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  • Dinéjí Na`nitin

    Navajo Traditional Teachings and History

    "A knowledgeable and sensitive description of some of the basic aspects of traditional Navajo teachings, thought, and language." — Utah Historical QuarterlyTraditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Viewing the Ancestors

    Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom

    Series series New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    The Anaasází people left behind marvelous structures, the ruins of which are preserved at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. But what do we know about these people, and how do they relate to Native nations living in the Southwest today? Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Life in a Corner

    Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1950

    Community building in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah required specialized knowledge and a good bit of determination on the part of settlers who wrested a livelihood from the Colorado Plateau. Robert S. McPherson, the region’s leading historian, draws on oral history and personal archives to write about cowboys and homesteaders, loggers and sawmill operators, law enforcement officers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Traders, Agents, and Weavers

    Developing the Northern Navajo Region

    For travelers passing through northern Navajo country, the desert landscape appears desolate. The few remaining Navajo trading posts, once famous for their bustling commerce, seem unimpressive. Yet a closer look at the economic and creative activity in this region, which straddles northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah, belies a far more interesting picture. In ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • River Flowing From The Sunrise

    An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan

    The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from scientific explorers to busted miners, the San Juan has attracted more attention and fueled more hopes ... Read more

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  • Both Sides of the Bullpen

    Navajo Trade and Posts

    Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural knowledge also changed hands. In Both Sides of the Bullpen, Robert S. McPherson reveals the ways ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Along Navajo Trails

    Recollections of a Trader

    by Will Evans ...
    A piece of Navajo history otherwise forgotten: the first-hand observations of a Mormon trader on the culture and art of his Navajo contemporariesThe overwhelming interest of Will Evans, proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company, in Navajo culture spanned a half century. He shared his enthusiasm through frequent publication of portraits, vignettes, and essays; he also compiled much of his writing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping the Four Corners

    Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875

    Series series American Exploration and Travel Series
    In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors’ diary entries, field ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life

    The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy

    Born in the early 1940s in northern Arizona’s high country desert, Jim Dandy began life imbued with the traditions of the Navajo people. Raised by his father and grandfather—both medicine men—and a grandmother steeped in Navajo practices, he embraced their teachings and followed in their footsteps. But attending the LDS Placement program in northern Utah changed his life’s course when he became a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Popular Music Ethnographies

    Practices, Places and Identities

    Series Book 3 - BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research
    This edited collection offers evocative ways into a range of fascinating worlds of popular music, from the Ecuadorian indie scene to Chinese rock. In exploring the experiences of musicians, fans, industry professionals and academics, the rich complexity of popular music is brought to life through ethnography as an immersive approach to undertaking and communicating research.Experimenting with ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Under the Eagle

    Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

    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 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Both Prayed to the Same God

    Religion and Faith in the American Civil War

    Both Prayed to the Same God is the first book-length, comprehensive study of religion in the Civil War. While much research has focused on religion in a specific context of the civil war, this book provides a needed overview of this vital yet largely forgotten subject of American History. Writing passionately about the subject, Father Robert Miller presents this history in an accessible but ... Read more

    $46.99 USD