarkable story. Their wartime achievements are also a source of national pride for the Navajos. And yet, as McPherson explains, Holiday’s own experience was “as much mental and spiritual as it was physical.” This decorated marine served “under the eagle” not only as a soldier but also as a Navajo man deeply aware of his cultural obligations.
Author: R. Allen Chappell Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781500714772 Category : Ancestral Pueblo culture Languages : en Pages : 0
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Charlie Yazzie and Thomas Begay find themselves caught up in yet another dangerous and intrigue filled adventure on the nations largest Indian reservation. Old and new characters become involved in one of the canyon land's oldest mysteries. Thomas's longtime drinking buddy and Charlie's former archaeology Professor are the target of a ruthless Indian rights movement. Hidden forces are determined to end an investigation that could change the face of an ancient people. Dark secrets are revealed in this fast paced mystery and fascinating culture.Ancient Blood is book number three in the Navajo Nation Mystery series -a stand-alone sequel to the widely acclaimed Navajo Autumn and Boy Madeof Dawn.
Author: Jim Kristofic Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 0826349471 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
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Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexist in a tenuous truce. With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout troop, a fanatical Sunday school teacher, and the author's own experience of sincere friendships that lead to hozho (beautiful harmony), Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of an Anglo boy growing up on and growing to love the Reservation. --publisher's description.
Author: Peter Iverson
Author: Peter Iverson
Author: Lawrence D. Sundberg
Author: Oscar H. Lipps
Author: Jennifer Nez Denetdale
Author: Klara Kelley
Author: Raymond Friday Locke
Author: Ruth Murray Underhill
Author: Samuel Holiday
Author: R. Allen Chappell
Author: Jim Kristofic