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Accompanied by contemporary and historical photographs, an account of the U.S. Military's forcible removal of the Navajo to a tiny reservation in east-central New Mexico, hundreds of miles from their traditional homeland, traces the routes of their journey and describes the devastation suffered by the people both along the way and in the camp.
14) The counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: slavery, silver and the U.S. war against the Navajo nation
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"Old Pounder," they called him-- the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito's greatest legacy is measured in lives, not ounces: the scores of Navajo women and children he plucked out of slavery in 1864, the hundreds of exiles he risked everything to feed in 1865 and the thousands of people he helped lead back home in 1868. A remarkable portrait of human resilience, Delgadito's story upends conventional narratives of the West, revealing...
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From the 1930s to the 1960s, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe of people as the Navajos worked, unprotected, in the uranium mines that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Long after these mines were abandoned, Navajos in all four corners of the Reservation (which borders Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona) continued grazing their animals on sagebrush flats riddled with uranium that had been blasted from the ground....
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According to the Navajo Origin Myth, the Genesis of Navajo Religion, the Navajos were created by the Holy People, and were taught by them all of the details of living. Like the Jews of the Old Testament, the Navajo are the Chosen People, Nahasdzaan Bijei the Heart of the World. Their world, the sun, the moon and the stars were created for them, and their way of life was taught to them by Changing Woman, White Shell Woman, and others of the Holy People....
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Who is shaping the future of economic development in Indian Country? Who has a say in tribal economic growth and who benefits? What role do American Indian workers play in shaping how tribal economies and enterprises work? What would it mean to conceive of indigenous self-determination from the vantage point of work and workers? The Work of Sovereignty addresses these vital questions. It explores the political, economic, and cultural forces that structure...
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Challenges the notion that the introduction of market capitalism leads to the destruction of native cultural values. This book instead shows that contact with new markets provided the Navajos with ways to diversify their survival strategies. The author shows that Navajo cultural values were flexible enough to accommodate economic change.
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