Author: Frederick Fay YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Report of an Ethnographic Study and Archeological Review of Proposed Coal Lease Tracts in Northwestern New Mexico
Author: Frederick Fay YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Working the Navajo Way
Author: Colleen O'NeillPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The 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.
Readings in American Indian Law
Author: Jo CarrilloPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566395823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This collection of works many by Native American scholars introduces selected topics in federal Indian law. Readings in American Indian Law covers contemporary issues of identity and tribal recognition; reparations for historic harms; the valuation of land in land claims; the return to tribal owners of human remains, sacred items, and cultural property; tribal governance and issues of gender, democracy informed by cultural awareness, and religious freedom. Courses in federal Indian law are often aimed at understanding rules, not cultural conflicts. This book expands doctrinal discussions into understandings of culture, strategy, history, identity, and hopes for the future. Contributions from law, history, anthropology, ethnohistory, biography, sociology, socio-legal studies, and fiction offer an array of alternative paradigms as strong antidotes to our usual conceptions of federal Indian law. Each selection reveals an aspect of how federal Indian law is made, interpreted, implemented, or experienced. Throughout, the book centers on the ever present and contentious issue of identity. At the point where identity and law intersect lies an important new way to contextualize the legal concerns of Native Americans. Author note: Jo Carrillo is Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where she is on leave from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Navajo Country
Author: Joseph C. WinterPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
American Indian Quarterly
Author: The Geography of Nature
Author: Paul Kenneth RoebuckPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Kayenta Anasazi Archaeology and Navajo Ethnohistory on the Northwestern Shonto Plateau
Author: Alan R. SchroedlPublisher:
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
From Clovis to Comanchero
Author: Jack L. HofmanPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
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