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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 ... Leer más

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  • Along Navajo Trails

    Recollections of a Trader

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 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 ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • 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 ... Leer más

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  • 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 ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • 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 ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • 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 ... Leer más

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    She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings—she is the Native American woman.She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted pottery, played field hockey and rode racehorses.Frequently she enjoyed an open and joyous sexuality before marriage; if ... Leer más

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  • Where the Lightning Strikes

    The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places

    de Peter Nabokov ...
    From the author of How the World Moves: A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American IndianFor thousands of years , Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious places in their homelands. In this important book, respected scholar and anthropologist Peter Nabokov writes of a wide ... Leer más

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  • The Bears Ears

    A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness

    de David Roberts ...
    A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument.The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It’s also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone ... Leer más

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